Jason Unger

The Digg Reel: Officially a Stinker

Posted by junger - 01/17/08 at 12:01:04 pm

Revision3 has a new show out today, The Digg Reel, hosted by Jessica Corbin and featuring videos from Digg.com's Video section.

I just watched the first episode, and yeah, it's a stinker.

It seems like it's intended to be a funny show, but it's not. The lone personality talking to the camera and making lame jokes is pretty lame.

If it was Kevin or Alex, the hosts of Diggnation, doing the job, it might be a different story. But at least we have an idea of what Jessica Corbin has been up to, since she was MIA from the last episode of Tekzilla (at CES) and hasn't appeared in many (if any) of the Tekzilla Daily episodes.

Stan Schroeder at Mashable seems to have enjoyed the episode, but nearly all of Digg disagrees.

Colesif:

Can we leave this to Kevin and Alex please?

XedLos:

Honestly i have watched all of the videos b4 so it becomes boring. And honestly Jessica's jokes arn't really funny. Seriously Rev3 should drop this show.

I've never been such a big fan of Jessica Corbin's before — she's totally overmatched on Tekzilla with Patrick Norton. And even though Mathew Ingram puts her in the league of CNet's Natali del Conte and Rocketboom's Joanne Colan, I really don't get the comparison — she's not really funny and isn't as … bubbly.

If I want to see the top videos on Digg, I'll go there. The reason I watch Diggnation isn't because of the stories, it's because of the personalities and their takes on the stories.

The Digg Reel — so far — doesn't have that.

PS – Jim Louderback should replace Corbin on Tekzilla. His work with Patrick Norton last week was great, and he obviously really knows his stuff.