Comments on: Goodbye, Milky

By: flamoot

flamoot — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:29:13 +0000

I thought I recognized Ninjalicious so when it said “Milky” I googled for the names (juxtaposed) and he’s the same person after all.

Oh my god

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:51:14 +0000

Oh, this is terrible. I met him back in YiP too, he was such a nice fellow.

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:01:36 +0000

Mulf, you are operating under a misunderstanding, and that’s OK, since you’re coming in cold from the BoingBoing mention.

The interview footage on the archive.org site is not meant to be “finished”, properly edited footage; that already ended up in the BBS documentary, which took Jeff/Milky’s interview, along with 200 others (250 hours) and culled it down to about 330 minutes in 8 episodes.

Having finished that project (the documentary), I have begun the process of making all the interview footage I shot available, for free, on the archive.org website, so it might have additional use/information in the future.

Regarding the specific style of the interview, I am sorry you decided after 5 minutes how the 3 hour interview went, but in the case of Milky and Liz, I chose a specific conversational style with them in the beginning, helping them remember events and items from over a decade ago, and then, later, giving them the open-ended questions you endorse.

The interviews (this one included) were intended to be about bulletin board systems, and in the time of this interview, I was not sure how technical or not technical we would be getting in the final work, so we go into technical information quite a bit throughout all of the 200 interviews.

This was not a memorial to Jeff. This was not meant to be a “best of” showing him answering a set of specific/open-ended questions about his work in Infiltration; this was a collection of questions for a documentary about Bulletin Board Systems and stuff that got in outside of that subject were a bonus.

This is, looking at it another way, about 2 and a half hours of Jeff recorded, talking, laughing, interacting with his girlfriend (later his wife), and being himself, which has a different set of value to the people watching it.

By: Mulf Hardaway

Mulf Hardaway — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:45:27 +0000

I’m sure this Milky was a great guy. But I tried listening to the interview, and lasted only about five minutes. It was painful to listen to. This interview is a good case study of how NOT to conduct interviews, asking specific short-answer questions, as opposed to open ended ones, and digging into irrelevant technical details like “what brand of modem were you using.” It seems there is a bit of the interviewer trying to impress the audience with his self-inflated sense of his knowledge of old modem hardware. Not sure how much of that stuff I culd stand.

You should consider culling some choice excerpts from the interview (and no, your interview questions are not what I have in mind as “choice” excerpts), so it isn’t entirely wasted.

By: Boing Boing

Boing Boing — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 03:26:03 +0000

New urban exploration book

Jim Munroe says: “The editor of the zine Infiltration (the zine about going places you’re not supposed to go) and the guy who coined the term “urban exploration” has self-published a how-to book being launched next week. Like his zine, it’s a very wel…