Talk:Kevin Rose

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Wow, this is painful to listen to. How about that Zed D TV?

His net worth is $2.1 Billion - I find that pretty hard to believe, can anyone back this up? Ben 20:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

"avid fan of Wikipedia because of its unfailing accuracy", sure about that? Accuracy is not one of Wikipedia's strongest points. Best host on G4

... That's not saying much ;P --Sketchee 03:33, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

He's not on G4 anymore.. :) --Nate3000 07:03, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

What Happend to the Systm page? --PhoneJack3000

'Twas taken down and redirected here. Some folks claimed it was "not encyclopedic". --taestell 03:28, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

I miss the dark tips

I'm relatively certain Kevin dropped out of college, but the article says he graduated from UNLV. I remember a conversation on Attack of the Show between himself and cohost Kevin Pereira noting that the two hosts were college dropouts, while Sarah Lane and Brendan Moran (who both had degrees) were not hosts. --Aaron

Contents 1 Signature? 2 kevins myspace 3 Article Content 4 Links 5 Structure of the article 6 Graduated or Dropped Out? 7 Level L Security clearance 8 Net worth 9 Born in?

[edit] Signature?

Can somebody tell me why the hell his signature needs to be on wikipedia?

I agree completely - how is this relavent to the article? I've been tempted to vote on taking it down, but haven't had time. Anyone object? Any reasons why it should be there? Defkkon 21:52, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Alright, I removed it since no one objected. If someone can think of a good reason to bring it back, we can discuss it. Defkkon 23:03, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Defkkon --Hergio 23:53, 23 December 2005 (UTC)[[]]

Someone has readded his signature again since then, I have removed it from this article and nominated such an image for deletion. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 14:23, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Occasionally appeared on twit...?

[edit] kevins myspace

i remember on an episode of diggnation where kevin metioned a link to his personal myspace and so did alex, im to lazy to search through the archive of videos so dose anyone remember the link to it?

--Joe dude 00:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

It's here.

Adrian Lamo · (talk) · (mail) · 04:38, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

thanks, im going to add it to the external links --Joe dude 23:27, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Content

The content of this article is going downhill. We need to make sure it stays encyclopedia and factual. I've removed the following sections:

Through his show he has also become known as a beer lover (a trademark is to open the show describing which beer they're currently drinking), a person :with only 4 toes on his right root (Diggnation Episode 21), and also likes the 2 or 3 women that like diggnation (Any Diggnation). It's also rumoured :that he had plans to call the show "KevinNation" but in the end decided it would be too egocentric.

I don't have a problem with the beer comments, since its true that they open the show with conversation about beer. However, I do have an issue with the rest. I've listened to every Diggnation since the beginning, and nowhere has he mentioned having four toes. There also aren't any references to support this. The comment regarding the girls is also pointless - are we gossiping like highschoolers? The "Kevin likes her" stuff shouldn't be in the article. Defkkon 13:35, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links

Is it me, or is the list of external links for this page ridiculously long? I mean, do we really need a link for Kevin's "digging" history or his "moblog"? Even the Digg, Diggnation, and Revision3 links are redundant when they are linked up in the previous section. --Inaxdaze 15:22, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Structure of the article

I did some major changes in the structure of the article, since it was hard to follow subject-wise. Podcasting being a subsection of Internet is intentionnal. I agree with Inaxdaze concerning the lenght of external links, so I choped what I considered useless. Every podcast under the Revision3 banner should not be listed there IMO.

I also updated his picture. Laurent 14:32, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Graduated or Dropped Out?

I was reading the lastest issue of BusinessWeek (online here) with Kevin on the cover, and it says that he dropped out of the University of Las Vegas:

In 1999 he dropped out of the University of Las Vegas to join the action in Silicon Valley

In this wiki it says he graduated college from there. Does anyone know which one is correct? Ihatecrayons 07:53, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Level L Security clearance

I'm new here, but is that supposed to mean anything? Or is it an elaborate vandalism attempt? Alamandrax 16:51, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

• "The lower-level L clearance is sufficient for access to Secret Formerly Restricted Data and National Security Information, as well as Confidential Restricted Data, Formerly Restricted Data, and National Security Information." - Classified_information_in_the_United_States#Restricted_data - Minkus 04:23, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Ko tas nozime es nezinu man patik caci? WKilis

[edit] Net worth

"Net worth: Broke (contrary to popular belief)"

That seems a little immature. Can we at least find a better word for broke or just mention that his only revenue is advertising (until he sells Digg… if he does so).

→Hey, I took out the "Spouse" and "Net Worth" fields from his little description, because they were unnecessary / inaccurate respectively.

[edit] Born in?

The article says LV Nevada but according to this interview from G4 [1] it says he was born in California I am going to look into this further and see if I can get a more precise birth location. SirGrant 22:23, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

He commonly mentions growing up in LV on Diggnation FyreFiend 06:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

The article I cited says he was BORN in california then moves to LV at an early age. So you can be born somewhere but grow up somewhere else if you move. SirGrant 00:56, 23 March 2007 (UTC)