[scribkin] Return of the Bookmark Badge

Return of the Bookmark Badge

May 15, 2008 – 3:13 pm

Recently, I received an email from Pat (also known as MicroPat on Twitter), the creator of Add to Any. He wrote my webmaster account to let me know that he had found my article on ShareThis and Add to Any’s interaction with the Snap! service, and was looking in to it.

I decided to take the time out to write a reply documenting why I eventually chose not to use any bookmarking tags on my site. I had about 4 reasons. I have also stopped using Snap! just because people found it annoying.

Pat was nice enough to reply with a well-reasoned point-by-point discussion.

The upshot of that conversation was that I decided to give Add to Any another shot, but I am limiting the button to only appear when the full article is opened. The way the button is implemented keeps it out of my RSS feed (this is very important to me, apparently part of WP’s bad feed handling and something the ShareThis plugin does), and also gives me usage stats directly in Google Analytics.

I also added a new voting question in the sidebar asking if you like bookmarking buttons or not. I’d like to hear from you!

If you have any additional thoughts on this topic please feel free to share them in the comments here.