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I was checking out my backlog of Diggnation vidcast recently and caught Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht’s latest from MacWorld. Many know Kevin from digg and diggnation potentially, but not as many may remember him, and Alex, from The “older” Screensavers days on TechTV. I used to Tivo the show until the company was sold to G4 Media in 2004 and Leo Laporte left. Now, Alex and Kevin are together again, in a vidcast from Revision3, reviewing the latest and greatest digg stories each week.

I think Alex and Kevin are pretty entertaining now; however, for whatever reason, I never liked them together on The Screensavers during their brief tenure! I think it’s because they now appear more laid back, swigging beers, and they embark on comedic tangents during their tech reviews. It appears that iTunes fans agree because Diggnation receives mostly 4 to 5 stars in reviews.

Also, I have to root for Alex somewhat because he’s originally from Vienna, VA. Since I live in VA and worked for AOL off of Westwood Center in Vienna for a couple of years, there seems to be “some vague” connection there.

It’s funny to watch the show evolve too. I rewatched episode 1 from ‘05 when they covered a digg article that proclaimed “AOL Gives Up.” Basically, that was when AOL announced that they were allowing content to be viewed outside of their “subscription only” service (aka the walled garden). If you are an AOLer, and you watch that episode, you may need to forgive Alex for proclaiming AOL’s “walled garden” as a “jail of crap.” But hey, it’s all in fun and AOL has open things up since then.

Furthermore, the show has morphed from Kevin instructing “no f-bombs” in episode 1 to allowing more “expressive creativity” in future episodes, swigging beers remains constant. :)

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