Today I’ve been messing around with my blog, creating a social button WordPress Plugin. Determined to make better use of the sites I’m working with, and filtering out the noise that I’m not interested in.

So, as you will see at the top and bottom of this post, I’ve now got buttons for the following:

• RSS
• Delicious
• Twitter
• Reddit
• StumbleUpon
• Technorati
• Dzone

For most people the lack of Digg button will probably ring alarm bells in many heads… I can understand that, but when I look at my stats for the past 2 months, you’d understand why. A mere 0.8% of all traffic to this site comes from Digg, despite posting the same articles there that I post everywhere else – particularly in their “Programming” section. I also received an email from the DZone owners last Friday which stated:

“Digg’s programming-related topics have been dead for more than a year”

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