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Pushing a Geek Agenda with Trending Topics

I’ve seen my share of bitching and moaning about how lame the trending topics on Twitter have become. Well with the mainstream comes the TMZ crowd so unfortunately it’s a sign of the times. Remember when geeks ran Twitter? Remember Color Wars? Hopefully in the future we’ll be able to have trending topics created based on our social graph. But until that day comes, I had a goofy idea thinking it might be fun to have a weekly organized way to promote geekdom across the trendingsphere. That idea came in the way of trying to create a geek meme on a weekly basis.

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My idea would be to throw up a site where people could come up with ideas for a topic that is voted on a weekly basis and then executed on a given day. Perhaps it could be known as #trendingtuesday.  The website would also provide an archive of #trendingtuesday’s past. I could probably throw up the site fairly easily using a CMS platform like Pligg or cobble one together with Drupal to get things started. It would also be cool to have a real-time feed of the topic on the site during the day it runs. Perhaps this is just my brain acting up since I may be over caffeinated but I thought it might be fun to do.

I’ll start it off today with the idea that got me thinking about this in the first place. I thought it would be fun to reveal things that we may be embarrassed to admit in the form of #geekconfessions. (Note: Guess I’m not the innovator here. I just searched Twitter and it appears that @direflail came up with this idea as well).  So I plan on shooting out a few tweets today using the hashtag and see where it goes.

So if this doesn’t take off, how about using a similar plan to create a trending topic calling out the actions of #douchebags? Now that sounds like a very necessary public service.

Idea for a New Vanity Business Card

I’ve begun thinking about creating some print materials for Lifestream Blog including some stickers, business cards, and possibly a t-shirt (which I’m sure I’d be the only one buying) just to have something to hand out at any events I go to this year.

Thinking about what to list on a business card without it getting cluttered or noisy can be challenging. So I went off on a tangent (as I often do) and thought about an idea for an intriguingly simple vanity card which I think would be so cool. It would be akin to say a minimalist theme to Wordpress to give you some idea in geek speak. So I decided to create a mockup of my idea to see what it would look like.

What do you think? If someone gave you this card how would you react? What would your first instinct be? My thoughts are that I would visit the the username url at twitter.com/krynsky which would be cool because I could list full details there. But is that what you would do? The card could also act as a geek filter losing those who are clueless along the way. I haven’t decided yet if that’s good or bad :). Is this idea worthy or is it geek pretentious? What do you think?