geeks Archives - Sky's Blog https://blog.red7.com/tag/geeks/ Communicating in a networked world Mon, 02 Jan 2017 20:09:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://blog.red7.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/skyhi-wind-icon-256x256-120x120.png geeks Archives - Sky's Blog https://blog.red7.com/tag/geeks/ 32 32 Differentiating “geeks” from… whatever https://blog.red7.com/differentiating-geeks-from/ https://blog.red7.com/differentiating-geeks-from/#respond Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:00:11 +0000 http://blog.red7.com/?p=2724 Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you are described as a geek it’s not exactly a compliment? (I always mean it as a compliment, comeon!) That’s because people don’t fully understand the words nerd, dork, dweeb and geek. Here’s the explanation as a cool Venn diagram. Thanks to Xeni at BoingBoing for pointing it […]

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]]> Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you are described as a geek it’s not exactly a compliment? (I always mean it as a compliment, comeon!) That’s because people don’t fully understand the words nerd, dork, dweeb and geek. Here’s the explanation as a cool Venn diagram.

Thanks to Xeni at BoingBoing for pointing it out. And click the diagram to see how the terms relate.

Also see Traveling Geeks. Not Traveling Dweebs, Traveling Nerds or Traveling Dorks.

And here’s an interesting bestiary of geekdom, listing many different types of geeks. I know a few who fall into some, but not all, of the categories.

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