RE: What's a geek?

2009-05-15 Thread Bryan O'Neal
list Subject: OT : What's a geek? The age old question never ends... RMS stereotype vs social media stereotype: http://blog.seanbonner.com/2009/05/13/geeks/ PC vs Mac: http://twitter.com/Zadi/statuses/1788803337 :-) ymmv, C.G. -- powerofpri...@gmail.com Carlos Macedo Gomes _sic itur ad

Re: What's a geek?

2009-05-15 Thread mike havens
...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] *On Behalf Of *Carlos Macedo Gomes *Sent:* Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:37 PM *To:* Main PLUG discussion list *Subject:* OT : What's a geek? The age old question never ends... RMS stereotype vs social media stereotype: http://blog.seanbonner.com/2009/05/13/geeks

Re: OT : What's a geek?

2009-05-14 Thread Joshua Zeidner
re: 'social computing' . Its amazing how quickly any kind of useful medium on the net becomes advertising real estate. Anyone remember what the net was like 10 years ago? lots of happy helpful people who would love to explain their research, interests, hobbies and pet pictures to you. Now its

OT : What's a geek?

2009-05-13 Thread Carlos Macedo Gomes
The age old question never ends... RMS stereotype vs social media stereotype: http://blog.seanbonner.com/2009/05/13/geeks/ PC vs Mac: http://twitter.com/Zadi/statuses/1788803337 :-) ymmv, C.G. -- powerofpri...@gmail.com Carlos Macedo Gomes _sic itur ad astra_ http://claimid.com/cmgomes

Re: OT : What's a geek?

2009-05-13 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 16:36 -0700, Carlos Macedo Gomes wrote: PC vs Mac: http://twitter.com/Zadi/statuses/1788803337 I don't know who this Zadi is, and can't figure out what she actually does beyond self-promotion but she is clearly adorable and tech savvy and undermines any stereotype of

Re: OT : What's a geek?

2009-05-13 Thread Jim March
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Re: OT : What's a geek?

2009-05-13 Thread Joshua Zeidner
Im not sure I get this one, so this socially well adjusted and kinda attractive person got famous by using the thing made by the geek? perhaps this stands as a reason open source doesn't work, because RMS should be charging the socially well adjusted and kinda attractive person big bucks to use

Re: OT : What's a geek?

2009-05-13 Thread Carlos Macedo Gomes
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Joshua Zeidner jjzeid...@gmail.com wrote: Im not sure I get this one, so this socially well adjusted and kinda attractive person got famous by using the thing made by the geek? The meme is playing out in parts of social computing space over the last couple days