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Geeks as the Media at Notacon

Posted by samzenpus on from the fair-and-balanced dept.

sinnergy writes "One of the Midwest's only remaining "hacker" cons, Notacon, will be happening April 8-10, 2005 in Cleveland. As an interesting subtext, an extraordinary amount of interest in independent media coverage for this event has been occurring. One project includes Jason Scott's Notacon Radio project. The Packet Sniffers are doing their own Notacon TV project. In addition, numerous other online media outlets, oline radio shows and bloggers have really picked up on the idea of events like these being truly valuable to the geek community. Even the local geek radio show is keen on the idea. Richard Thieme, one of the event's selected speakers, has promoted the hacker con as being one of the final bastions of open speech. Is this the birth of a new trend or is this simply geeks doing what they always do... spreading the word about something new and different going on in their world?"

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  1. Cleveland hacks! by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny
    All this bandwidth calling me
    Back where it comes from
    It's such a d00d attitude
    Let's hack where it belongs
    All the script kids growing up on the skids are goin' Cleveland hacks, cleveland hacks
    They're all jackin' in with an old 9-pin
    They're goin' cleveland hacks, cleveland hacks...

    0hi0!

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    1. Re:Cleveland hacks! by wolrahnaes · · Score: 3, Funny

      As a Clevelander (well, actually west of Medina, but close enough), I just had to laugh at that one...

      Dammit....now I'm imagining an episode of the Drew Carey show subtitled in 13375p34|.....

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  2. Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone else find the tone of this intro really amusing?

    "Media giving unprecedented coverage to something you've never heard of"

    Hmmm

  3. Re:Since when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since the 19th century.

  4. Oh my by alex413x · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hello Slashdot! NotaconTV needs bandwidth! If you will be attending and can bring a [large] 100MB switch and/or CAT5 to the con we will hit you up with free schwag! Contact us at contact[@]packetsniffers.org Thanks![packetsniffers.org]

    Wow, a gathering of pot-headed computer geeks sharing ideas and interests. I wish I could go.

  5. I can see it now... by thelastguardian · · Score: 1, Funny

    Richard Thieme, one of the event's selected speakers, has promoted the hacker con as being one of the final bastions of open speech. I can see it now....The day when we geeks finally get the deserving social status other superheros have come to enjoy.... SuperGeek!!! GeekMan!!! GeekWoman!!! GeekDevil!!!! Buhahahaha we are the protector of all freedom and jutice, we are the SuperHero(tm)!!!!

  6. Re:Looking forward to it! by IrishMASMS · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know, some of us who are presenting [http://www.notacon.org/speakers.html#irishmasms] are willing to do so without the shameless plugs... ;)

  7. Re:My Pictures from Notacon 2004 by phiz187 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that a dare?

    -PHiZ

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  8. Re:Looking forward to it! by stephthegeek · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can only dream of achieving such subtlety! ;)

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