Hey Everyone –

We want to give the Digg community an opportunity to pose questions to some of the individuals and leaders of the moment (sans editors), who are taking action to change the world in cool ways. To do this, we’re launching a new program called “Digg Dialogg.” The concept is simple – we identify a featured guest that you will be able to submit questions to (text or video) which the Digg community Diggs up or down. We’ll pose the top questions to the guest during a live interview. Featured guests will represent thought leaders and tastemakers across diverse topics including technology luminaries, environmentalists, entrepreneurs, musicians and filmmakers.

We’ll be kicking off the program at the political party conventions, where we’ll be partnering with CNN’s iReport. Our first stop is the Democratic National Convention in Denver, where we will be hosting the interview on Wednesday 8/27. Our first guest will be Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House and one time recipient of the Digg effect. We will post the link to the live feed via the Digg Twitter account.

Go to the Digg Dialogg page or iReport to submit your questions and vote up or down the questions you’d like to see asked on the Dialogg thread.

We’ll be announcing more guests soon. Let us know who you’d like to talk to as we line up guests for the rest of the year by adding suggestions in the comments.

Digg On,
Kevin

Hey everyone,

We’re calling for questions for our next virtual Townhall which will take place next Thursday, August 28th at 1:30 pm PST/4:30 EST.

This Townhall will be a bit of a twist, as it will be webcast live from the Digg Stage at The Big Tent at the Democratic National Convention in Colorado. (We’ll also be at the Republican National Convention the following week.) You can check out the Townhall webcast live here and it will be available for viewing anytime afterwards.

We’ll share out the latest Digg news and discuss the topics you’d like to see covered. We’re always looking for your feedback to help improve Digg, so let us know what you’d like to discuss by posting, Digging up, or burying the comments in this thread. We will also try to focus on new questions that we didn’t discuss in the last Townhall and omit any duplicate questions as we run down the list.

Looking forward to talking with you all next week!

- Kevin

PS: Don’t forget to subscribe to our Twitter account if you are in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area at the Republican Convention and are interested in attending our party.

Hey all-

The politics section of Digg took off and has grown faster than almost any other content area on the site. Since then, we’ve added new categories for political opinion, political news and the 2008 U.S. elections. And, last fall we launched Digg the Candidates as another way to discover news on Digg and to follow content on the candidates and see what they are Digging.

As the U.S. election season hits full swing, we’re bringing this momentum to the upcoming political party conventions in Denver and St. Paul.

Next week at the Democratic National Convention, Digg, along with Google, local organizations, national blogs and others, will be sponsoring the first ever new media center at a major political party convention. The Big Tent will be a place for bloggers, new media journalists and the public to record their experiences from the convention and to hear from top newsmakers on the Digg Stage.

We’re also hosting our first live Townhall direct from The Big Tent on Thursday, August 28th at 4:30 EST/ 1:30 PST. We’ll be sending out a call for questions on the blog shortly.

The following week, we will be at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. We’ve teamed up with MySpace, Rock the Vote and others to sponsor an event with the Impact Film Festival, which is celebrating the power of film to educate people on critical issues facing the world. We’ll be giving away a few free tickets, so be sure to subscribe to our Twitter feed for a chance to attend if you’re in town.

We’ll be taking videos and snapshots from both of the conventions and posting them on Digg, so you can follow all of the activity.

Thanks to all of you for your support in making Digg a great place for the best online content, whatever content you’re into.

Jay

Hey everyone –

Katie Couric’s asking for questions from the Digg community that she can take along with her to the political conventions in Denver and St. Paul. She’ll be interviewing newsmakers and politicians over the next couple of weeks and will post the videos on YouTube and CBSNews.com. If your question makes it, Katie will read your Digg username when she asks the question. To ask a question or vote on questions, visit her story here.

Digg on,

Kevin

Hey everyone -

We’ve just launched our first Firefox 3 extension and wanted to provide a quick video showing how it works. Some highlights include:

- Notifications: No matter where you are on the web, you can discover popular Digg stories and stay up to date on what your friends are Digging, submitting and commenting. These notifications are fully customizable. Within your preferences you can track different categories and media types, and turn notifications on or off.

- Digg Toolbar: Displays Digg counts & comments as you browse around the web. You can also Digg and submit stories directly from the toolbar, which is collapsible to save space. Note that the toolbar respects user privacy by passing only hashed URLs to Digg to check if they’ve already been submitted.

See it in action:

It’s easy to install – click here and follow the prompts in Firefox.

If you haven’t yet upgraded to Firefox 3, Digg developer Kurt Wilms has put together a Firefox 2 extension that’s full of features – check it out here.

As always, we’re looking for your suggestions and feedback so please email them to us using our new contact form or comment below.

Digg on -
Kevin