Jason Scott's Weblog
Been rather busy for the past year, here and there, with all sorts of appearances, presentations, call-ins and the sort of public speaking I’ve always enjoyed doing. And the movie, obviously. But I just took a little time just now and backfilled a good amount of talks I gave recently into the Presentations Page on […]
Today, I’m 40. I’ve been touring in support of GET LAMP with a tour entitled JET LAMP. In celebration, this weblog will be starting up again for real. But today, I’m turning 40, and I’m doing it online. For just today, September 13th, come visit me online to celebrate my birthday, harass me about projects, […]
After roughly 4 years of work (2006-2010), GET LAMP, a documentary about text adventures, is complete. While I’ve been working on the documentary and its aftermath, this weblog has been dormant. While some use their weblogs as day to day updates and some use them to write small “let’s talk about this” paragraphs, usually with […]
…it’s been a while. Expect that you will be hearing a lot from me, about a lot of things, very shortly. I’ve missed our little chats, and anyone who thinks my hand or heart has been stilled can either rejoice or cower, as necessary. As a peace offering, I invite you to see the rejected/cancelled […]
So part of this is let you know of the PLATO 50th Anniversary Celebration at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. It’s June 2-3rd. If you have the ability to get out there to it and you have the slightest interest in computer history, you will want to go to this. It all […]
Just wanted to mention that the BBS Documentary IMDB Entry now has another 100 names added to it. Man, did I interview a lot of people. Only a few people appear in my film as well as others, so I added a metric ton of entirely new people to their database, and that takes a […]
The Information Cube, the new home of the TEXTFILES.COM Archives and a direct result of the Sabbatical funding I received last year, is coming along nicely. I learned a lot about what crates and storage boxes work and do not work, I can say that – I’ve found which collapse under their own weight, which […]
Just worked a little on one of those “in the attic” projects – adding interviewees to the cast list for the BBS Documentary IMDB Entry. If you’ve never worked with IMDB’s interface for adding or correcting details, it’s very weird to say the least. And if you’re working in the world of Wikis and think […]
People, it’s time. Actually, it was time probably 5 years ago, but better late than never. If you believe Clay Shirky, we can just keep burning energy nearly forever in terms of collaboration energy, but let us not waste too much more than we have, can we? It’s like how bananas used to taste different […]
So, I recently got a slight hair reduction: I mention this for two reasons: A lot of people have only known me in the past 5 years or less, and have never known a time where I didn’t have some level of hair or goatee. I don’t want to be refused entry for the time […]