I’ve seen references to the Society of Geek Advancement for several months but haven’t been motivated to mention it until tonight when I saw Peter Black post this same video on his blog.
Initially I wasn’t really sure what the “I am a Geek” thing was all about, but reading into this a bit further, it appears that the motives behind the movement are several fold.
According to the Society for Geek Advancement about page:
“THE SOCIETY FOR GEEK ADVANCEMENT was founded upon the principles that we should all embrace our inner and …

Just in the last two days I’ve decided to make some fairly sweeping changes to the commenting system on this blog and have installed the Disqus Comment System. This video is a basic overview of what Disqus is, how you set it up (primarily from the standpoint of self-hosted WordPress blogs), as well as a discussion on the implications that the framework has for readers as well as site owners.
Disqus describes itself as:
“Disqus, pronounced “discuss”, is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. The Disqus comment system …

Gina Minks and I have been having an ongoing discussion this evening about FriendFeed versus Facebook and it’s re-ignited an old train of thought that I’ve been pondering for quite some time now.
By and large the bulk of the online conversations I engage in these days take place on Twitter.  Sure I blog, and I post comments elsewhere, but these tend to be fairly one-off threads.  I’ll write a post here and perhaps receive a comment or two in response every once in a while, but there is rarely many-to-many …

The explosion of mobile devices has gone a really long way to freeing computer users from their desks, and letting them roam in the open, while still engaging and collaborating in many of the same ways they do in more traditional computer environments. Yet there are other ways as well by which you can take your work with you, while leaving your desktop computer or laptop at home. Portable apps are one such example.
This video covers portable apps, including what they are, how you install them, and …

cc licensed flickr photo shared by tnarik
The unthinkable finally happened.  I’ve been suffering from major league social media burn-out for nearly a fortnight and it’s showing no signs of disappearing any time soon.  So rather than post snippy, whinging posts about things that irritate me – which I’ve been inspired to do on several occasions lately – I’m going to take a bit of a break.
Twitter has begun to bore me; I can’t write a blog post to save my life; my RSS subscriptions are regularly cleared without being read; …