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This is ROFLcon! I can has ROFLcon?
Oh, the memes we’ll say. Oh, the shenanigans we’ll have.
I just bought my ticket to ROFLcon—I could never forgive myself for missing out on something this awesome, in my backyard no less.
So yes, I’m going to go. I’m going to blog it. I’m going to take pictures. I’m going [...]

I’m going to add my voice to the chorus of confusion over reporters-as-programmers. Howard Owens says reporters should go for the gusto and get some coding skills, though fluency is not requisite. Matt Waite says something similar: “The idea is to create new forms of journalism with whatever tools we can, and if they don’t [...]

The flickr greeting I received today was both unintentionally quite funny and a bit unnerving at the same time:

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Reaction #1 (too-cool-for-this neo-geek-hipster wanna-be snark): O RLY?
Reaction #2 (cripplingly self-conscious): is my greek so bad that flickr assumes i don’t even know how to say hello?
Reaction I should have had: [...]

I, like any respectable geek, really dig Wil Wheaton’s blog. For the uninitiated, Wil’s the actor who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, the young ensign that so many loved to hate. Except me, because I wanted to be him. Precocious kid on the same bridge as Captain Picard? Hell yes!
Not to [...]