Watch the video above to hear Scoble's thoughts on how SxSWi has grown over the past decade from a few "geeks off in the corner" to a massive gathering, what technology he's most excited about right now (Highlight gets a mention), his time on the StartupBus, why he's still bullish on Google+, the kind of startup pitch he's sick of hearing, and lots more.
Five of the most promising nerds who sign up to facebook.com/geekoftheyearuk will be picked for a geek-off on 30 November, where comedians Adam Bloom and Carl Donnelly will provide the laughs.
But in that year's ImageNet competition, an annual geek-off in which teams compete to discern whether, for example, an image contains a tiger or not, one team, lead by Alex Krizhevsky, "crushed the competition," says Lissymyr.
There's even a real-life geek-off (yes, the type with chickens)!
And before Kelly wowed Kim by blowing an eleven-inch bubble outside of the Magic Castle in Hollywood (thus earning the honorable title of Bubblegum Queen), she was sitting in a dark corner of the art-rock free-jazz experimental music scene listening to the same five music geeks wank off onstage for their own self-absorbed egomaniacal amusement.
As it's meant to be a medieval Olympics they invite the local sword geek to show off his big, long, swords to enthusiastic men.
If liberals are hesitant to celebrate the arrest of a fourteen year-old science geek for showing off his "invention" at school, we're actually on the right side of the Enlightenment.
"It's a way for geeks to show off and be recognized by their peers," Moss says.
CoolMiniOrNot: CoolMiniOrNot started out as a website where geeks could show off their ability to paint Dungeons & Dragons figurines.
