In an interview with Forbes.com, Digg CEO Jay Adelson said that the company wasn't for sale.
When asked if Digg was for sale, Adelson responded:
"No. Digg is not for sale. Our focus is entirely on execution. The only way that Digg would ever be for sale is if someone came to me and could help me achieve my goal ten times better than what we can do alone. There's been a lot of rumors out there, and it's mostly stirred up because of the YouTube acquisition. Basically if you're a Web 2.0 company right now, somebody's going to come up with a rumor."
Adelson also continues to insist that the Digg gets around 1 million 
visitors a day and 10 million uniques a month. He added that he still stands by his comments that comScore and other Internet measurement companies don't offer an accurate measurement of Digg's audience.
He also said that for communities to remain strong, the foundation of the company shouldn't be compensation to the contributors, because then there is the idea that one member is better than another. He things it would work better with smaller communities, but not for Digg.
I'm not sure about this, as many YouTube users are starting to want to be compensated for their contributions. Of course than you get whether the community will be a group of passionate users or people looking to only make money. Does it matter?
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