{"id":1952,"date":"2007-11-25T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T22:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/25\/of-digg-refugees-and-mixx\/"},"modified":"2007-11-25T17:22:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-25T22:22:44","slug":"of-digg-refugees-and-mixx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/25\/of-digg-refugees-and-mixx\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Digg &#8220;refugees&#8221; and Mixx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like my friends Mark Evans &#8212; who has mentioned it in comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robhyndman.com\/2007\/11\/24\/an-increasing-amount-of-frustration\/\">Rob Hyndman&#8217;s post<\/a> and on TechCrunch &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepjiveinterests.com\/2007\/11\/24\/the-power-of-techmeme-over-bloggers-is-pretty-astounding\/\">Tony Hung<\/a> of DJI, I am puzzled by Mike Arrington&#8217;s post on Mixx and how &#8220;Digg refugees&#8221; are making it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/11\/24\/digg-refugees-may-be-heading-to-mixx\/\">their destination<\/a> of choice. Digg refugees? I must have missed a memo somewhere. I know that there are all kinds of people who regularly get mad at Digg, but I wasn&#8217;t aware that there was a mass exodus.<\/p>\n<p>I know that Mike only says that those who are dissatisfied with Digg &#8220;may&#8221; be heading to Mixx, but he sure makes it sound like a done deal. Why? Who knows. Slow news day in the blogosphere maybe? Mike says that Digg users &#8220;are showing an increasing amount of frustration with the Digg community, and many are leaving.&#8221; An increasing amount of frustration? That&#8217;s news to me too. And are many of the top Diggers really leaving? Mike mentions one: Greg Davies, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/nowsourcing.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/02\/life-after-digg-interview-with-a-banned-top-digger\/\">interviewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The only other evidence I can find for what Mike is saying comes <a href=\"http:\/\/social-bookmarking-seo.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/active-diggers-mixxing-it-up.html\">from this post<\/a>, which I can&#8217;t help but notice comes from a blog that claims to specialize in &#8220;social media SEO.&#8221; I&#8217;m not saying &#8212; I&#8217;m just saying. And even that one says that many of the top Diggers mentioned having left Digg, and haven&#8217;t even posted anything at Mixx. They&#8217;re just &#8220;checking it out.&#8221; Meanwhile, Mike admits that Mixx&#8217;s traffic is <a href=\"http:\/\/siteanalytics.compete.com\/mixx.com+digg.com\/?metric=uvhttp:\/\/siteanalytics.compete.com\/mixx.com+digg.com\/?metric=uv\">virtually zero<\/a> compared to Digg. Why bother with the post then?<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like my friends Mark Evans &#8212; who has mentioned it in comments on Rob Hyndman&#8217;s post and on TechCrunch &#8212; and Tony Hung of DJI, I am puzzled by Mike Arrington&#8217;s post on Mixx and how &#8220;Digg refugees&#8221; are making it their destination of choice. Digg refugees? I must have missed a memo somewhere. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/25\/of-digg-refugees-and-mixx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of Digg &#8220;refugees&#8221; and Mixx&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}