We all need our rest. Some of us, though, catch our catnaps at more vulnerable times than others. For that reason, I’ve coined the term geeksleep, which hasn’t exactly caught on since I started using it in March, but still has enough breath left in its lungs to keep knocking at the door of global Internet meme-hood. What exactly is geeksleep? Well, as defined in Geeksleep #1, it’s the following:

Geeksleep: (noun) 1. the act of sleeping during a technology conference or while involved in any geek-like activity. 2. sleep performed by anyone who could be described as a geek. (verb) 1. to capture a geeksleeper on camera and post his/her picture to Flickr with the “geeksleep” tag.

Now, to be sure, I do my own share of geeksleeping. Like Dan Miller above, I even caught a couple of winks during the recent State of Play / Terra Nova symposium. But no one seems to have captured me on camera (that I know of). Clearly, we need to rectify that situation. Thus this post.

As I write this there are only three geeksleep pics on Flickr, but I’m hoping for more. So 3pointD invites you to geeksleep an unsuspecting snoozer near you. The possibilities are endless: geeksleep games, geeksleep social networks, geeksleep as lifelogging, geeksleep bounties ($10 to the first person to geeksleep Peter Ludlow, Ted Castronova, Jerry Paffendorf or myself). Fun!