At Gnomedex, there is a lot of value in monitoring the back channel in Twitter while the people are on stage. I know Pirillo almost wishes it weren’t there (he said as much on Twitter), but it is valuable. And one of the nuggets I saw over Twitter was this:

The most inspiring speakers at #gnomedex have a phrase in common: “…so I tried an experiment.”

If my memory serves me correctly, this was tweeted by Derek Miller.

And I really like this observation. So many things that we use today and will use in the future start by some geek giving something a try and seeing if it works. In fact, that goes right to the heart of what a geek is in the first place.

Right on.