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KEVIN ROSE DIGGNATION LIVE DIGG INTERVIEW @ NYC + SXSW VIDEO DOWNLOAD IPHONE/IPOD/ZUNE EDITION

Diggnation host Kevin Rose talks about the features of the popular website Digg. Shomari chats with the Digg founder as he tapes a live episode of the hit internet show Diggnation in New York City with his co-host Alex Albrecht.  Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht are greeted like rockstars at their live events including their latest hosted at SXSW. Stay tuned to download more episodes in the Binside TV Diggnation series. Hosted by Shomari Harris. Producer/ Director/ Editor/ Cinematographer Shani Harris. Special Thanks to Kevin Rose, Alex Albrecht,Jay Adelson, Diggnation and Revision3. 

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During their usual Web shows, the hosts lounge on an overstuffed couch and discuss the highest-ranked stories on Digg, the social news Web site founded by Mr Rose. Most episodes, they drink beer, make small talk with the audience and playfully rib one another while discussing the news. Kevin Rose and his Diggnation co-host Alex Albrecht made a recent appearance on Jimmy Fallon's Late Night show. The pair greated fans at a live Diggnation taping of their show at SXSW. At SXSW Kevin Rose announced a twitter directory launch and new Copy + Paste functions on iPhone OS 3.0.

The scene unfolding on Saturday night in the backyard of Stubb’s, a barbeque restaurant in downtown Austin, can be described in one word: mania. More than 2,000 fanboys and girls piled into a scrubby yard, pumping their fists in the air, shouting and chanting as they waited for the guests of the evening to arrive on stage. The fervor and excitement — which one attendee described as Beatlemania for nerds — seemed worthy of a musician or Hollywood celebrity, but neither arrived. Instead, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, co-hosts of “Diggnation,” a weekly Web show, strolled out.

Saturday’s event, which featured Mr. Rose and Mr. Albrecht giving away pairs of silver Adidas sneakers, track jackets and Panasonic digital cameras before they settled down to chat about the most-Dugg stories of the day, was the best-received event of the weekend so far.

During their usual Web shows, the hosts lounge on an overstuffed couch and discuss the highest-ranked stories on Digg, the social news Web site founded by Mr Rose. Most episodes, they drink beer, make small talk with the audience and playfully rib one another while discussing the news. The topics du jour for Saturday were the financial analyst Jim Cramer’s stock market manipulations, a keyboard that simulates the music of the electro-DJ duo Daft Punk, and a paralyzed man who was able to walk again after being bitten by a brown recluse spider.

Jay Adelson, chief executive of Digg, said the appeal of the show lies in the accessibility of both Mr. Rose and Mr. Albrecht. It’s not uncommon for them to hang around after live tapings and chat with audience members, he said.

“There’s no distance between fans and artists,” said Mr. Adelson. “They’re a part of the same community.”

Drue Placette, 28, a technology consultant from the Austin area, said he’d been a fan of Mr. Rose since the late ’90s when he appeared on a tech-centric show called “The Screen Savers.” “It shows that any homebrewed guys with a laptop and the Internet can make it,” he said.

Last month, at ROFLCon in New York City, Jim Louderback, chief executive of Revision3, the San Francisco-based studio that produces Diggnation, said the company began hosting the live versions of the Web show a few years ago to help promote it and expand its audience. The live events were better than any marketing campaign for the shows, which draw roughly 200,000 views each, he said. “People love to attend and tell their friends. It’s a great word-of-mouth campaign.”

Bob Rose, Kevin’s father, flew into Austin from Las Vegas for the event. It was the first time Mr. Rose, 70, had ever seen a live edition of his son’s show, and he confessed to being a bit stunned by the wild response it was eliciting.

“It’s crazy,” Mr. Rose said shaking his head. “I never dreamed it was like this.”

“Someone told me its like he’s a pop star that doesn’t play music. I guess that’s true,” he said, gesturing to the cheering crowds in the audience. “But all of this is eons ahead of me.” [NY TIMES]

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DIGGNATION HOSTS KEVIN ROSE AND ALEX ALBRECHT ON LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON VIDEO

Is Jimmy Fallon trying to become Kevin Rose?  The late night talk show host is courting the tech savvy youth audience that internet stars Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht have earned. Their popular internet show Diggnation is a highly ranked online program where two guys sit on a couch, drink beer and discuss pop culture stories submitted through the Digg website.

Jimmy Fallon made a guest appearance on Diggnation and has already acquired his shiny new MacBook for product placement. Jimmy has also injected the booze element in his show by doing a beer bong toss drinking game when Serena Williams was a guest and joking during Emily Blunts' appearance that he had vodka in his cup. Jimmy Fallon can try but Kevin Rose has a natural rock star quality. Kevin is way cooler than Jimmy Fallon that's why he has such a strong following.

When Jimmy Fallon appeared as a guest host on "Diggnation" in January to promote his new late-night talk show, he made clear that he was going after a different audience than broadcast TV was used to.

Now, in the second week of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon," the "Saturday Night Live" alum is returning the favor. "Diggnation" co-hosts Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose will appear tonight as guests on his show.

"We sort of assumed it was going to be months before we got onto the show," Albrecht said.

The courtship of "Diggnation," a weekly online video show that's wildly popular among the geek crowd, shows how resolute Fallon has been in his quest to attract a tech-savvy audience.

"Late Night" producer Gavin Purcell has said that viewers can expect to see more product placement than they're used to. Purcell, who previously produced "Attack of the Show" on the G4 network, is pushing for gadgets, games and Web services to feature prominently.

In one gag, the camera zoomed in on audience members and then displayed silly fake Facebook status updates above their heads. A blogger from Engadget demonstrated the Palm Pre cellphone on the show. And Fallon used micro-blogging service Twitter to solicit interview questions for Cameron Diaz from fans.

Twitter has become a major promotional tool for Fallon and Co. The host has an account (@jimmyfallon); Purcell has one (@gavinpurcell); even the drummer ...

... for the Roots, the show's house band, tweets during taping (@qoolquest).

Rose, who is the founder of social news website Digg.com, and Albrecht are Twitter stars, with more than 264,000 and 54,000 followers, respectively. Unsurprisingly, Fallon is featuring the website on tonight's show.

Tonight's "Twitter experiment," as they're calling it, is to feature an audience member's account on the show and in messages on all of their Twitter pages. The idea seems to be to find out just how popular they can make him or her.

In the first hour since the group tweeted, asking people to follow amateur cartoonist Bryan Brinkman, his Twitter account amassed more than 7,800 new followers -- that's more than 100 new fans every minute. The experiment may get even more interesting once the show actually.

On Diggnation, the co-hosts discuss the top stories of the week on Digg. The pair lounge with laptops on a living room couch while sipping beer and bantering about odd news and gadgets.

The production values are fairly low, but the Revision3-produced Web show gets hundreds of thousands of downloads every week. The crowd is an advertiser's dream: young, tech-savvy males with plenty of disposable income.

And nowadays, when advertisers are becoming notoriously more difficult to wrangle, this is the type of audience that networks lust after. [LA TIMES]

12TH ANNUAL WEBBY AWARDS WINNERS 2008 LIVE DIGGNATION TOTALLY RAD SHOW DIGG MEETUP

Will.i.am was honored with A Webby Artist of the Year Award in recognition of his contribution to the political landscape with his making of the Obama videos

Rapper Ludacris also attended the 12th annual Webby Awards last night at Cipriani. He performed at the afterparty.

The Huffington post founder Arianna Huffington and internet celebrities Amber Lee Ettinger aka "Obama Girl" and McCain Girl were also at the star studded event. Stephen Colbert from the Colbert Report was honored for the innovative way he has used the Internet to interact with fans of The Colbert Report - from Google bombing to make him the top search result for "greatest living American" to challenging the "truthiness".  of Wikipedia. Musician David Byrne received a Lifetime Achievement award. The Webbys recognized Byrne's vision both artistically and as a pioneer in embracing the spirit of the Internet and technology in the arts. source

We attended the Digg meetup and live Diggnation episode taping during NY  Internet Week in Williamsburg Brooklyn. The crowd was great and we had alot of fun. Diggnation hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht were greeted in the Big Apple like rock stars. Hundreds of fans stood in a long line that went around the corner just for a chance to meet them. Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht were cool and everybody loved them.

We're fans of Diggnation too and had to get photos. Check out the pics of Binside TV host Shomari Harris with Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose. FYI Diggnation fans Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht drink real beer on camera during their shows. 

Revision 3 shows Diggnation and The Totally Rad Show both won People's Voice Webby Awards in the Technology& Variety Online Film/ Video category. Congrats guys!  Thanks to Walt Ribeiro for sending the Kevin Rose pic.  Stay tuned to Binside TV for our special episode featuring interviews with Kevin Rose, Alex Albrecht and Digg Ceo Jay Adelson at the Live Diggnation event.  Shout out to Kevin, Alex and Jay thanks again for having us. Visit the Diggnation website to watch the show and for the latest updates. Diggnation is a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories. 

The stars of the Internet came out on Monday for the 12th Annual Webby Awards, which honors achievement in online film and video projects.

Blogs editor Brian Heater and I hit the red carpet to schmooze with the likes of "Chocolate Rain" star Tay Zonday, "Obama girl" Amber Lee Ettinger, French director Michel Gondry, and actor/director David Wain.

Zonday was recently parodied on an episode of "South Park" that touched on the idea of Internet stars not actually being able to make any money. Though Zonday said the mention was "charming" and "flattering in a 'South Park' way," he disputed the idea that he would not be able to benefit financially from his YouTube stardom.

"I was a disgruntled PhD student about a year ago, and I think this caused me to get bored with that and try my hand to make my living as an artist," he said. "And so far it hasn't been that bad."

In grad school, Zonday was researching the relationship between performance and social change, but figured "why study history when you can make it?" he said. source