Jason Scott's Weblog
If what you want is an hour of me dominating a podcast to talk about myself, then you’re in luck. I’m the most recent interviewee on the Small WORLD podcast. It’s been mostly interviewing musicians lately, but someone was nice enough to suggest to the host that I be interviewed. We conducted it earlier this […]
You might have heard I’m making a documentary about arcades. I’m pretty excited about it, although obviously the work on the text adventure documentary is a little more pressing. That said, I have been doing the occasional bit of work on it: conducting some interviews, gathering some data, getting names, e-mails going out to the […]
Peter Zelchenko shows up to deliver a single line in the totality of the 5.5 hours of BBS Documentary. He didn’t even want to be on camera, actually, but I had him sit down to ask me something and I started peppering him with questions and the next thing he knew, we had a little […]
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:40:07 +1100 From: David Dean To: Jason Scott Subject: article request Do you get many (any?) of these? Anyway, I figure as an obsessive hoarder, you’ve got some great system for storing your old files – notes about projects ideas, half completed code-bits, word files that you might just want […]
Being someone who finished a film, I get a lot of nice e-mails and discussions going with people who are working hard on films and want advice from me. Naturally I do my best to give them whatever I’ve learned along the way on both the previous and current productions, so that I can help […]
It is very important, nay, critical for a weblog writer to not just consider an idea but to coin a nonsense word which makes it sound like they originated the idea, when in fact nobody else might have thought it worthy of calling it a special term. It’s the weekend, so it’s my turn. The […]
Besides being an idea guy, I’m also an impulsive idea guy. Hence, I can now announce: http://www.wozipedia.org This is basically a wiki with a bunch of initial work by me and a few others, with some room for expansion and some rough ideas sketched out. If my previous behavior is any indication, this will progress […]
I’m an idea guy; I like coming up with ideas. Some of them come to fruition and some are in a sort of holding pattern. Maybe I’ll pick them up again, and maybe not. There’s one I’ve been kicking around for well over a couple years. It’s had a number of names, and “Wozipedia” is […]
I made the relatively hard decision not to have Vista in my home. This is tough for me, because I’ve been using Windows computers as my front-end to my stuff for over 10 years, and I have done an awful lot of work on that operating system family. Walking away has the potential to be […]
For reasons that become less clear with each passing day, I have a feed coming from Wired News. I think part of it is a nostalgia regarding how Wired used to be when I first stumbled upon it when I was 24, and the other part is that over time I’ve appeared in it. And […]