Jason Scott's Weblog
I have a lot of letters in my mailbox like this: Dear Jason, I cannot really put into words how amazed I am by the work you did on the documentary. Never in my entire life have I ever been so blown away. The music. The interviews. The information. Was all perfect. I watched every […]
I didn’t write this; it was submitted to me to go into the Historical Essay portion of textfiles.com. But I like it so much, at his attempt to not just recount his past but understand exactly what was so special about it, that I’m putting it here, too. This document attempts to answer a fundamental […]
It’s always a weird line you cross when you do this kind of stuff, but I thought about it and I added a donation page for the BBS documentary. Specifically, this is for the well-past-a-thousand(!) people who have downloaded episodes off of torrent sites. You really have three choices when dealing with torrent sites: accept […]
Well, finally someone turned the Documentary into a “ware”. I was getting a bunch of hits from a site with a forum, and after going on it and registering, I found that it was a torrent/tracker site with a forum for posting new torrents for download. As per my luck, one of the members of […]
I knew when the documentary hit the streets, I’d have to hit the ground running. I didn’t realize the running would then continue and I’d never be able to stop any time soon. It’s now been a couple weeks of release, and I am over here going in a thousand different directions, handling many related […]
The manifest/tracking information had indicated that my “appointment” to meet my freight was at 6pm on Monday. Imagine my surprise (and my choice of clothing) when in fact it was 10am. The FedEx guy came to my front door and behind him, a semi was blocking the road outside my house: It seemed to make […]
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 13:31:02 -0400 From: XXXXXXXXXXXXX To: sales@bbsdocumentary.com Subject: BBS documentary Good Afternoon, I am the Media Resource Specialist with the XXXXXX District School Board in XXXXXX. I am interested in obtaining a copy of the BBS documentary for our media centre, but must first know if the DVD comes with Public […]
So I got the tracking information for the remainder/balance of DVD boxes of the BBS Documentary, which arrive Monday. Pieces: 211 Weight: 2375.0 lbs. Yes, that’s right, 2,375 pounds of BBS Documentary. In my driveway. I’ll get a picture of that.
I’ve been hemming and hawing about doing this entry, going over how to approach it in my mind, starting and restarting what statements to put in it, what comments to make, and so on. I get like this about some entries and this one is a pretty important one, so realize what went into it. […]
Here we are, wading into the deep waters of the selling phase of the documentary, and I’m doing my best to put the same work into this part as I did in making it in the first place. Hundreds of DVD boxes have gone out; I’d put pictures up but they’d look about the same […]