Last time we met, you mentioned how important it is to listen to customers.  It sounds like that feedback is now part of the new site?  Basically, users want more control over media?

Since we started digg a year and a half ago, digg has always been about giving users complete and unfiltered control.  Feedback has always been core to how digg works, so that part isn't really new.  Many users have wanted to submit stories outside of the tech areas that have been the focus of digg, and we're now giving them that opportunity with the new enhancements we've made to digg.  It's really exciting for us to see that the digg concept has taken off.  Our 300,000 users are now submitting between 1,400 and 2,000 stories a day to digg.

There are a lot of me-too digg sites, yet digg is still the clear leader.  What sets it apart?  Is it the power of the community?

Running a successful community-driven site like digg is much more difficult than it appears and requires a significant amount of expertise and technology on the back end.  For example, understanding user behavior and the subtleties that define interest levels, on a statistical basis, has taken a great deal of research and development. 

We've had a year and a half to understand that and develop technology in this area.  Also, we believe that digg's focus on transparency with absolutely no editors/intervention gives a leg up on competitive sites that have a small group of people providing oversight.  And finally, digg has developed a significant amount of active users (meaning they participate, not lurk).  Nurturing this active community was one of our greatest challenges and it extremely difficult to replicate.

What's your take on online video for news?

The time displacement that the Internet enables combined with pervasive broadband connectivity and video-enabled devices makes video news and entertainment on-demand a very compelling option for consumers.  As a part of this, the new version of digg will include a video section -- the first ever application of the digg methodology to an area outside of news.