Introducing the Yes! Button

As a blogger, it is incredibly encouraging to feel that something you have written is reaching people. Every comment I receive on this blog, even the negative ones, is an encouragement to me because I know someone felt like what I have to offer was worth their time to read. It's an honor, really.

In turn, I try to be the kind of blog reader I hope will visit my blog; someone who comments whenever I read a post I like, even if it's just to say I enjoyed it. But commenting isn't easy. Sometimes I just want to read a blog like I read a magazine, without feeling the need to respond. Often jumping through the hoops of posting a comment just to say "cool" isn't worth the time and effort.

So today I want to try something new, something I hope will make it dirt-simple for folks who read this blog to let me know what they like. It's called the Yes! button. It's at the bottom of every one of my posts, and it looks like this:

This button is a one-click way to tell me you read a post, and you liked it. That's it. The button doesn't share the post on Facebook, or tweet it, or "plus one" it, or email it, or tell your mom and Mark Zuckerberg that you read it. It's just a little tally that sends me some love.

So if you like a post you read here, it would be just awesome if you clicked "Yes!"—and even more awesome if you left a comment. Heck if you wanna go crazy you could go back to a past post you liked and click "Yes!" on that too. I leave it to you.

Image: Artotem