After seeing that the old confederate state of Virginia went and voted for Obama, the GETV crew make some history of its own by pulling an all-nighter and doing a first-ever spot-news deadline episode! BUT ITS CUZ OBAMA IS PRESIDENT ELECT! We had to go out and party with the people of San Francisco and stop by the Current TV and Digg party to show you what it was like out here in the West Coast of A.

Episode links: Barack Obama

Digg had a super secret early preview party for digg version 3, slated to take over the world on Monday June 26th. Irina caught up with Kevin Rose, co-founder and chief architect of digg, to tell us about a secret feature that may or may have made it into version 3. She also chats with Timeless, a digg developer sweatshop worker about back doors. Finally, Irina talks with the Stamen Design kids, Eric Rodenbeck and Michal Migurski, who are behind the new elastic and bouncy data visualizations in digg version 3. digg it!

Episode links: digg, Kevin Rose, party pix, borscht, digg v3, digg viz, Stamen Design, Eric Rodenbeck, Michal Migurski 

Bonus video: Kevin Rose diggs deep with GETV

Irina sits down with Josh Kinberg, developer of FireAnt and Irina’s favorite person of the moment. He talks about what life is like being dugg twice in one day, his attempts at visiting that other famous Las Vegas convention and how awesome and easy FireAnt is to use. Episode links: josh kinberg, fireant, digg1, digg2, greased google, rocket, video is hard, mime type

Irina catches up with Kevin Rose of digg.com at a recent SuperHappyDevHouse gathering to find out how popular borscht is amongst the diggerati. Episode links: Kevin Rose, digg, SuperHappyDevHouse, borscht1, borscht2, borscht3, digg this interview