[Linda Buquet]

Social bookmarking sites are NOT for blog pinging. If everyone starts doing that then it will ruin the whole thing and no one will read bookmarkings sites anymore cuz they are all filled with blog spam.

Just like when people start digging all their own articles - people tune out and no one reads them anymore. Social bookmarks are designed for things that are WORTH a bookmark.

So when you write a blog entry think - is this REALLY so good, REALLY so important that if it were on a STRANGERS SITE - I would book mark it so I can get back to read it again??? Most of the time you'd have to say no!

When I say I use Onlywire I should say I HAVE used it. But I only use it VERY infrequently and only when I write something thats BIG news that I think lots of people would want to know about. I haven't done it for about 6 weeks even though I feel a lot of my blogs are bookmarkable. Just feel like doing it more often would be spamming.

I guess when I said interesting concept I was thinking of it this way. If there was a group of GOOD bloggers who let each other know every now and then when they had a really good, important or resource-filled post and said bookmark me and I'll bookmark you next time you write a GOOD one - that would be cool. Sort of a social blog ring, if you will...

Invite your Yahoo group over to read this and jump into the discussion. Would love to hear their thoughts!