Word: digerati
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Right now Slashdot is still mainly for the digerati. The fare is a little more technical than your average nonhacker can handle. But the possibilities of Slashdot's collaborative-news model go way beyond the nerd world. One day the Internet may offer Slashdot-style sites for every niche kind of news. Want to try it? Malda gives away the software that runs Slashdot. Goodbye, Peter Jennings. Hail, Commander Taco...
...convention was both a litmus test and a coming-out party for the new for-profit political digerati, who occupied skyboxes and overflowed a media center that instantly became known as Internet Alley. At Voter.com a site reportedly backed by $50 million in venture capital, 35 computers in a Cyber Cafe spewed briefings, commentary and gavel-to-gavel coverage. "We want to combine really good traditional journalism with edgy contributions from the best guys," says Carl Bernstein, who as executive editor of Voter.com is among a bevy of Old Guard notables to be drawn to the brash new sites...
...Among the Harvard digerati, Georgi is the cutting edge: he actively seeks to make the newest technology part of the House experience. To Lowell House computer science concentrator Paul A. Gusmorino '02--who bemoans his own House's technological dark age but lists Leverett as one of Harvard's most Net savvy communities--the Internet revolution has already transformed other aspects of student life, even if the residential experience hasn't quite caught up. "Today, student groups define themselves by their e-mail lists," he says...
...Despite differing enthusiasm for the newest technology, digerati and administrators alike agree that technology can only serve to complement--and never replace--the "physical community" interaction of a House tea or dining hall meal...
...some digerati--including Wong--are glad that Houses are given the opportunity to express their personal style on their own websites, without centralized direction...