Geeks Go Wild at Gnomedex

bscience writes "I just arrived at the 4th annual Gnomedex conference kicking off this weekend in Lake Tahoe, California. Thursday night began the Geek Convention with a room packed full of bloggers watching and writing about the presidential debate. Friday and Saturday bring Woz, Wheaton, Pirillo and an entire cast of alpha geeks reporting in every chance they can."

Comments

Change the buzzword

[tod_miller]

I think 'blogging' is now officially an overstretched term.

This is simply journalism, and I hope the quality and opinion they bring does something to increase signal to noise, unlike blogging in general which tends to decrease it, at least in terms of google.

I am not against blogging, only the missues of the word.

This is merely using an interface to publishing for journalistic / commentary purposes.

If blogging gets tagged onto every single convienient input, we won't ever ssh in or ftp anything - we will blog in securely, and blog that file over there, and blog a message to whats his face.

Calm down on the blogging!

Re:Change the buzzword

[ctr2sprt]

"I think I finally understand this game! The score is three blogs to four antiblogs and the infield blog rule is in effect."

Re:Change the buzzword

[DenDave]

The concept of self-publishing has been around since the early days of the net. The difference is that now it has become a trendy thing that non-geeks can do too. So my mom can blog about recipes using a nifty tool like movable type, my sister has an account on a blog hoster where she talks about her kids and me, well I actually don't have one. The thing is, not only are my family people who have taken the trendy blog to deliver the promise of self-publishing, companies have seen it too. Many major companies encourage blogs and use them for what they are, low-cost self publishing systems. I personally feel this to be a good thing, I like it when people can exchange views without too much intermediaries. For us here on /. blogging may seem to be something with a "so what" value but for people that are not as "plugged in" as we are it is a wonderfully usefull tool for communication and expression. I vote to keep the blogging around and I think we should let it's destiny, as a phenomenon and word, be determined by those who do it...

Re:Change the buzzword

[tod_miller]

There are other forms of publishing.

I like to call them:

e-mail
forums
irc
IM

They save us from the deluge of pointless information most mortals generate.

If they want to spout veiws, do it in a directed way. Unfortunately search engines can contaminate easily.

You can't just *anyone* have an opinion! Gee, next thing you will be saying women should be allowed to vote... pah, as if...

Re:Change the buzzword

[DenDave]

LOL! You can't just *anyone* have an opinion! Gee, next thing you will be saying women should be allowed to vote... pah, as if.. well you just vented one so your point is?

People's Front Against Blogs

[Anonymous Coward]

First off, let me say that "blog" sounds like something smelly that you call a plumber to take care of because your toilet is clogged up.

Second - WTF is the big deal? Random people write shit on web pages. Who cares? It's like going down to the corner bar and listening to some blowhard, except that now he can reach millions of people if they are so bored that they want to read about some dweeb's opinions.

Why couldn't they just get a room full of people to talk about the debate? Ooooh, they write it on the web! Wow! That makes it important! Different! High tech! Blog blog blog.

Join the resistance, the People's Front Against Blogs!

Against what?

[samael]

So you want to form the people's front against writing things down?

That's basically what your argument adds up to...

Re:Against what?

[samael]

Have you stopped taking cocaine now?

I had the most terrible vision

[linzeal]

Of something like this with pasty geeks running around bearing all and making gutteral noises around water-cooled rigs and supercomputers.

The horror...

[Sanjuro]

Images and video soon to follow of geeks raising their shirts to show their new Tux tattoos on their pasty white bellies...

Gnomedex?

[Brandybuck]

Why is it called Gnomedex? Perusing the site it doesn't seem to have anything to due with Gnome. The conference schedule is chock full of stuff about blogging and "Managing your Digital Lifestyle", but nothing at all about Gnome.