This week on the always excellent Command Line podcast, Thomas Gideon -- senior staff technologist for the New America Foundation -- describes his journey from programmer to technology wonk (MP3), explaining the relationship between code and policy.

  • inkfumes

    Wonk? Did I miss the creation of a new colloquialism?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1311861385 Raphael Clancy

    Wonk is a term from politics, it means: “Someone who is just like a nerd but advises people who are too cool to listen to nerds.” ;-D

    • digi_owl

      So where do the wonk stop and the lobbyist start?