Saturday, December 22, 2007

Geek Love

What is it like writing about a school you've never been to?

It's 2 AM, and I'm knee-deep in browser tads and paper trying to pull together some grand thesis about the file-sharing culture at Cornell. Somewhere in my research, I found a stats page for the hub chat and saw this:



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1Ashen7331610.141949325"did you look at the ted talks?"

Ted talks! Squee! So college students nerdy enough to watch TED talks are also nerdy enough to bw the most prolific all time user on a hub chat. Do I consider myself in good company?

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