Jason Scott's Weblog
I drove 400 miles to interview Jack Rickard for my documentary, and I’d have done twice that. Jack was the publisher of Boardwatch magazine, for years the bible of bulletin board system sysops and the central watering hole of information and updates of interest to both BBSes and people starting to consider themselves ISPs. I […]
Well, that took quite a bit of time. To recap. Some time last year Steve Meretzky let me go into his basement and scan a selection of items for my documentary. Some time later, I asked if it might be possibly to fully scan some of these notebooks and documents, for posterity. Steve agreed, which […]
We’re nowhere near done with the absorbing of as much of Geocities as we can take, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a little time to show off the kind of stuff that’s being scooped up in great handfuls by the machinery. Among these things are the idea of the “Under Construction” graphic, a […]
Oh, you all better be making plans, kids. The last of the alerts has gone out. Boy, imagine if this was your only direct alert to this. Imagine if they didn’t have your current e-mail, since they wouldn’t have told you of this. Imagine you died, and your family didn’t know your password. Imagine you […]
I got a mail today, and I figured I’d answer it here. The letter’s stripped down to protect the not-asking-to-be-punched-in-the-face. I stumbled across your name via the “F*** the Cloud” article. Then I read your bio / story. As busy as I am today I had a hard time stopping. Compelling work, sir. As for […]
I had a couple trips saved up on the to-do pile, paid for and so on, when I was laid off. So for a while now, I’ve gotten to still enjoy the vestiges of my previous lifestyle laying before an austere future. The last of these paid-for events was this past weekend, attending and speaking […]
The short form of this weblog entry is that I am looking for employment, and would like the job to be one that is happy to hire me. If you are a concern or entity that might consider hiring me, please mail me and I’ll send along my resume to you. Questions or simple non-committal […]
Well now, hasn’t it been a while! It’s now just about October. The powers that be at Yahoo have decreed that October 26th is the last day of Geocities. Let’s assume that it’s really the 20th, or the 15th, because you know how these things go. Have I and others been backing it up as […]
I will be in San Francisco on October 1-4, attending the Monochrom-and-others-sponsored event, Arse Elektronika. If you check the schedule, you will see that I am speaking on October 2nd, at the Center for Sex and Culture, and that my talk will be entitled “Atomic Porn: What is the smallest particle of erotica?”. Make of […]
Your limo is waiting for you at 7:15 in the morning. After a 45 minute drive, the french-canadian limo driver will then take you to the lobby of the TV station, which is near nothing. The lobby will look like this: The historian in you, which nobody cares about today, is pleased that a TV […]