Boredom and aesthetic revulsion.
I mean look at this site! Those social bookmarking links work like a charm; not only have I gotten Digged (Dug?) and Stumbled several times (gee, sounds like typical Saturday night round these parts, actually) I’ve gotten on several news services I ain’t never heered of. Of which I ain’t never heered.
We’re extremely correct here on the ol’ raincoaster blog, yo.
But as I was saying, those blogs are a PIA to format and paste in every damn time, easily adding 15 tedious minutes to the posting process, 15 minutes that could be better spent leaving snarky comments asking whether the Gawker Twin Hermiones really think tedious didacticism is the future of blogging, or whether Boris Johnson is ever going to answer my question…despite the meaninglessness of those activities, they’re still more laden with numinosity than formatting social bookmark links.
Besides which, I’m not sure they all work. Do let me know; what’s the point of famewhoring inefficiently?
At some point I suppose I’ll become technologically sophisticated enough to steal some buttons for the links, but until that happy day this blog is going to look like a desperate, clawing catfight of text-based famewhoring. I’m not sure even I think that’s worth it.
raincoaster 
Just an FYI…I’m the one who suggested you to StumbleUpon.
:-)
don’t say I never do nuttin’ for ya!
I rarely know what you are on about raincoaster , in this blog that is, otherwise I understand you . I find it entertaining when I do. To me endless links are superfluous and to time consuming for the subject matter . I like you own voice
Just my opinion, don`t get all shirty.
Thank you, Lori. All boosts mucho appreciato or however you spell that.
newmania, the links I’m talking about here are the ones that I’m putting at the bottom of every post, not the ones embedded in the text of the post itself. Those ones are meaningful; the ones at the bottom are just to recommend the post to a news site like Fark.com.