I enjoy watching the rise of Digg-founder Kevin Rose from Internet celebrity, to main-stream success-story. One of the great side-effects of this transition is some of the cool things he gets to do, or rather gets access to. Digg Dialouge is a series of interviews with celebrities, conducted by Mr Rose, that sources questions from the users of Digg.com. Questions are posted, and then 'yay or nayed' by means of the Digg voting system; the questions with the highest votes get posed ... Read More

Those wonderful chaps and chapettes at BoingBoing are giving us their own unique window into this weeks GDC (Game Developers Conference), live via Ustream (time-zones apply). I only just found out about this, so apologies on the late reporting. You can catch the latest in CounterTech here: The happy-mutants have already covered some pretty-cool techy stuff.Including this weird 'hybrid-media' photo-frame designed by award winning visual artist (The Matrix) artist John Geata: Keep checking back for some cool interviews with top tech-journos, web pioneers ... Read More

Renewable energy is on everyone's mind these days with the coming Carbon Armageddon. Techmole decided we'd better check out ways of keeping our tech alive in the aftermath of Mother-Nature's wrath: I still can't believe the cheek of the National Grid! Essentially, what Marios told us is that you're not LEGALLY allowed to generate your own electricity for your home. You must siphon power back into the grid, and then buy it back from them. Yet another example of 'rip-off UK'? Ken Eakins Read More