My Geek Chic

So as one of my LATI assignments (I'm cleaning up "holes" in my work this weekend) I had to take a quiz to test my "Geek Chic."

I pretty much could have told anyone, without spending 2 minutes of my life on a quiz, that I have none. Or none of the technological variety. My geekdom is strictly literary geekdom, not tech geekdom. So it was absolutely no surprise to me to discover that my score was 20, which = "stuck in the last century."

If you've read my "oh, poor me" posts from before about my tenuous relationship with technology, then you know what a lost cause I am. But that's ok. I accept the fact that when this is all over with, I'll know more but use the same. And that's fine with me.

When I was listening to the Del.icio.us podcast, I heard the magic question I want to ask myself: "How do you manage all that information?" (This is a recurring theme in my battle with technology. I can barely manage a set of car keys, a plant, and a child. More than that is really asking a lot.) I'm looking forward to someone who uses this stuff showing me its value for me. I think that's really the bottom line.

The Technerati Tour was interesting, and it sort of made sense to me. I mean, I have a LibraryThing account, and I use tags for it, so I'm familiar with the concept of tagging - I just don't really use it. I mean, I review all my books there and tag them, but I don't search those tags to see what other people read. Maybe I should. In fact, maybe I'll make that my project this week, to search LibraryThing for one of my own tags and see what I come up with. It's a start, I suppose.