Hey Everyone - We want to give the Digg community an opportunity to pose questions to some of the individuals and leaders of the moment )sans editors(, who are taking action to change the world in cool ways. To do this, we're launching a new program called "Digg Dialogg." The concept is simple â€" we identify a featured guest that you will be able to submit questions to )text or video( which the Digg community Diggs up or down.

Hey everyone, We're calling for questions for our next virtual Townhall which will take place next Thursday, August 28th at 1:30 pm PST/4:30 EST. This Townhall will be a bit of a twist, as it will be webcast live from the Digg Stage at The Big Tent at the Democratic National Convention in Colorado. )We'll also be at the Republican National Convention the following week .

Hey all- The politics section of Digg took off and has grown faster than almost any other content area on the site. Since then, we've added new categories for political opinion, political news and the 2008 U.S. elections. And, last fall we launched Digg the Candidates as another way to discover news on Digg and to follow content on the candidates and see what they are Digging. As the U.S. election season hits full swing,

Hey everyone - Katie Couric's asking for questions from the Digg community that she can take along with her to the political conventions in Denver and St. Paul. She'll be interviewing newsmakers and politicians over the next couple of weeks and will post the videos on YouTube and CBSNews.com. If your question makes it, Katie will read your Digg username when she asks the question. To ask a question or vote on questions, visit her story here . Digg on,

Hey everyone - We've just launched our first Firefox 3 extension and wanted to provide a quick video showing how it works. Some highlights include: - Notifications: No matter where you are on the web, you can discover popular Digg stories and stay up to date on what your friends are Digging, submitting and commenting. These notifications are fully customizable. Within your preferences you can track different categories and media types, and turn notifications on or off.

Hey everyone - It's even easier to access Digg on the go with the new mobile version of Digg. This enhanced version - found at m.digg.com - is perfect for phones that support the full web browsing experience, such as a Treo, Blackberry or that new iPhone you just waited in line all morning to get. This version provides: - Multiple views of the most recently popular stories. Just as on Digg, you can tab between the filters to see stories popular in the last 24 hours, 7 days,

Hi all, It's been a month since we've rolled out the Recommendation Engine, and we've found that you're Digging more than ever. Now that we have thirty days under our belt, we wanted to share out some stats and give you a heads up on some of the improvements we are working on to make the Recommendation Engine even better. Some statistics: - Digging activity is up significantly: the total number of Diggs increased 40% after launch.

Hey Everyoneâ€" Today we're announcing more details around the new Facebook Connect feature. This feature will allow anyone who currently uses Facebook to seamlessly become a Digg user and start sharing and Digging stuff right away. With this new feature, when you are prompted to log onto Digg, you can use your Facebook account information to sign in. Once you Digg a story, Facebook Connect can publish that in your Facebook Mini-Feed.

Hey everyone - The Digg crew is coming to Chicago this Wednesday. We'll be at SmartBar in Wrigleyville from 6pm-10pm, so come out and say hi if you're around. It was great to meet some of you at the last New York meetup )one person even came from as far as Amsterdam to attend(. We put together a quick video of some highlights from the last one: We hope to see some of you at our upcoming meetups. You can find more cities and updates here .

Hey Everyone â€" We're launching the Digg Recommendation Engine beginning this week. The feature will be in beta and presented to registered Digg users first, based on a random sampling of logged-in users. Look for the red beta flag on your Upcoming tab - this means you now have access to the Recommendation Engine. We hope to roll it out to everyone within the week or so. The Recommendation Engine is a cool way to discover new content on Digg.

Hey Everyone â€" We just released a new version of Digg the Candidates today - check it out if you're interested in following the latest U.S. presidential election news on Digg.  The growth of the World & Business and Elections sections on Digg over the past year has been amazing, and it's been great to see the diversity of interest from Digg users from all around the world. We'll be doing a few interesting things at this summer's political party conventions.

Hola, We're excited to launch the new Comments system - we've listened to your requests and feedback and have incorporated many of your suggestions. Some highlights include: PRESENTATION - Comments are much more lightweight. Some submissions get hundreds of comments, which used to require a lot of bandwidth to load and even more CPU to render. The display of each page of comments is now managed by a processing queue,

Hey all! Thanks for tuning in to our Digg Townhall on Tuesday night. Keep the feedback coming! If you missed it, you can catch the past Townhalls at digg.com/townhall . Be sure to mark your calendar for a few upcoming events " Digg is coming to The Big Apple for Internet Week and we're teaming up with Revision3 to throw a Digg Meet-up and live Diggnation on June 4th. Join us at Studio B in Brooklyn from 6pm-midnight to meet fellow Diggers and folks from the Digg team.

Hey all, The Data Sharing Summit in San Francisco was a gas. It was a real pleasure to work with like-minded people from organizations, large and small, all supporting DataPortability . At the Summit I had the chance to show off Digg's latest DataPortability enhancements. Although the enhancements are not visible on Digg.com, if you use Digg together with other social networks, these enhancements can make the Web more fun and useful.

Hey all, Happy Earth Day! I'm thrilled to announce that Digg has been recognized as a key source of environmental news by The Daily Green and its "Heart of Green" award. The Environment topic on Digg has become one of the biggest sources for environmental content anywhere on the Web. So, in honor of Earth Day, we encourage each of you to Digg or submit something that you care about! I also want to remind everyone that tonight we're celebrating our first Digg meet-up.

Hey Everyone, We are excited to be nominated for two Webby awards! Digg has been nominated in the Best Practices category, along with Facebook, Flickr, Yelp and the NYTimes.com. Diggnation is also up for a Webby in Film & Video. Help vote us up under the following categories: Website > Features > Best Practices > Digg Online Film & Video > Technology > Diggnation http://pv.webbyawards.com/ Digg on, Kevin PS: Jay is a finalist in the 2008 TIME 100!

Thanks to our friends over at Facebook, you can now import your dugg stories directly into your mini-feed )no application needed(. Simply visit your profile, find your mini-feed, click on the 'import' link, and enter your Digg username. So why does this matter? Once you enable this feature the stories you digg will not only post to your mini-feed, but also syndicate to your friends through the main Facebook news feed.

Hey, we fixed the bugs happening over the last few days around digging, commenting, submitting and registration. You shouldn't have any more of these issues on Digg )of course, if you do, please submit them to us(. We thank you for your patience during this time while we tracked down this very elusive issue.

Hey everyone, We know that we are currently having some issues on Digg at the moment. Submissions, commenting, digging and other actions may sometimes fail. We have a crack team assigned to it and will be making numerous fixes as soon as possible to get Digg back to 100% for ya.

Hey all, Normally our policy is to not comment about things like this, but this morning's rumors about a bidding war involving Google and Microsoft have created such a stir we feel compelled to tell you all directly that they are completely inaccurate. Sorry to burst any drama theories, but they aren't true. We remain focused on improving Digg and rolling out great features.