I Digg The So-So

Steve is gonna love this one. :)

Where's The Love, Techcrunch?

Duncan Riley did a story called "Attack Of The Fake Bloggers" and neglected to include the person responsible for changing the way sites like the one he writes for gets a lot of their news: me. Not to sound like a douche or anything but come on! You can do better than that! Looks like we'll have to implement a new feature at digg. Users will get a hoot out of the "Techcrunch sucks" section. Uncov would be proud.

Future of Web Apps Conference

Coming up pretty soon I will be speaking at the Future of Web Apps Conference in jolly old England. I guess I will talk about this in more detail at some point in time coming but I just want to mention it because when I do go there, we want to do an episode of Diggnation and need you to come down because the venue we have will be taking up around 1000 seats, so if you're anywhere in Europe, find yourself down there.

You can also come see me at the FOWA conference talking on October 3rd, so check that out as well. I made a handy chart of what to look out for. Oh yeah and I'm trying to comment on anything I come across dealing with Digg, Revision3, Pownce, etc. So feel free to email me: fakekevinrose@gmail dot com.

Digg and Facebook Code

People sometimes want stuff without knowing how to handle it.

I'm reading Adario Strange's take on the removal of the Facebook code from Digg and the fact that people (thanksfully) didn't go all up in arms over this. First off, I really hate the fact that people have to fish for angles in blog entries with something like this. The fact that the code was removed by Google is a clear indication that this is way different than the HD-DVD scenario. Tell you what, take 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 and keep in mind you can crack HD-DVD copy protection with it. Now, take the Facebook code and give it to a coder. Two different things. Just about anyone can get access to the code but it's not like anything could be done with it. Do something with the code. I dare you. But if some coders were to get hold of that Facebook source code, people could learn about the behind the scenes of Facebook. This is also very illegal since Facebook had no intention of letting this out and we have to abide. If the Digg code leaked and it wound up on Digg we wouldn't sit back and let the people do what they want, regardless of how the democratization of their news has affected their view of things. At the very least, we draw the line at anything illegal. If you can't get that then you have let the "power of the people" thing go to your head, in which case you need to go rock climing or something. Get a cat, take your attention off the internet a while.

We love the users over at Digg and I think they can understand where we are coming from. Yes, we will fight for something we believe is right. Illegal source code on the site is not something we will fight for. Just because a lot of people want something doesn't make it right. That's like saying because a lot of people read TechCrunch it's a good blog.

+fkrose

Patrick Norton at Revision 3

So there has been a lot of talk recently about Patrick Norton leaving his gig over at ZD, hosting DL.TV. There has been even more chatter that he might be coming over the Revision3. All I can say on this situation is that we have nothing to announce at the moment. Maybe somewhere down the line we will finally be able to announce that Patrick is not coming to Revision3. Hey, if Oprah can announce she is not gay then we can announce not anything we want.

I know this is not the sort of news you want to hear. You want to hear that we are taking Patrick over at Rev3 and going to make The Screen Savers 4.0 or something. The fact of the matter is that Pat is already over at Rev3 and you can see him helping out Dave Randolph on episodes of SYSTM. Hopefully Pat will be able to stick around to do more episodes and help us out with some other projects (we could use some extra hands building our new sets) but you certainly have to wait for a non-announcement announcement.

I can give you the inside scoop though on what I think Pat will be up to. From what I hear he will be going on to blog full time. As you can see, he's already warmed up. Hope he keeps up the momentum. Remember, you heard it here first :)

+FKR

Diggnation 109

Okay, so I waited until the public release of episode 109 of Diggnation to mention this but I did in fact get an email from one of the guys over at TPB. They let me know about them bringing back Suprnova and yes you should be excited. I got a chance to take a look at an early build of the site and you will not be disappointed. I fear for my life so I won't say anything more on that matter :)

We heard the complaints about the shows being too short lately and we'll do our best to keep them nice and long for you. Sometimes there just isn't enough stuff to really hold our attention or other outside factors keep us from going longer. At the very least we will not do longer shows that suck when shorter shows that rock could be done.

Don't forget to check out Beer for Diggnation!

More later.

+fkrose

Vista Causing Global Warming

Yes, yes, yes! This is so kick ass. I don't get why people don't get Macs, it's as thought they like living in the past, man. Seriously, if you could pay a little more in some, not all cases, for a product that works, would you? I would and did. I think some people are worried because they spent all their lives on PCs. Live a little! Not only are they afraid Macs can't do what they do on Windows, they think it's not powerful enough. If it's any consolation, everyone in digg uses a Mac. Yeah, the reason digg is so awesome is because everyone is on a Mac.