The Digg Reel: Officially a Stinker
Posted by junger | January 17th, 2008
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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.
Can we leave this to Kevin and Alex please?
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.
Back on the East Coast, Catching Up On Sleep
Posted by junger | January 11th, 2008
I got back from CES yesterday, taking the red-eye into Dulles and spending most of the morning asleep in bed.
Overall, the show was okay. Like every year, it's busy, but due to the amount of "news" that comes out, I spent most of my time in the press room, writing up stories and turning around slideshows.
From when I arrived on Saturday night until Wednesday evening, I literally spent most of my hours working. Yeah, I slept some, but from the West Coast timezone (gotta get stories live for East Coast ASAP) and the events at night, CES makes for some long days.
The work obviously pays off, as CE Pro had a number of good traffic days.
Besides the reporting, it was nice to meet a few people in the industry. I had a nice chat with Patrick Norton of Tekzilla, caught up with Dave Zatz and met Ben Drawbaugh of EngadgetHD (and team).
Outside of the industry, I got my picture taken with Big Papi David Ortiz and saw Brian Williams do the nightly news.
Thankfully, there aren't any tradeshows coming up for me … at least not until EHX Spring, March 11-15 in Orlando.
