{"id":1356,"date":"2010-01-27T05:18:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T10:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2010-01-23T08:30:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T13:30:50","slug":"the-power-of-social-bookmarking-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2010\/01\/27\/the-power-of-social-bookmarking-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Social Bookmarking Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I am not a big embracer of social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit, but I may need to rethink my position on these services. This past week I got an incredible amount of traffic on my blog and many, many comments on one fairly innocuous blog post. I was mystified over the traffic and wondered what had caused the spike.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, in one of the comments left by a reader the mystery was solved. My blog post was bookmarked and made it to the home page of Reddit, a social bookmarking site. 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