I am a pretty big supporter of blogcatalog.com and recently while on mixx.com I came across this interview with them.
Just wanted to share because I thought it was a good read.
The Blog Catalog Team Speaks….

When you examine social media how much of it is about connections or building a relationship and how much of it is a pure numbers game?
In the last couple of weeks I have gone to various social media sites and went on an adding spree just to see what would happen.  Digg, Twitter, and Blog Catalog were my specific targets; I didn’t send messages with the ad and I didn’t interact with the people at all. Since doing that I saw a bump in all my social media friends’ lists, on StumbleUpon I gained almost 40 followers just based on …read more