Diggnation
Posted by Skrud at Thursday, April 20th 2006 at 12:55am
I’m addicted to Diggnation.
For those of you who aren’t aware of it, Diggnation is a weekly video podcast by two of the guys behind digg.com: Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht.
digg.com is a kind of “social news bookmarking” site, where news stories are submitted by users, and users vote on which stories they like (called a “digg”). After a certain number of votes, stories appear on the front page, and they aren’t so much “stories” as they are links to the original source. I greatly prefer digg to slashdot.
Each episode of Diggnation is between 30 minutes to an hour long, and has the two hosts discussing the week’s top dugg stories while trying out a new beer; there is a different beer each week. What’s surprising about diggnation is that it’s so much fun to watch. The stories are delivered with such witty commentary and discussion that it’s extremely entertaining.
I’ve been spending the past couple of days catching up on older episodes. In fact, I’ve been subscribed to the video podcast thru iTunes since December (when I watched the Diggnation in Japan episode) and haven’t watched it since. If Diggnation were on TV, I’d watch it regularly. I highly recommend downloading some episodes of the video podcast (video is much better than audio) and watching, even if you have only the slightest inkling of geek in you.
