• By Nick Douglas
    May 23, 2006 7:32 PM 696
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    Valleywag PSA: Fight social bookmark icon pollution

    Just like TechCrunch addiction and Pastel Yellow Fever, social bookmark icon pollution is everybody's problem in this Web 2.0 world. In the form of long chains of social bookmark links on every post — "Digg this! Del.icio.us this! Reddit this!" — it has claimed so many bloggers as its victims:

    And services like the blogger social bookmarking tool only feed the frenzy, enabling icon dumps like this:

    Shameful. Do your part, bloggers. Stand up against bookmark icon pollution. Just pick one successful bookmark service (hint: not Kinja) and link discreetly — or don't link at all. One does hope that anyone constantly bookmarking sites, can do so without your help.

    With everyone's effort, we can make the world a less Web-2.0-cluttered place — a place our children can blog in.

    Blogger social bookmarking tool [Social Front]


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