So think twice before badgering readers with āvote for meā pleas. The hectoring is tiresome, it results in extraneous visual noise, it makes your site look cheap, and the benefits are dubious at best.
Great post from 37 Signals about the increasing spread of all those ādigg/whatever me iconsā in blogs.
Instead, focus on delivering great content. If you do, people will figure out how to spread the word just fine.
And that's maybe the reason, why it's a little bit quite here lately, no āgreat contentā to deliver :) Because we're all very busy currently. But that will hopefully change soon.