Tim O'Reilly says he gets his best ideas by "watching the alpha geeks." In
this session, O'Reilly and conference program chair Rael Dornfest introduce
some of the folks they're watching and describe why they think what
their guests are doing is so interesting. What these alpha geeks show us are
the latest twists and turns of the hacker saga, the innovations that come
when people who are comfortable with computers "scratch their own itch."