digerati

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Like plenty of digerati, apparently, I've discovered FriendFeed, a sort of social media - and feed-sharing aggregation service where I can "follow" a bunch of people's doings, whether they post stuff ... wireless

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  1. plural noun People who are knowledgeable about digital technologies such as computer programming and design: "the chasm between the high claims of the digerati and the misadventures of the novice Net user” (Publisher's Weekly).

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  • And, while it may be for the fame, or as we say in skiffy, egoboo — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Egoboo —, renown among the digerati is slow to come and hard to quantify. —  Asimov's SF, October-November2006
  • In that sense, this is the perfect novel not just for the digerati, but for anyone who finds the present more and more incomprehensible. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
  • The seesaw of contradictory reports had the digerati, um, atwitter since last night when Michael Arrington, from the technology blog, TechCrunch, posted an article saying, "Here's a heck of a rumor that we've sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter." —  SFGate: Top News Stories
  • The seesaw of contradictory reports has had the digerati, um, a'twitter since Michael Arrington, from the technology blog TechCrunch, posted an article saying, "Here's a heck of a rumor that we've sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter." —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Like plenty of digerati, apparently, I've discovered FriendFeed, a sort of social media - and feed-sharing aggregation service where I can "follow" a bunch of people's doings, whether they post stuff ... wireless —  Tech Beat - BusinessWeek
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