Jason Scott's Weblog
Hey there! Haven’t really talked in a while. Been pretty busy. What with? Oh, speeches, presentations, editing and shooting some movies. You know, the usual? How’s that archive.org thing doing for me? Oh, it’s doing fucking awesome, trust me. Best job I have ever had. Great folks, great stuff. What have I been up to there? Oh, […]
Let me explain what’s going on with this entry. Summary: Most of you can ignore it. Perhaps it’s a reflection of how things have gone with online discourse, but I’m mostly posting this as a way of gaining search engine attention to the fact that Sony Vegas, the video editing software, has something called “Media […]
I figured you’re my loyal audience so you should know first – I turned around and realized I was down to the last 130 or so copies of GET LAMP. In other words, get your orders in as soon as you can to guarantee you get a copy of the original box+coin combination. I haven’t […]
Dormant while my attention was focused on a few other matters, the Javascript MESS Project is coming back. And if you are ready, willing, and a coder, we need your help. If you don’t know what the Javascript MESS Project is, I wrote entries here and here about it. Oh, and here and here. I […]
About to start posting here again. Thanks for the patience.
I had really good success when I put out the call for the Archive Team, so let’s try that again, with an entirely new idea. I would like to declare November 2012 the very first Let’s Just Solve the Problem Month. Here’s how it works, and what problem I want to solve. As that sexy […]
So, Archive Team has become very good at downloading sites before they go down. Way good. Some might almost venture too good. Someone trying to make a point, like me. Take, for example, Tabblo, a photo-sharing site that HP stabbed in the neck because it wasn’t getting the same internal love as Snapfish, which HP […]
When you overshoot your documentaries as much as I do, you end up with a lot of perfectly good, probably movie-worthy footage that just doesn’t make it into the final cut. When I edit down the dozens of hours of interviews, I have thousands of clips of people saying on-topic, coherent things, all labelled, and […]
UPDATE: This kickstarter hit $20,000, meaning Joey will be working on this new project for a whole year. I can just imagine the possibilities as it matures and gets done. Over the course of this year I will occasionally push you to kickstarter projects related to things I think are important to Archive Team‘s goals and […]
The best projects cause a lot of people to shrug or go “oh, that’s nice” and then a much smaller percentage of people to drop whatever they’re carrying and stagger forward in disbelief. Here’s one of those. For some people, just bringing up the phrase “The Internet Underground Music Archive”, or “IUMA”, summons memories of […]