You see the buttons seemingly everywhere. I'm not one for lots of social media buttons and whatnot, and I used Sociable for about 10 seconds before deciding it wasn't worth the effort. I just don't like endless buttons. Simple, that's my claim to fame. And uncrowded, too.

The thing that turned me off of Digg was just how large it has become. That, and the zillions of buttons, tabs, and WordPress widgets I see everywhere, enticing you to "Digg this!" I figured it was just the Diggian Overlords impressing their will on the masses.

I saw a friend who had her links messed up, and I wondered what she was doing wrong. I had no idea there wasn't an official way of doing this in the wild, so I figured I'd figure out how to do it myself.

Here's the code (unlike usual, I'm sticking it in copy-and-paste-friendly text box):

Digg this!

That'll give you that neat "Digg this!" text link you can stick anywhere in your template. See how you can add some extra image-y goodness to it from Christian Spanring. Movable Type version from Phin.

status: published
lastmod: '2006-11-17T21:09:49.000Z'
author: John Stansbury
cms: wordpress
custom:
  podPressPostSpecific: 'a:6:{s:15:"itunes:subtitle";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:14:"itunes:summary";s:15:"##PostExcerpt##";s:15:"itunes:keywords";s:17:"##WordPressCats##";s:13:"itunes:author";s:10:"##Global##";s:15:"itunes:explicit";s:7:"Default";s:12:"itunes:block";s:7:"Default";}'
  similarterms: digg title rsquo center code bodytext mtentryexcerpt vittles extra topic news offbeat christian type simple wordpress phin version movable mtentrytitle
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