Quoted: Google's on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we've heard from ...

Quoted: Fewer than 1 million people visited Mixx last month, less than 5% of the traffic that competitor Digg saw. Given the circumstances, Mixx's glaring lack of success to date calls a number of things about this industry into question.

Redot.

Quoted: Valleywag reports that the social news site, a frequent acquisition gossip item, might really be getting sold this time around.

Quoted: In this era of fragmented audiences, with newspaper journalism feeling the pressure of blogs and the Internet more generally, the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) undertook a study comparing mainstream media coverage of news with user-driven news and content sites Digg, Del.icio.us, and Reddit.

Was curious about traffic to The New York Times website.

Quoted: "The New York Times site (which has some articles behind the TimesSelect pay wall) attracted a unique audience of 12,960,000 users in February, who combined for 455,527,000 page views."

In comparison (from http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_digg_really_more_popular_than_facebook.php ), Digg has 1/2 the page views but 2x the number of visitors.

This is kinda surprising. But, as pointed out in the comments, users spend much more time on Facebook: 12:56 per visit as opposed to only 1:47 on Digg.

Quoted: I find it all hard to believe - not only that digg has 22 Million monthly unique visitors, but also that they have more monthly unique visitors than Facebook. digg is still a very techie user base, whereas Facebook is seemingly far more mainstream. Or is it?

Kevin Rose on the Digg HD-DVD key fiasco.

Quoted: But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories or comments containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be.

redotted from eric: Help Blue Dot's newest blogging feature get picked up on Digg! Please go and vote for it!

Quoted: * # of servers Digg had at launch: 1 (rented)
* # of servers Digg has today: 103
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* # of stories submitted the first week: 923
* # of stories submitted last week: 15,412
* # of stories submitted (all-time): 1,001,865