DISQUS

chimneydials · 1 year ago

I agree with you on "Either way, I don’t see what there is to be gained by picking one social tool over the others." In the end, after any social media becomes big, it will eventually become like Digg. So, the only way to create a better social media site is to have something that is completely open, transparent and owned by the community.

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Adam Metz · 1 year ago

Matt, you may want to leave a comment on Exclamation this morning.

Corey · 1 year ago

I'd take a bit of a different view. I think it's great that newspaper companies are finally trying to establish themselves on the Web in a real way – beyond their own sites and content. If you pull back a bit and just look at the fact that newspapers are finally getting involved in investing in Web-based properties, that's fairly exciting.

mathewi · 1 year ago

I think you are right, Corey -- and I believe Adam made the same point
on the Exclamation blog at LaunchSquad. I definitely think it's good
to see a paper like the LA Times thinking about and getting involved
in social media -- I'm just not sure that an investment in Mixx makes
a whole lot of sense, that's all.

digidave · 1 year ago

More annoying than that: Mixx is going to highlight LA Times articles in their search results - as an active social bookmarker - I find that offensive.

mathewi · 1 year ago

I agree, Dave. I can see why the paper would want that (and I'm sure
that's part of the reason for the investment) but I think it
denigrates the quality or trustworthiness of the overall index.

Edith Far · 1 year ago

Actually, mixx.com refutes the conclusion that Matt Marshall made about the deal between mixx and LATimes. I think Marshall performed some pretty amateurish reporting from a guy that claims to be a journalist. Rule one is don't publish anything but facts. Marshall didn't bother to confirm what mixx was doing with search results. Since then, it spread across the blogosphere when its JUST wrong. People who blogged this incorrectly SHOULD go back and publish a retraction but hey, that would be responsible journalism. So David Cohn, are you correcting your mis-statments? or leaving them out there?

I love Mixx, the mixx experience. I found a nice home there after getting banned without explanation from Digg. They respond to feedback and listen to their users!

Edith Far · 1 year ago

BTW, I think maybe the LATimes (and a LOT of other people) would like to travel back in time and invest in Digg while the getting was good--if this pays off and Mixx grows to get even half the size of Digg, they will make a nice bit o cash. After all, aren't they saying Digg could sell for 300 million? It didn't say that LATimes gave mixx money. so it sounds pretty low-risk from them, and the payoff could be huge. I gues time will tell