October 12, 2008 at 10:23 pm
With digg on a mission to eliminate many top users, Mixx is seeing some serious gains in traffic and registered users. Generally speaking, that’s a Good Thing. As a fairly early adopter on Mixx, I’m glad to see new faces and new energy on the site. It feels like there’s some momentum when you spend time on Mixx these days.
But it also seems like the only thing people want to talk about these days on mixx is … digg. Here’s what the Popular page looked like a few minutes ago:
I think Tamar said it well last week:
There’s too much f—ing Digg commentary everywhere on Mixx. As community members (obviously not as Mixx representatives), your marketing message is too much “stop using Digg and go to Mixx instead.” … [There's] nothing that actually talks about Mixx’s strengths (besides community and besides the fact that it is not Digg — which you can tell is not a strong enough reason by itself to be a self-sustaining community).
I’ve made no secret that I love Mixx. But enough with the digg talk. Can we all move on now and figure out what we are and stop talking about what we’re not? Thx.
August 11, 2008 at 8:36 pm
If you ever find a story online about girls and animé, submit it.
June 18, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Guess who hit the digg home page again? 
Here’s what I’ve posted to various social sites in the last day or so.
mixx
digg
Sphinn
June 10, 2008 at 12:13 am
Been a bit busy the past few days working on my U2 book, but had some time today to get more involved on mixx, digg, sphinn, etc. Here’s what I shared over the past 24 hours or so.
mixx
digg
Sphinn
Not a single iPhone story submitted. But I did vote for a couple. And I do plan to buy the new one next month. But you knew that….
May 29, 2008 at 12:24 am
Look who finally had a chance to play in the social media sandbox today. Yep. Moi. Found lots of (IMO) good content. Here’s what I shared on various sites in the past 24 hours or so:
mixx
digg
Sphinn
Busy, busy, wasn’t I? Also submitted a bunch to StumbleUpon, but let’s not start listing those….
May 12, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Found myself a good Interweb connection today and had some last-day-of-vacation fun by playing around on my fave social sites while it rained all day long. Here’s what I submitted over the past 24 hours or so:
mixx
digg
Sphinn
There ya go.
April 29, 2008 at 12:13 am
Lookie who got on the digg home page today:
That doesn’t happen every day, so pardon me while I gloat a little. (Here’s the digg story URL.) In fact, it’s only the third time I’ve put a story on the home page. But this an interesting study in headline writing:
I submitted the same article to mixx, but used the boring headline that came straight from the Dallas Morning News article: “White House candidates offer plans to curb high gas prices”. I changed the title when I submitted to digg, came up with something much more interesting — a better hook — and the thing took off like wildfire. So, next time you read about the importance of writing attention-getting headlines for social media … listen to that advice.
One More Thing…
Speaking of social media, I wrote a guest post today for the Social Media Mom blog. You can read it here:
Guest Post by Social Media Dad, Matt McGee from the Matt McGee Blog
If you read it, let me know what you think. Is 10-years-old too young to start blogging?
April 28, 2008 at 12:46 am
Slowly getting back on the horse after a week of too much travel. Here’s what I shared on various social media sites in the past day or so:
digg
mixx
Sphinn
April 16, 2008 at 12:03 am
Here I go again, forgetting to do this often enough. One of these days I’ll get my act together…until then, here’s what I’ve shared on various social media sites in the past 24 hours (or so).
digg
mixx
Sphinn
Kinda busy day, all things considered…
April 3, 2008 at 12:04 am
Been a while since I’ve done a roundup post. Need to be more consistent.
mixx
digg
Sphinn
And that’s all….
