The Digg team is heading back to Mighty in San Francisco for our last Digg Meetup of the year. Come raise a pint, take a picture or two in the Photoboof, and hear some cool announcements – the perfect way to spend your Wednesday night. In case you haven’t had a chance to attend one of these events, check out some of the footage from our Meetup a few weeks back in London.
We’re also excited to announce some more dates and cities for future Meetups. In the first few months of 2009, we’re heading to LA, Austin, and Seattle – details on the venues and other 2009 events coming soon. As always, for all the latest up-to-date information, make sure to keep an eye on our Meetups page.
Our next Townhall meeting is Tuesday, November 18th at 8pm ET/5pm PT and we’d like to hear from you. Similar to past Townhalls, you submit and vote up the questions and topics you would like to see answered. Jay and I will then address the most popular questions from the community live via webcast here on the Townhall page. It will also be available to view anytime afterwards.
It’s been a crazy few months here at Digg and I’m sure we’ll have lots to talk about. So, please submit and digg up your favorite questions in this thread.
The newly remodeled Digg Shop is now open for business! We’ve updated our most popular hoodies and tees, and added new styles, colors and other cool stuff. Also added are laptop messenger bags, 1337 Digg t-shirts and boxer shorts.
If you have more good ideas for new t-shirt designs, we want to hear about them. So, post your designs and ideas in the comments.
Last week, former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore was our second Digg Dialogg guest. For those of you who didn’t catch the program on Current TV this weekend, you can watch it online here and at Current. The Digg community submitted over 1,000 questions, ranging topics from the election to Al Gore’s Twitter account. We’ve included a quick highlight below (the full version is available at the links above).
Last week’s election was definitely one of historic proportions and many folks joined us for the Election Night party, hosted by Digg and Current. It was Digg’s highest traffic day in history and a historic day for democratized media. I want to personally thank all of you for helping Digg and the community be part of such a memorable presidential election.
A few months ago we successfully kicked off Digg Dialogg with Nancy Pelosi at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. For those of you who missed it, Digg Dialogg gives the community an opportunity to submit and vote up questions to be posed to influential individuals and leaders of the moment. These questions are unfiltered by editors or journalists, and represent the most popular questions as voted on by the community.
I’m excited and honored to announce our next Digg Dialogg guest, former Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chairman of Current Media, Al Gore. I can’t think of a better time to get the perspective of one of the most influential leaders of the decade. Topics can range from politics to the environment to the economy – it’s really up to you.
On Wednesday, November 5th, on the heels of the Current TV and Digg election party and the results of the 2008 presidential race, we will open up Digg Dialogg for questions. Stay tuned for the homepage link when the questions go live at midnight PST. The interview will premiere on Current TV at 10:00pm EST/PST this Friday night, and will be available online by 11:00PST. We will also post regular updates to the Digg Twitter account.
We’ll be announcing more guests soon. As always, let us know who you’d like to talk to by adding suggestions in the comments.
Digg on,
Kevin
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