G33k L33t

Welcome to 2012!  I hope you are as excited about the new year as I am. I think 2012 will bring great things. For starters, I am so excited about the potential for this blog.  Bringing a community of g33ks, nerds, dweebs and dorks together sounds like a good time to me!

Couple updates to the g33king out community.  First, you may notice that the default "followers" has been updated corrected to "g33k l33t".  If you consider yourself a g33k, chances are you already know what l33t (aka leet) means and so during the following explanation you will most likely be rolling your eyes, grinning madly since you are "in the know" and wondering who in the world doesn't know what l33t refers to.  But, for those who haven't heard the expression "leet", here's what I'm referencing....

From wikipedia: (how did we ever live without wikipedia, the source of all answers to our burning questions? Do you know you can even wikipedia "wikipedia"? Now you do!)

Source: Wikipedia

So, it boils down to combining two somewhat disparate concepts into the perfect description for the followers of this blog....the cream of the crop g33ks.  How perfect.


Other additions to the g33king out community....there is now a g33king out twitter account (@g33kingout), as well as email if you have any burning questions, topics, etc and need to reach us (g33kingout@gmail.com). We look forward to hearing from you!!

Welcome to g33king out

Welcome to g33king out!!  Yes, the URL for geeking with e's was taken, so we'll have to move forward with 3s for e's.  Whatever it takes to call this blog "geeking out".  If you are visiting this blog, then you have probably at one time been referred to or considered yourself one of the following: geek, dork, nerd, and one that I haven't heard in awhile, dweeb.  As I was thinking about starting this blog, I wondered, what IS the difference between a nerd and a geek?  Apparently, this is a question that others are curious about (refer to the list above as the people who are interested in this debate). 

I found this helpful venn diagram to help answer this little question of what means what:

Compliments of greatwhitesnark

As you can clearly see, based on this venn diagram, being a geek is really a great compliment...intelligence and obsession, sure, why not?  And, yes, it wasn't until I saw this venn that the word "dweeb" even came to mind.  Do people even use that word anymore?  Watch out for a dweeb comeback!!

So, let's get to the purpose of this blog.  I want this blog to be a space for collecting illuminating articles, funny illustrations and most importantly, engaging conversation around anything this audience wants to geek out about.  For my part, I'm probably going to geek out about how the marketing landscape is changing and who and what is being done to help understand the value of all things digital.

Look forward to geeking out together!!!