Nix the share buttons on news sites?

Intriguing debate about whether those share icons on sites for Digg, Twitter, etc. do any good. I have to say I’ve never once used them, though I share the old-fashioned way via  copy-paste all the time, as I did with this Poynter post. 

There’s something to be said for minimizing distracting junk on web sites, and most news sites are an embarrassment of such crap. Newsrooms need to take a hard look at their button analytics. You want people to share your work? Produce great stuff. Period. Anything — anything — that distracts from your great journalism belongs on the trash heap.  

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  1. mediahacker said: Journalists and tech-pros sometimes overestimate people’s computer-skills. Copy-pasting a URL is still not straightforward for lots of people, let alone using a URL shortener. Buttons make news-sharing easy for everyone, regardless of skill-level.
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    Most of the time a journalist puts a question mark in a title it’s safe to infer that their answer is no. In this case,...
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