Jason Scott's Weblog
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 […]
Hey, so my cat was in People Magazine this week. I am not sure I have anything too helpful to add to that.
Stuff happens for a reason; that’s what I was again reminded of after a 40 minute conversation with Gary Troy, director of Computer Beach Party. When we last left this story, I’d seen a terrible film at the Found Footage Festival. Since I’m the Computer History Guy, I wanted to get the story behind it. In […]
I like to think that when people funded my sabbatical, this was the sort of thing they wanted. During ROFLcon, there was a showing at the local movie theater of a rather rare, rather bizarre little computer film. I’d have thought I’d seen most films with computers in them. Or, at least, heard of them. […]
It’s my own unfair bias, but my preferential talks for ROFLcon center around history. Usually, it’s me up on stage with those guys. Sometimes, though, it’s not, and in one other case during the event, there was a pretty amazing panel that took place that I wanted to highlight. There were plenty of other great […]
When the organizers of ROFLcon decided to go another round with a multi-day presentation of internet-related memes, celebrities and issues, I had an opportunity to assemble a panel on a subject I thought worth covering. I chose USENET. Months later, my panel plans came to fruition, and I think came out pretty well. Naturally, when […]
From the mailbox: Hello Jason, In about a month and a half, I’ll be undertaking a video interview series of ultramarathon runners. Unfortunately, I have zero experience with both interviewing and video production. My frame of reference for beginning is your BBS Documentary. I imagine I’ll essentially film interviews in the same manner that you […]
For whatever reason, no North American Demoparty has ever survived past 3 years. That changed last week, as Blockparty hit #4. Four years of Blockparty! Who would have thought! Well, anyone who heard me promise at the first one that we’d have five. I do have to say, however, that things really were looking dim […]