In this article tripwire magazine provides a tutorial on how the jQuery based Social Bookmarking Counters on the site was created. Most people are generally busy and this means that readers on a blog or website don’t time to waste on articles that are not really good. The main principle in web 2.0 and social services is to leverage upon the opinion of the community. Showing the post popularity on services that most of your users use will provide them with voulnable information when quick decisions on what to read next has to be made. I believe this kind of functionality is good and I also see it used in different variations on more and more blogs.