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title: "Status And The Social Bookmarker"
date: 2006-08-02
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Status And The Social Bookmarker

Tom Wolfe could write a novel [about this](https://web.archive.org/web/20091001190224/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=250)…or at least a short story.

![netscape status](https://web.archive.org/web/20091001190224im_/http://static.flickr.com/69/205248649_96c20b7c11.jpg) Cartoon [**by Oliver Widder**](https://web.archive.org/web/20091001190224/http://geekandpoke.blogspot.com/2006/07/top-social-bookmarker.html), via [Nick Carr’s comments](https://web.archive.org/web/20091001190224/http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/08/few_to_many.php).

Jason Calacanis [also notes](https://web.archive.org/web/20091001190224/http://www.calacanis.com/2006/08/02/the-truth-shall-make-you-free/): “I think we have three of the top 20 DIGG users (and two from the top 10!). We also hired from Newsvine, delicious, and Reddit top users.”

Finally here’s a more [serious graphic](https://web.archive.org/web/20091001190224/http://diggtrends.com/stats.aspx?entry=27), that shows just how long the Digg tail is:

![digg long tail](https://web.archive.org/web/20091001190224im_/http://static.flickr.com/87/205253057_fcf50bfeaf.jpg?v=0)Source: Diggtrends

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/status_and_the.php))*