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Geeks as the Media at Notacon
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?"
Natocom is not what it used to be. I've been attending for the past couple of years seeing how it transformed into "just another con". I made a huge post at my blog and can't be arsed to copy/paste.
You can read it here. Just don't slashdot it damnit!
Who the fuck are you, and why should I care?
WTF? This link says it was cancelled - note the date of the news item (2 days ago)
"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?"
No it's not. Here's the birth of a new trend learn some history and stop thinking you guys are special and unique snowflakes. People have been sharing new technology and new memes in their niche groups for thousands of years it's a goddamn staple of human history that goes back a hell of a long time.
You mistyped the link. Here's the correct one.
Sounds crappy. How come I've never heard of this conference before?
Sorry no geeks allowed. This website is for nerds only. Please move along and move geek crap out from you.