Digg has announced on their blog the creation of ‘Digg Town Halls’, a series of meetings that will be held on a “regular basis”. The first of these will be on February 25th and will be webcast live and made available for download afterwards.

This is of course in response to the mini blow-up that happened a couple weeks ago where some prominent users of Digg felt shafted by an algorithm change that made it substantially harder for them to get their stories on the front page of the site. Both Jay Adelson (CEO) and Kevin Rose (Founder) appeared on the weekly live-streamed podcast The Drill Down, and the town hall idea is one of the potential solutions they laid out at the time.

While it’s not exactly clear from the post as to how these town halls will go down, it would seem from the wording that it will be some kind of live show on one of the video-streaming sites where users can either call in or type in questions which Kevin and Jay will answer.

Also mentioned is the possibility of going on a meet-up tour, which sounds a lot like Diggnation, but perhaps more somber – and more sober.

Though not everyone is happy with the steps Digg is taking to be more in-tuned with its user base, to me these town halls seem like a long-overdue step in the right direction. It’s certainly debatable as to whether Digg would change at all if the hardcore users left as others would seemingly rise in their place, but without changes eventually those users would feel slighted as well – and so on until the only people using Digg would be users in passing and content quality would drop quickly.

More thoughts:

• Full Circle: Slashdot Thinks Digg’s Crowd Is Its Weakness
• Testing Out Reddit’s New ‘Create a Reddit’ Feature
• Revision3 Launches ‘The Digg Reel’, a ‘DiggVideoNation’ that Makes Digg Comments Useful?
• Digg Now Pimping MacWorld – Attempting To Becomes the Go-To Mac Rumor Site?
• Digg’s Adelson Talks Acquisitions, Foreign Markets Expansion, and the Non-Ranking Ranking System
• Digg Hires Firm To Help With Potential Sale
• Dave Winer Wants to Create an ‘Elite Digg’
• Mr. Rose, Tear Down This Wall! (that hides the bury data)