“New Yorkers: We’re geeks too” from CNET
CNet wrote a nice article about how we’re all geeks here to in New York. So take that West Coast. Apparently there was some question about our technology-loving credentials.
But others insist that people who think New York isn’t a geek’s playground just need to look a little harder. The Big Apple, they say, definitely has its geek crowd; they’re just not as easily defined by their love of technology.
Best of all though, Come Out and Play is beginning to look like an institution. After a recent mention and exhortation for GPS games at next year’s festival in O’Reilly’s Radar blog, we get this nice mention here:
Social tech has expanded beyond Meetup, too. Last month, the Come Out and Play Festival saw Manhattan’s streets as a platform for “big games”: large-scale versions of Space Invaders and Assassins, digital-camera-driven scavenger hunts and pay phone races.
The whole event had its roots in a course taught in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, the master’s degree track that also spawned Dennis Crowley’s Dodgeball. And early in October, a whole host of New York techies, including Crowley and Spiegel, gathered for an overnight “un-conference” called BarCampNYC.