Hey everyone –

I’m excited to announce that our next guest for Digg Dialogg is Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Walt Mossberg, Personal Technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal and Co-Executive Editor of AllThingsD, will be sitting down and asking him your top questions. From today through next Tuesday, November 24th at 10am ET, you can submit and Digg questions; the top ones will be asked in the Dialogg.

This is an especially timely interview given the FCC’s recent statement in support of Net Neutrality as well as their work to make broadband universally accessible. Be sure to check back here on Wednesday, December 2nd to catch the full interview.

Don’t forget to submit & Digg your questions now!

Thanks,
Kevin

Hi all –

Today we’re excited to announce the premiere of DiggTV, a one-stop destination for all Digg shows. You can catch every episode of your favorite shows, including Diggnation and The Digg Reel, right on this new site. You can also subscribe to the shows in iTunes or other channels, so the shows are delivered right to you as soon as they are live.

Here’s what’s playing:

Diggnation: This weekly tech/web culture show features Kevin Rose & Alex Albrecht discussing this week’s top Digg stories.
The Digg Reel: Every week, host Andrew Bancroft covers the top videos from across the web.
Digg Dialogg: Tony Hawk. Trent Reznor. Sir Richard Branson. The top names answer your top questions in these exclusive videos.
Diggcetera: A miscellaneous mashup of Digg videos, including Digg Meetups and more.

We’ll be continually adding new episodes, shows, and features in the near future, so stay tuned!

Thanks,
Mike

Hi there,

Because there’s so much that happens beneath the surface of Digg, we’ve been working on new ways to expose the most interesting stories to more people. Today we’re launching a new homepage voting experiment called Digg Trends which will surface certain highly active stories as they’re trending to Digg’s homepage so people can vote on whether or not they feel the story actually belongs there.

How does it work? Digg Trends identifies and highlights upcoming stories that have a high volume of activity (think Diggs, comments, favorites, shares, etc.). When we detect a new trending story, it will appear on the homepage for ten minutes. Based on the Digg and bury activity in those ten minutes the story will either become popular or not. To make it easy to follow the action, we’ve setup a Twitter account to tweet out when a new Digg Trend is up for voting on the homepage. Here’s an example of what a Digg Trend might look like:

The goal of Digg Trends is to put high activity stories in front of the community quickly and to present a fun new way for people to express whether they like the story or not. We only show the most basic information for each story so as to ensure that voting is as unbiased as possible. As always, we plan to iterate based on your feedback and suggestions. So, please – tell us what you think.

Enjoy!
Kurt