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Indeed. I see lots of that, and it's just a distraction at best.
I'm not so sure social bookmarking is a passing fad.
To some like me, it's an essential. I live out my del.icio.us account.
But, I tend not to use Digg at all. And I can't say that I've ever used Reddit or StumbleUpon.
But enough people do.
So-called 'ad-blindness' is the biggie, though. That's goin' nowhere!
Wayne, perhaps I was being a little too pessimistic to assume that social bookmarking is but a passing fad, it is probably as much a passing fad, as blogging itself. That said, it's unlikely to stay exactly as it is now for too much longer. Just as we had informaiton overload with the first waves of websites a decade ago and that steadily grew until social bookmarking emerged almost inevitably, so too the overload we are now seeing in other people's choices will be superseded by another wave, what that might be one can only guess, but buzzwords like mash and social search tools are likely to play a role in the inevitable. We might see a lot of mergers of SB sites in the next year or two, or someone might come up with the next stage that is equally as novel as social bookmarking was just a couple of years ago.
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Well, data mining is getting better, so the AI knows sort of what we like.
Out of that, we might only need to make a few selections of what we like and then the rest is harvested.
And from a task-based point of view -- say you're a researcher, for example -- then you might need to only define a topic and outline and then the software mines the web for the data.
BTW: given that I've read of other people devaluing the Digg-effect, how long before the search engines do, too?
After all, their purpose is to mimic our own, is it not?
Dry whit & sarcastic tongue-in-cheek humour seems not to travel too well.
Never mind, David!
I wonder if there have been any studies done on the benefits vs. drawbacks on social bookmarking.
It seems that everyone wants to jump on a band wagon just so they're not the last one's to join, even if they don't know whether it works.
I don't think there is anyway I could have reached 2000 RSS subscribers in 6 months without Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon.
...that aside, the post was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
On the other hand, when you start a blog and no one, really no one, is reading it, you'ld do anything just to get get a couple of visitors through the door.
This is a great post. Although I have had spikes of traffic from Digg and Stumble, I have learned to realize, those traffic levels don't last. With that being said, my traffic does seem to level off, at a higher level, than before the spikes.
I have done some Stumbling, and a little "Digg"ing, but find it takes me away from providing good content for my blogs. With a family, full time job, and two blogs, SB is still on the back burner for me.
I'm curious though, do you think SB will go away, or transition into some other type of cyberspace social medium?
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Good point though. This post, as you'll have realised was a deliberate car crash waiting to happen, and there's already a pile up occurring in the counterflow traffic...
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Reminds me of that famous Homer Simpson quote: “Trying is the first step to failure.”
Many web hosts now offer "traffic surge protection" to handle the Digg effect. My experience is that although a Digg surge is short-lived, there is often a residual effect of viewers that enjoy your site and return for future visits. Most bloggers will see a persistent traffic increase with each Digg surge. Hence, it's important to understand how to use social news sites to your blog's advantage.
Funny article, though, made me LOL.
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