Jason Scott's Weblog
Sometimes, when you’re an archivist of my stripe, your tools don’t just include computers – sometimes they include something like this: And really, you better have a truck when you drive down to the local post office with your “fuck if we’re going to deliver this” yellow slip and come up against this waiting pile: […]
Well, here we are on October 26th, 2010. Can it really be a year ago that Archive Team had dozens of people assaulting Yahoo’s servers desperately trying to save disappearing history? Well, let’s be frank — not disappearing history, but in fact history being actively and quickly destroyed on purpose. I mean, it’s not like […]
This summer, for DEFCON 18, I gave a talk called “You’re Stealing it Wrong: 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles”. The proposal was good enough that less than a few hours after I submitted it, Dark Tangent himself tweeted about it. That was enough pressure to ensure I had lots of backup material, lots of items […]
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 […]