I don't normally cross-post blog entries, but I figured this one was appropriate for the SEOmoz crowd. About two weeks ago I made a couple funny sketches of what social media websites would look like if they were all sitting around together.
If you haven't already seen it I highly recommend checking it out. Most of the office was in hysterics when they saw my depiction of Digg.
I drew these mostly because I was killing time before my vacation to Maui; I didn't expect such a huge reaction. The Digg crowd was surprisingly positive, some of the comments could even be described as glowing (weird, I know. I guess to appeal to diggers you have to insult them first). One of the co-founders of Reddit even emailed me and asked if he could use my sketch as the Reddit logo for a day, which I of course agreed to. I'm a huge fan of Reddit; I've found the quality of content and community on reddit to be far superior to Digg. Having my drawing up there as well as having them send me a Reddit shirt was very, very awesome
By: Oatmeal
Cross-Post: Social Media Websites in Illustrated Form
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You’re talented, Oatmeal. Your characters really capture the spirits of the sites. Now how about a SEOmoz character?
It's amazing how much the Diggers loved that. They just ate it up. Awesome job for an non-caffeineated day before vacation!
I think that the quality of Digg is now peaking or has already peaked, and I agree that Reddit is much more sophisticated at the moment. In the future I predict that many different social media niche sites will be adopted by different markets and mentalities - rather than one or two sites becoming dominant.
Rounded corners, rounded corners, yay! Great illustrations. I got a good laugh out of them.
hah, it's all about square corners these days
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Great drawing! Your quite talented. It's awesome that the Digger loved your drawing so much. I do too.
That was just BRILLIANT! *giggles*
No one here understood why I laughed out loud - lucky I wasn't drinking at the time!
Thanks Matt. Definitely funny. My favorits are Digg and Slashdot.
I think diggers do like humor so even though it was making fun of them they would still like it. And of course drivl doesn't have the letters 'S,' 'E,' or 'O' in there so that must have helped too.
Java the Digg?? I love it! Errr... I wonder if this'll improve our reputation around there?!
Now that preaches everything that is unique and relevant content!
I liked Digg's sketch best! Well done getting out there with your stuff.
Love the Digg sketch! I vote for it to be their new logo. Who's with me?!
love the desperate slashdot :)