Diggers near and far, we've been remiss and haven't been keeping you up to date on changes happening on Digg! We have been heads down working on a major launch, and forgot that we have released some interesting changes this past month and also have some exciting features in the pipeline for the coming weeks as well. Without further ado, let's take a look at some of the highlights from the past month. For newspaper lovers across the globe,

Everybody remembers their first time and mine was January 15, 2009.

Trucking right along, the Digg team has a couple of new site changes to discuss which are either going live today or have already been live for a couple of days. We are running an experiment with a Digg Top News algorithm change, we have made it easier to find the best comments on a story, downvoted comments have more visibility, and we have improved user suggestions. Let's dive a little deeper into these changes.

As many of you know, we've been working hard over here at Digg.

Digg has substantially rebuilt our infrastructure over the last year in what we call "Digg V4". This blog post gives a high-level view of the systems and technologies involved and how we use them. Read on to find out the secrets of the Digg engineers!

Welcome to our first guest blog post! We're looking for community members with a true passion for social media.

Got some love from a longtime Digg user at SXSW: "If I don't start my day with Digg, it's not a good day." We've had some great comments like this from many of our users,

Building on our recent launches of My News Trending and removing RSS , we have another batch of improvements launching today on Digg: streamlining the experience for new users, making it possible to filter your My News Recent by activity type, easier searching with an updated site header, improved About site with better navigation. Now let's dive a little bit deeper into these changes and what motivated them.

Good news from Digg! We're happy to introduce our new VP of Engineering, Ben Folk-Williams!

Hey everyone,

Hello party people esteemed attendees of SXSW !

Another couple of weeks, and a another wave of updates to Digg! Last time we released new modules, profile improvements and removed feeds . This time we have taught My News how to recognize trends , made it easier to see who has Dugg a story , launched a module showing the previous day's top comments , revamped the Find People page , and brought everyone over to new design . We cordially invite you to join us for screenshots and a brief explanation.

The Digg team has been hard at work since rolling out the new design two weeks ago, and we've put together another release for your enjoyment. Today we're rolling out a couple of new features, a much requested bug fix, and two big changes: new modules, including modules recognizing popular comments and submitters, displaying the number of times a story has been viewed, showing multiple comments per story in the user profile view, rolling out the new design to logged out users,

Everyone here at Digg is excited to announce our biggest feature release so far in 2011. Today we're beginning a rollout of three features: a new design incorporating frequent suggestions from our community, everyone's historical number of stories promoted to Top News as well as historical percentage of stories promoted to Top News, and optional on-site and email notifications when stories you submit or Digg are promoted to Top News.

Hello everyone,

We're happy to announce that the White House has joined the Digg community!