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Wired News: "Iconistan" Region Under Blog Posts Increasingly Crowded

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 12, 2006 - 2:36pm.
San Francisco - Wired News on Tuesday reported on the increasingly lucrative real estate at the bottom of blog posts, where icons for various social news and community sites are located.

This "Iconistan" is currently populated by links to Digg, del.icio.us and similar sites, which bloggers add essentially to drive traffic back from those sites back to their original posts.

"Publishers need to develop some criteria to follow whenever they want to put another link on the page," Sphere CEO Tony Conrad, who coined the term "Iconistan," told Wired News. "The author probably shouldn't put another link there if it detracts from the user experience."

Related Links:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,72282-0.html
tags: Blogs | Sphere | Wired News | Iconistan |

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