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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.
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*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: '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
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.
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Carlos Macedo Gomes
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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
Anybody who laughs at this:
http://xkcd.com/583
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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
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