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Billy Gallagher is a writer for TechCrunch. He is also the president and editor in chief of The Stanford Daily. Billy previously worked at The Stanford Daily for two volumes as a managing editor of news. He has also worked in sports and staff development at The Daily. In March of 2012 the Friends of The Stanford Daily awarded him... ? Learn More Last night, I wrote about Kevin Rose not responding to questions on his AMA on Reddit. Rose was at a birthday party last night but has returned to Reddit today and has posted YouTube responses to five Redditers’ questions. After all the coverage on Digg’s sale and Rose personally a few weeks ago and now on the launch of new Digg, it’s very interesting to hear Rose’s thoughts. He does a good job going in-depth in his responses, and seems pretty open. Here are the responses. You can track them, if he posts more, on Rose’s YouTube channel. “In the case of Digg Before, it was really trying to rethink Digg and trying to bring Digg to a more mainst...

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... ? Learn More So Valley veteran Kevin Rose will be at Disrupt SF on September 8th – 12th! Rose will be joining our growing coeterie of distinguished speakers, all of which now include: my former boss Michael Arrington, Marissa Mayer, Vinod Khosla, Marc Benioff, Ron Conway, Ben Horowitz, Joel Klein, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Jessica Alba, Brian Lee, Path’s Dave Morin and Benchmark Capital’s Matt Cohler. In his past startup lives, Rose was the founder of Digg and co-founder of Milk. He is now a Venture Partner at Google Ventures. If you’re itching to join all these amazing peeps, and us, get your tickets now. And there are still opportunities...