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CajunCenturion

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Who in here is a member of the digerati?

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If I have to ask what that is, I guess I'm not one, eh?

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I'm not one yet, but I plan to be when I get my degree in engineering! I still have time to break in, maybe create a new title for myself. I'd be in good company... Esther Dyson, Linda Stone, Sherry Turkle, and... Dollie?

"Who are the "digerati" and why are they "the cyber elite"? They are the doers, thinkers, and writers who have tremendous influence on the emerging communication revolution. They are not on the frontier, they are the frontier."
 
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What, this isn't about
www.digerati.com said:
Digerati has pioneered the development of tariff compliance software for almost 10 years now.
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I get the feeling that the Wikipedia entry was written by a member of the group.

Are you in the group, CC?

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Wikipedia took a dire hit (IMHO) this week with the revelation of the fake entry regarding journalist Sieganthal.

I'm clearly not a "digerati" since prior to this week I didn't know Wikipedia was a place where anyone could post an entry. No way I trust a site like that.

Tim

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[Wandering off topic with everyone else]
[ul][li]Point 1:Taken from here:
slashdot.org said:
Nature magazine recently conducted a head-to-head competition between Wikipedia and Britannica, having experts compare 42 science-related articles. The result was that Wikipedia had about 4 errors per article, while Britannica had about 3. However, a pair of endevouring Wikipedians dug a little deeper and discovered that the Wikipedia articles in the sample were, on average, 2.6 times longer than Britannica's - meaning Wikipedia has an error rate far less than Britannica's.
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More info here[/li]
[li]Point 2: Wikipedia has just passed a new official policy to "Semi-protect" entries to help keep this kind of thing from happening.[/li][/ul]

In my view, most of Wikipedia is highly reliable. The idea that any flagrant untruths will quickly be fixed by the community seems to work - except in the rarely visited entries (like Sieganthal's).
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I apologize profusely for writing "wikipedia" as it seems to have completely trolled the thread off-topic.

Did *nobody* notice the OTHER LINK that I posted?

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Hmm. Sorry about the ugly link in my quote box above. TGML doesn't seem to like it for some reason. The link is:

Trevoke, perhaps it's my fault for joking that the wikipedia article seems to have been written by a member of the group.

I did see your other link, and I had already come across it on my own when googling, trying to figure out what the 'Digerati' is. Obviously, I'm not a member since I had never heard of them.

My first thought upon seeing the thread title was that this might be the current, internet-age version of the Illuminati.

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anotherhiggins : I didn't even get that far. Although I did think of the Illuminati, I was wondering if maybe it wasn't some kind of joke based on the Reader's Digest (In French, 'to digest' is 'digerer', so I think you can see how my muddled mind went there).

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Wikipedia?, Google? web sites?

Has anyone checked -- what's the name of that reference -- oh yeah, a dictionary? :)

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Ah, you meant in a general sense! Well, that, too, is covered in the Wikipedia article:
wikipedia said:
Actually, says Tim Race, the first use of "digerati" was in a Jan. 29, 1992 New York Times article, "Pools of Memory, Waves of Dispute," by John Markoff, into which I edited the term. The article was about a controversy engendered by a George Gilder article that had recently appeared in Upside magazine. In a March 1, 1992 "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine, William Safire noted the coinage and gave me the honor of defining it, which we did like so:

Digerati, n.pl. -- people highly skilled in the processing and manipulation of digital information; wealthy or scholarly techno-nerds.
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Or from From Websters:
Main Entry: di·ge·ra·ti
Pronunciation: "di-j&-'rä-(")tE
Function: noun plural
Etymology: digital + -erati (as in literati)
: persons well versed in computer use and technology

I just assumed you meant the group described at
I guess my continued boneheadedness disqualifies me for the general digerati, too. [sad]

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I think I've managed to hack my way out of this one... :cool:

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CC ... The Digerati you appear to be referring to, exist at many levels of understanding & competency. I consider myself computer literate & am the de facto "IT guy" where I work, but I would compare as an absolute novice with some here at Tek-Tips, or even Eng-Tips.

What level are you enquiring after? (Or should that be about?)

MERRY CHRISTMAS
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I have no particular level in mind; just food for thought.

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>Who in here is a member of the digerati?
Digerati? [dazed] (a trick question!)
Since I didn't know that word, I looked for its definition and this is what I found:

Encarta
computer experts: people with expertise in computers, the Internet, or the World Wide Web ( informal )

Compact Oxford
people with expertise in information technology.

Merriam-Webster
persons well versed in computer use and technology

The American Heritage
People who are knowledgeable about digital technologies such as computer programming and design

Infoplease
people skilled with or knowledgeable about computers.

High-Tech Dictionary
People who are experts in information technology.

Macquarie Dictionary
the pretentious elite of the IT world.

Michael Quinion
The Ending -ati
people with expertise or professional involvement in information technology (sometimes used neutrally)
Through The Blender
are the computing elite leading the information technology revolution

You see, for some people it means "computer experts", but others use it for "the wealthy elite leading the IT world". Wikipedia shows both meanings.

The way I understand it, I am not a digerati, yet I am a computer-literate person.
 
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I think the term goes beyond mere computer experts, to indicate the computer elite: Those who have made significant fortunes off computers, or have acheived fame via their knowledge of computers.

Steve Wozniak is an example of the first, Kevin Mitnick of the second, and Bill Gates falls into both categories.

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