The Digg that many of you are familiar with is a place to go to discover new content on the web. Over the years they’ve stuck to their roots and have focused simply on the new content, but now it looks as though they are branching out a bit. Just yesterday Kevin Rose announced that they were starting something new called Digg Dialogg.
Digg Dialogg (yes, it’s two g’s on Dialogg) is a program where the Digg team identifies a “leader of the moment” or someone who is changing the world in “cool ways” and invites them to appear live for an interview. Before the interview, Digg users are able to submit questions they’d like the guest to answer. During the live interview, the guest will be asked the top questions according to Digg users ( they can digg up or digg down questions).
Because politics are pretty big in the United States right now with the elections coming up in November, it makes sense that the first guest would be involved in politics. Tomorrow evening, Digg Dialogg’s first guest is Nancy Pelosi, current Speaker of the House. Hundreds of questions have already been submitted for her to answer and there are many that have gotten several hundred diggs.
In the future it won’t be just about politics, they say that the featured guests will include “technology luminaries, environmentalists, entrepreneurs, musicians and filmmakers.”
Will Digg Dialogg turn into “The Tonight Show” of the Web?
Oh boy, diggggg is creating a whole new service to promote the radical socialist Speaker Pelosi! I guess when the news isn’t going your way (McCain erasing the gap w/ Obama in little time at all) make your own. I’ve got a question for her, but I won’t bother giving digggggg a signup or the traffic to ask ‘em.
When are you going cut the families of America a break and stop standing in the way of lower gas prices and American energy independence? The blogosphere may not be in touch enough to ask this, but 70% of Americans would like to know the answer!
netster007x, don’t be so paranoiac. The new service has not been elaborated to annoy the Republicans, but there must be a first guest, and combining one who is relevant of a major issue of the present and has consideration of opponents included is not obvious. Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll have your turn, I mean on this new Digg service
Concerning Digg Dialogg, the concept, I think it’s a wonderful idea, and that this idea translates a natural fact : WWW has pushed TV aside.
Yes, logistically there must be a first person chosen. However, do you really think it was just the luck of the draw that the spotlight was given to a far left politician like Speaker Pelosi. Can you honestly claim it was even remotely as likely for the mic to be given to someone like President Bush, for example?
You describe it as the future of news, and I guess it isn’t any worse than what we already get 24/7 on MSNBC and CNN, however claims of objectivity are truly comical.
Notice they never even mention she’s a Democrat. Outing Republicans left and right, yet resisting labeling Democrats is a sly tactic the TV news media has honed.
Why this is significant is because Digg was founded on a democratic news method = what’s important is what the most individuals vote for. Now the bigwigs are adding their own spin to it.