Iconization 300809

The old known bookmarks, have quickly surpassed a few early stages of evolution in a very short time. One such remarkable stage is called 'the age of social bookmarking'. Few are those people who are in the process of acquaintance to this term. If you are one of those...it's good to know that, 'you surely will catch up to the fast pace of this ever-growing web world and it's treasure of invention'; I say this because I believe, you possess the thirst of gaining knowledge. So what is social bookmarking? For a quick info on what it is, check out Jim Vennemeyer's blogpost. Today there are a plenty of sites which provide this service of social bookmarking, like digg, reddit, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us etc.

As a devoted blogger I would like to point you to some really 'info-juicy' links were you can get a clean picture of how to make use of social bookmarking phenomenon on blogger, check that out at Danny Douglass's blogpost.

As a Graphics Designer, I prefer self designed stuff over others, so when I thought of putting up some social bookmarking icons (buttons), I naturally thought of designing a nice set of those, Still there are plenty of really cool social bookmarking icons available (for free) on the Internet,  you can simply Google for 'social bookmarking icons'  and you will get them. I have finished designing some 23 odd icons (PNGs) & wish to share those with you. It may be possible that some of you would like to see few specific icons of social bookmarking sites which I have not provided here...so if that is the case, just let me know your requirements through comments & I'll design those buttons for.

So here is the link to the Icon Set named ICONIZATION_300809.

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Iconization 160709

Over the recent past I have been observing this trend...that is, people like to find those things on the Internet which are simpler, readable and most importantly 'short' ; for an instance if someone comes across a blog which has loads of text and no images or Graphical Conveying Media elements then, he or she might simply scroll down and exit. On the other hand if a blog contains few text (no long sentences and no paragraphs at all), bolder letters, and loads of GCMe or Graphical Conveying Media elements then he or she might very well stay on the blog post and further, if liked will bookmark or simply right click on an image and click 'save image as'.

I believe this factor should be taken into consideration, especially by those who want to build large readers or those who aim at monetizing. But I might not agree with this factor in case if someone simply wants to speak the heart out...then one won't like to keep the word count low. Isn't it!

With nexus to this 'keep your word count low' factor for blogging, I recently came across a similar kind of blog  which read 'a photo blog'... The idea is really catchy...post a series of pictures/ photos, which weave a nice story (well, I think 'story-fying' shouldn't  be compulsive factor though!). But isn't it really cool & easy like that, just scroll through the picture stream and get to know the idea...& this is quick 'light-weight' for our eyes. I think I'll try that some day :-)

As of now I have something very shareable for you...icons, and all the icons(.ico) which I am publishing in this post, are designed by me. Just as a reminder that "energenesis" is a place where I will share my creative side with the likes of people like you, who have interest in Design & Creativity...or those who have an eye of appreciation for good design.

So here is the link to the icon-set named ICONIZATION_160709. (note: The number after the title of the icon set is the date in d/m/y format)

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