A typical story on a social-media-centric site like the Huffington Post or Mashable is inevitably accompanied by about forty "share via" buttons. You'll be able to share via Twitter, Facebook, email, Digg, Reddit, Morse code, carrier pigeon, and hand-delivered engraved stone hieroglyph. Those buttons are important--they feed content into those social networks/archaic communication forms, which gets more people reading them, because there's more content. It's a circular process--more content...
Published on April 14, 2010 01:56