davedolan.com

Ok, I’m a sort of almost a blogger, and I write things that sometimes roughly resemble blog postings. I admit it takes a certain level of vanity to do that. I like to think I’m not being too ridiculous, and I admit that I only have a very narrow crowd of people who even care what I have to say… Most of them are people I collaborate on projects with, or people who look at it to be nice to me… but certain websites in the endless pursuit of, I’m not sure what, are getting ridiculous today. It’s vain enough to put a ‘Slashdot this!’ or ‘Digg It!’ widget on your page, but if you’re ’sort of a big deal’ then I guess that makes sense. HOWEVER, things can quickly get out of hand, and I kid you not, I actually saw this on a real live site…

Great Idea! That’s right, for your convenience, you can digg it, facebook it, del.icio.us it, newsvine it, stumbleupon it, reddit, yahoo it, fark it, technorati it, furl it, ma.gnolia it, embed it in your site, or just spam the hell out of your closest friends. All with the click of a button. Brilliant! But still a little too much work for me.

I’m going to invent my own button. I’ll put it at the bottom of my posts and sign up for adsense… I’ll call it ‘Give Me Ad Revenue!’, and it will do all of those things with one click. It’s honest, straight to the point, and best of all, it saves you the trouble of clicking on all of the buttons individually. How Convenient!