Just about 2 weeks ago I wrote about testing out Reddit’s new ‘create a Reddit‘ feature. As I explained at the time I thought it provided the perfect way to test out the supposed ‘Elite Digg‘ idea that Dave Winer laid out back in November.

Thus the ‘Elite Tech News’ Reddit was born at the URL: http://reddit.com/r/l33t/. While I wasn’t sure anyone would actually join as first of all I was somewhat skeptical of the idea and second of all I wasn’t sure if anyone would even find it beyond my blog, I was surprised when I checked it a few days later and a handful of people had subscribed.

I decided to get more people involved and contacted Louis Gray, Steven Hodson, and Frederic Lardinois to help contribute stories, they all gracious agreed. We started growing quicker.

Then last week Mashable writer Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins invited me to do a podcast with him about the idea (embedded below). Right before that aired we hit the 100 subscriber plateau.

After the show I invited Mark to join in helping out as well as Jason Kaneshiro. Since that time (one week ago), we’re now just about to cross 300 subscribers and are quickly working our way up the ‘Other Reddits’ list (currently on page 3).

Maybe the rapid growth has something to do with Digg becoming increasingly less tech-centric, or maybe it’s just a fluke, but if you’re interested in tech news, feel free to check out the Elite Tech Reddit.