Hm. I'm truly surprised that this comment made ripples and that Kevin felt prompted to give a (half-)apology. I've watched diggnation on and off over the years and Rose consistently makes humorless sexist comments in a way that Albrecht doesn't (and yet, Alex manages to be much funnier). He consistenly goes for the fratty-cum-nerdy territory, which feeds into the culture of Digg comments and adolecent internet culture at large. Just as digg isn't exactly a woman-friendly environment, diggnation is exactly a woman-friendly podcast. His comments are far from benign, but exist on a well-established--though notably unfortunate--continuum of gendered divisions at digg and in techie culture. News at 11, etc, etc. - mabisa from FriendFeed MT Plugin

thanks for the thoughtful comment Mabisa - Marshall Kirkpatrick

I'm quite taken aback by the number of negative comments here. We're all fans of digg and we understand that Diggnation is an irreverent show and pushes the limits. While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, all of us at RWW stand by this article. While Marshall was the one who wrote it, the team discussed it at length before posting. Also, before posting we sent an email to digg mgmt inviting them to comment. We could've easily posted something inflammatory last night, but we waited until the morning for digg to send us an official response - which they did. In any case, all the commenters here and on digg are of course welcome to voice their opinions. We posted ours and Kevin had a chance to reply, which he did. Now commenters here and on digg are having their say. Nuff said. I'll shut up now. Richard MacManus ReadWriteWeb Editor - Richard from FriendFeed MT Plugin