At The Next Web Conference 2008 the cult podcast Diggnation will be doing its second Live show outside the USA, the first being in London at FOWA last year (just to clarify, by live I mean in front of an audience, as opposed to just from a sidewalk somewhere).

If you don’t know what Diggnation is, you can find a summary from when I wrote about the London Diggnation. So why am I writing about this one? Well last time Diggnation did a live show Kevin and Alex planned to stream the event live using Yahoo! Live which would have been a fantastic idea but Yahoo! Live wasn’t up to the task and crashed with no more than 200 people watching. Even before it crashed there was massive time-lags which meant that “chats” never got sent.

So this time after testing various live streaming software, such as Qik (which is basically a mobile application), over the last couple of weeks, Kevin Rose and the Diggnation team are going to stream the event using an infrastructure more akin to the sort of thing used for the Champions League Final. According to Patrick de Laive, one of the organisers of The Next Web:

We’ve teamed up with NOS, Cross Media Ventures, Team.tv, and TechCrunch (media partner), to make this stream available for thousands and thousands of people, no matter where you live.

Amsterdam is going to be fantastic, especially for those of us in Europe as it will mean that we can watch the show at a reasonable time instead of silly O’Clock in the morning. Americans will also be able to watch it at a reasonable time; well at least in their lunch break or something.

So how do you watch it I hear you say? Well get yourself onto revision 3 at 6pm tomorrow (that’s 5pm UK time) CET and if you don’t already have an account register and have a chat with the guys online.

For those of you wanting to watch the real thing, get yourself on a flight to Amsterdam and go to the show. I’ve been fortunate enough to make it to two and I had a ball at both.

Header image (of a Diggnation audience): psd on flickr

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