I'm very comfortable talking all day about tagging and open source and Ajax and the like. I don't know what it is - I'm certainly no programmer and don't understand how it works - but I love it. It makes my heart beat a little faster. I had this conversation yesterday evening with one of my favourite Flockstars...we both agreed that coming to SF was like coming home.

Where we come from, you just can't talk like we do here. I can just imagine going to a mixer in Toronto and striking up a conversation about the long tail and social networks and open source and the power of the blogosphere. Actually, I used to. The results were not pretty. I either got into arguments with non-believers or I watched as my 'audience' looked desperately for an 'out' of the conversation.

I'm finally getting used to the fact that those conversations are commonplace in my circle of new friends. So much that I'm getting fuzzy on the fact that we are a total niche. I used to come home and revel in the fact that I just spent the evening discussing tagging, memes, metadata and folksonomies, now I come home and try to continue the conversation with my husband and son, who both look at me like I'm speaking in tongues.

I swear, though, it's like a drug. I just can't get enough of it.

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