I'm trying out a new experiment on the site by adding "Digg This" buttons to (some of) the stories. One difference between these buttons and the over-saturation of these social bookmarking buttons on so many sites is that rather than link to any content on this site, I'm trying to connect to the external story as it already exists on Digg.
For example: I recently posted this story from the Independent on the "Methane Time Bomb" (a global warming positive feedback mechanism caused by methane releases from melting permafrost) and then checked Digg to see if the story was already posted. It was, so I simply added the Digg URL into my post and added the button to the news item. Another post on the "Global Security Bubble" hadn't been posted yet on Digg so I submitted my writeup to Digg and added the resulting Digg URL back into the post.
My hope is that this experiment will have some modest impact on improving the visibility of these stories and ideas through the much broader network of Digg. I'm also interested in seeing how smaller sites such as this one can co-exist with Digg by focusing on a tiny subset of the news stream.
If you're already an active Digg user, please follow me at "http://digg.com/users/schnippy"
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Submitted by Greg Schnippel on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 23:24.