Tonight I got peer-pressured into participating in my first-ever BeerCast. :) I was really darn tired and was heading to bed, but in the end a change in venue to somewhere closer persuaded me to at least put in an appearance. After all, I've never been in a REAL podcast before. Just some cute little ones of the ODEO variety.

As it turned out, it was awesome! Kris hooked up a group of four of us to continue a conversation that Len and I had started earlier in the van on the way to the dogsledding... kind of about meditation and spiritual practice as an antidote to the crazy tech-induced ADD I blogged about yesterday. And it was really great for me to get to engage in the evening's activity from a place that feels meaningful to me. I suppose it gave me hope that there really are ways for me to draw together all the things I've been engaged in -- from geekery to yoga and spirituality to social change. Who knew that pod/beercasting could be so soul-affirming?

So if I want to become fully Web 2.0 buzzword compliant in order to be as cool as the geeks I'm hanging out with this week...



...will I really have to start referring to things like my DLA? Or my PSP? In the middle of sentences as if everyone knows what I'm talking about? (Which they would, here at Blogs N Dogs?)

I've thought in the past that there is definitely a niche for people who can communicate between the worlds of geeks and normal people. "Sarah Pullman, Web 2.0 Buzzword Translator". Maybe that's my mission in the world?

Now, for anyone who was wondering and didn't already know, a DLA is a Digital Lifestyle Aggregator, and a PSP is a Playstation Portable. Which is apparently a device upon which one might want to listen to podcasts. How silly of me to have missed that.

I'm at the Blogs n Dogs Conference at the Banff Centre -- well, I'm at the Banff Centre, and the conference starts on Monday. The geeking started several hours ago, though. I've been sitting here in our suite, surrounded by the esteemed faculty, and there have been multiple laptops open since just after dinner. Including mine.

Really, I've had latent geek tendencies for years, but I'm almost frightened at the potential of this conference to push me over the edge. I'll be learning from the best here, no doubt about it. I'll be SO Web 2.0 Buzzword Compliant within a day or two... (it'll make Captain Ajax proud.)