Digg Dialogg: Now thats interesting

Posted 2 years ago at 7:12 pm. 0 comments

I heard about Digg Dialogg this morning from Kevin Rose’s tweet, and checked it out. The idea is pretty cool: Diggers post questions to the guest picked for session and/or digg other questions people have already posted. The guest finally responds to the most dugg questions. The first guest is Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (her Digg Profile is here, in case you want to add her as a friend).

Looking at her profile is interesting. For one thing, there is a link to the Speaker’s blog. I dont really follow politics as much as I maybe should, and definitely do not follow any blogs, but I did not really imagine a blog for the Speaker. Her other profile on that page is her Facebook profile. I guess its true, everyone is on Facebook.

Back to Digg though, I really do like this format. Going to the questions page, the first questions I saw there were idiotic (”You married? This Digg photo doesn’t do your beautiful face justice. “), but these questions had already been buried. Sorting by the most dugg though brought back some really good questions though. Digg has paired with CNN’s iReport on this one so you can even upload your questions as videos. I have been a big fan of the Digg format and it has been validated even by other sites like Yahoo’s Buzz which do pretty well with more news format (although for whatever reason Netscape’s Propeller didn’t catch on with similar content).

Its been good to see Digg innovate quite a bit recently with an open Digg API, the recent rollout of their new recommendation engine and the Firefox toolbar that I love and which has become the only way I get to Digg stories these days. Oh and the toolbar is completely open source so if you want to grab the source code, you can here.

Anyway, check it out and drop me a comment to let me know how you like it.