Digg just launched a bunch of new features and channels, broadening their scope out from tech news into health, science, videos, entertainment and world/business news. I’ve been a fan of digg for almost a year and the new channels are definitely a welcome sight.

The one thing that has bugged me about digg is the assumption that the target audience is male and young enough to be my eldest son, so when I found this: “A girl on the Internet? No way!” I howled. Yes, she’s younger than my demographic, but she’s still nailed it. Work your way past the chatspeak to the text…she’s an intelligent and thoughtful voice.

Intertwined with this is Diggnation, one of the funniest podcasts around with one notable exception: When Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht launch into their “frat boys do shots and get drunk” routine it not only gets stupid and boring, it’s dangerous. Even their bit with the beers at the beginning of each podcast gets old after awhile. It might be cool for the frat boys, but for me it just seems silly and not very funny, especially since people close to me have struggled with the alcohol beast and kids are dying from alcohol poisoning.

It would be really nice if the top tech sites and podcasts started figuring out that girls really ARE on the Internet, that we really do read the tech sites, can be as geeky as boys, and don’t need to be drunk to have fun.

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