Digg Users to be Journalists at Conventions
Kevin Rose announced the Digg Dialogg, a new feature that will let Digg users participate in interviews, one diggable question at a time. With the U.S. presendential conventions coming up soon, the first interviews will be with political figures, beginning with Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday. Digg CEO Jay Adelson will ask the top questions of Pelosi on camera.
This new feature of Digg is another example of a 2008 campaign that is hooked on the internet. It makes the stuff Howard Dean did in 2004 look simplistic. Fund-raising on the web? No brainer. Candidates seem to have accounts on every social network their staffers can find.
Letting the public have a say in interview questions isn’t new. There has been an online youth debate since 1996. More recently, there were Youtube debates before the primaries. Still, it’s good to see Digg use their technology–and their community–in new ways.
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