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i consider myself a nerd as well if that helps :-)
by jasonmcalacanis 16y ago
i consider myself a nerd as well if that helps :-)
- petercooper 16y agoThe prevailing wind, though, has somewhat shifted toward "geek" as a more acceptable collective term in the last few years (and "nerd" as having more negative qualities of social ineptitude). Only one survey of many but Wired's (2878 votes) swung very strongly to the favor of "geek": http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/great-geek-debates-geek-vs-nerd/ http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/great-geek-debates-geek... .. my own on Twitter was a 6:1 ratio pro-geek. (A rather uncool admission, I've been doing some research and polling on this lately for non-disclosable reasons. An interesting and rather ambivalent discussion of nerd vs geek is given in the preface of Rands' "Being Geek" - for those who are interested. Given your significant audience, though, it'd be interesting if you could poll them on it too ;-))