Comments on: Geekier than geeky

By: Gary Farber

Gary Farber — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:52:56 +0000

“Gary Farber is obviously pumpernickel.”

I got a 37. Know very little about Web 2.0, but a bit too much about Star Wars, though mostly just through having poked around the Star Wars website in the past; I’ve actually read none of the comics or novels (other than the original Alan Dean Foster). So just clicked on SW names and put Web 2.0 for anything else.

I quite like pumpernickel, though, with some nice thick Irish butter, please.

By: will u.

will u. — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:19:02 +0000

“Grand Moff Texan” is the name of the CT commenter.

This is one of the few occasions in which I can put the time I spent reading about the “Heir to the Empire” series on Wikipedia to use. Not particularly good use, I admit, but still use.

By: christopher carfi

christopher carfi — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:11:12 +0000

@alex r: they’re all “web 2.0” companies.

http://www.diggwatchblog.com/web-20-logos-and-links/

By: Alex R

Alex R — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:24:29 +0000

OK, I took the quiz, and I read the articles about Web 2.0—and I still don’t get it. What do the non-Star Wars names have to do with Web 2.0, or folksonomies, or AJAX, or anything?

By: christopher carfi

christopher carfi — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:10:46 +0000

navigator…ask, and ye shall receive. per your comment #18 above, we’ve added a “see answers” link at the bottom of the quiz. just for you. (well, sorta.)

By: JJ

JJ — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:33:52 +0000

Grand Moff Tarkin - played by Peter Cushing in the original movie. I clicked on 9 names that I recognized from Star Wars, and left everything else blank. I got a 9. I had a vague idea of what Web 2.0 is, so I probably know more than the average Luddite, but I do resist some technologies that seem ridiculous, spurious, or overpriced. Anyway, here's some info on Web 2.0. JJ

By: DigitalDjigit

DigitalDjigit — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:53:16 +0000

The scoring chart is wrong. Knowing nothing about the subject matter and just randomly guessing one would still get around 50% right – 21 points (exactly what I got) and yet it claims I drank the Kool-Aid.

By: joe o

joe o — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:29:51 +0000

20. lowest score yet. And I even recognized about 7 of the star wars names and one of the web 2.0 companies.

By: tom bach

tom bach — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:03:14 +0000

A 21 without knowing what Web 2.0 is and having seen only the first Star Wars, first in “real” time that is.

By: Eszter

Eszter — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:56:47 +0000

As far as I'm concerned, all this unappreciation of the survey suggests to me that you all are simply not geeky enough, you know, in that cool sort of way.:) AB - I do consider keeping up-to-date on new Web services part of my job.:) If that involves a quiz or video on occasion, so be it, I make those sacrifices.;) John Q. - You can start by checking out my del.icio.us links. I have those post automatically to my more personal blog every day so you could get a daily dose by checking there.

By: mpowell

mpowell — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:16:08 +0000

Their chart is pretty silly. Just random guessing should get half right which would put you in the Too…much…kool-aid… bin.

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:56:56 +0000

Isn’t Tarkin the surname of a CT commenter?

I thought I grokked Web 2.0 and the names on the list meant nothing to me. Am I missing the party where the cool kids are hanging out (again!)?

By: ab

ab — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:56:37 +0000

Eszter, how much research time a day do you spend on finding these things…? ;-)

I’m just envious, I probably should change my discipline.

By: The Navigator

The Navigator — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:35:42 +0000

That quiz is officially lame because it doesn’t tell you which ones you got wrong at the end. You’re just left wondering, “hmm, it did say ‘padme’, right? And that was the Natalie Portman character? I’m not just going crazy here? Or am I?”

Perhaps it is a characteristic of Web 2.0 to make people question and doubt the reliability of information found on the web. In which case this quiz is arguably demonstrating the principles of Web 2.0 while simultaneously quizzing you on them….

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:24:33 +0000

31, doing the same thing as barry.