Geeks across the world are getting excited because tomorrow morning is going to bring the launch of Digg.com Version 3.0. The blogosphere is buzzing about the launch. The big news is that with this release of Digg.com they will be expanding their content areas into things like politics, entertainment, and world buisness.

I love Digg.com. There are all these little gems out on the web that seem to easily get lossed or buried. Digg does a great job of unearthing these treasures. On any given day you will see some news but a lot of Internet videos, web development tutorials, opinion columns, and plenty of just random things.

The question that I ask, do we really think that Digg.com is going to make a big leap into mainstream use? Do I see my mom ever going onto Digg.com to find something interesting? No not really.

I was listening to Michael Arrington’s TalkCrunch. Him and Richard McManus were interviewing Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose from Digg.com. Kevin told the story about how Digg.com got its initial rise to popularity over having a story related to Paris Hilton’s cell phone being hacked. Doesn’t that say a lot about the audience the site serves and the type of content that is getting pushed out on Digg?

Now I don’t have any quantiative data. I couldn’t give you a break down of how many news stories there are versus, gossip stories, web development tutorials, or flash videos but I can tell you that I don’t go to Digg.com to find the latest news on anything. I can’t imagine choosing first to go to Digg.com rather than Yahoo News. The two sites serve a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT purpose.

Michael Arrington in the TalkCrunch interview with the Digg.com guys said that he thought Digg would soon be over taking the New York Times or the Washington Post as peoples’ perferred way for people to consume information about what is happening in the world. I respectfully disagree.

Digg.com will give me what I can’t find in the New York Times but there are plenty of stories which couldn’t get the digg.com popularity vote but still need to be heard. When Digg.com makes its forray into politics, it’d be more in the category of the Drudge Report. Don’t get me wrong, I love Matt Drudge but its not going to be my sole source of news.

I wish Digg.com, Kevin Rose, and Jay Adelson the best of luck with the launch of Version 3 tomorrow. I will still be a faithful Digg.com user. I don’t see my life and the life of the rest of my friends and family being changed because of Digg.

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