From Publishing 2.0

According to this I am only marginally a geek. I want to so badly to be a geek, but I don't even know what Ajax is. Of course I am now going to look up all these terms in a sad attempt to pass as a geek.

YOU KNOW YOU’RE A GEEK IF YOU…

1. Have a blog
Yes, blogging software has made it “easy,” but it’s still an inherently geeky thing to do

2. Knowingly use RSS
Or if you know what RSS stands for

3. Understand Web 2.0
Even having heard of the term probably qualifies you

4. Think anything built with Ajax is “cool”
Again, knowing what Ajax is also qualifies you

5. Think blog “A-Listers” are “cool”
We are what we aspire to be

6. Use a “memetracker”
Or if you can define the term

7. Want to own your “attention data”
Or if you know what that means

8. Podcast
Or even if you listen to podcasts

9. Use a beta version of anything
Or if you know what that means

10. Were ever picked on in school
Most of us have been geeks all our lives

Geeks are the trailblazers of the world — the problem is, we’re not nearly as good at mainstreaming our discoveries.

So be proud to be a geek — geeks are the new “cool kids” — but don’t make the mistake of thinking that everyone else is as “cool” as you are.

::less than an hour later including lunch:: I now qualify as a geek by the above standards. I'm surprised that I had totally misunderstood what "meme" means. Wikipedia straightened my right out, but I'll have to do some further reading to really start to get it. Attention data was easy as was Ajax. Meme tracker proved more elusive; few search results. Web 2.0 really just means the emergence of a new internet after the dot.com bubble burst. I already qualified according to the remaining definitions. So back off. I'm a geek and I'm proud. Now for that dream of being a cowboy.....

::a little later:: web 2.0 central