As I've talked about at a few conferences recently, one of the exciting/difficult things about working in-house, on a project with the scope of something like Digg, is the luxury/challenge to adapt your own work. The comments system on Digg is a perfect example. Just this past week, we rolled out …

British podcaster Paul Boag had me on his show for a nice little interview the other day. We discussed the user interface of Digg, enabling people to participate in a community site, developing for the iPhone, and lots of other interesting bits of interface design. He's very good at putting his …

Leah, Kevin, Shawn and I finally have Pownce ready for a limited initial release! I won't go into a ton of detail about what we've created other  •  than to say I'm super excited about it and there's lots of info over on  •  the Pownce site.  •  We're very excited to get real people sending real …

My sister spotted this in an American Airlines in-flight magazine last night... mmmm....  •  “Enterprise Fish Company - Santa Monica and Santa Barbara. In an historic setting, the freshest fish is served. A stones [sic] throw from the water front [sic]. Patrons can watch and smell their meals come …

An important new empirical scientific study finds that aluminum foil hats actually augment radio waves in a devious reversal of their wearer's intent.  •  “Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We …

We just rolled out a new comments system today at Digg. Redesigning one of the busiest and most vibrant comments areas on the web is pretty intimidating. Every day quite a few thousands of people participate in the comments and many more read the comments even if they're not participating. Despite …

I can't get Peter Bjorn & John's song "Young Folks" out of my head lately. Haven't heard it yet? Check out the video. Though, you probably have heard Young Folks — it was even playing at my laundromat last night and that's when you know a song's following you around. It's almost as pop catchy as …

Today, Salon sports writer King Kaufman noted that he has been writing for Salon for ten years. King is one of the few jornalists I've ever followed consistently over a period of time and I'm not even a big sports fan. Soccer knowledge aside, he usually has a well-considered and entertaining …

Kofi Annan lays it down on John Bolton. From a New York Times article today:  •  “  •  Mr. Annan paid his last visit to Washington as secretary general last Tuesday when President Bush gave a dinner in his honor at the White House. One of the guests was John R. Bolton, the American ambassador to …