I've said this before, but I'm really enamored with the whole Digg and Kevin Rose story. Business Week is obviously into it too, as it's their cover story.
I
think back to the good old TechTV days and "The Screen Savers." That
was good TV, and I really miss that. To this day, I'm not exactly sure
what it was about the people involved with that show, other than the
fact that they were clearly for real, they were geeky and they loved
technology. I think it's great that so many people from that network
continue to do interesting things.
Kevin's story is most
interesting to me because he left the "safety" of a job at G4 after it
started sucking, and decided to do his own thing. He took the risk. He
had an idea, and he just did it. He's still doing it, and since he's
still living with roommates, I'm thinking he's continuing to focus on
the product, and not the fame and fortune. If he sticks with it, the
rewards will come, no doubt.
I feel a little jealous of course,
because I've always had similar ideas to his in the eight years I've
been running online communities, but I've never had the balls or focus
to go after them. I've made a little money doing my thing, but my stuff
is too audience focused. I wish I would've chased something bigger.
Still, it's inspirational, and I think there is potential out there to do neat things.