Jason Scott's Weblog
As someone who is bathed in Bulletin Board System (BBS) history nearly every waking hour, I can sometimes feel like I’m the only one going completely out of his way to find narratives. It’s easy enough to copy together a bunch of floppy disks or scan a bunch of printouts but that’s not really the […]
I loved the little theatre. I don’t quite know when I first heard about it, but likely the name rattled around in my reading the free newspapers while I was in college. That’s how it often works: you see something playing there in an article next to the stuff about politics and bands, and then […]
Seems I can’t go too long before adding ANOTHER sub-site to textfiles.com. But this was was a logical conclusion and has been on the back-burner for about 5 years (according to the file modification dates I have around). http://artifacts.textfiles.com ARTIFACTS covers a problem I’ve had for years and years. People send me collections of files […]
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:16:29 -0400 From: “Giesen, Brian” Reply-To: “Bell, John” To: ascii@textfiles.com Subject: Cocktails, Conversation & the Future of Blogging – RSVP Today! Jason, I was reading your blog and thought you might be interested in attending a free event in Boston we are co-hosting with Six Apart next week. The event […]
Yes, it’s time once again for “So what file from the textfiles.com collection of sites is getting downloaded the most?” And apparently, the winner is this little charmer: He’s extremely popular among the Myspace crowd, and if you think I’m going to link to Myspace, I’d rather eat a jar of thumbtacks. I consider all […]
One of my friends, knowing how much I’ve grown to dig the video weblogger Ze Frank and his show, sent me a link (which is now getting quite popular) of an absolutely spectacular presentation he gave at an ideas conference called TED a little ways back, before he started doing an every-weekday weblog. And I […]
I’m bothered by the battle over the word “Hacker”. I’m most bothered by it because I consider the battle over. While I don’t mind the energy poured into it, since it generates content and I like content, I do mind the characterization that it’s a relatively new battle, one that is just on a sort […]
I have a Google alert set up to tell me when media discusses Bulletin Board Systems. What can I say, I like to be on the cutting edge. People often cite BBSes in two main areas: discussing China, and as a reference of how we don’t do things that way anymore. One of the articles […]
My friend Charlie officially announced he was sick of me showing people cool new stuff I’d downloaded at my editing station in my office. It’s a nice editing station, a nice office and (often enough) really cool stuff, but any more than two people and you just can’t see the screens. “Get this stuff on […]
Well, I’m sure all the parties involved were quaking in their boots to find out which side Bovine Ignition Systems was going to come down on, but after spending some time on the issue, I’m going to cautiously throw my support behind HD DVD as the likely format my next two movies will be produced […]