Jason Scott's Weblog
In two entries (one and two), I mentioned I was editing the Two Hands Project, which is a documentary on hackerspaces. I also, I hoped, made it clear that there’s a ton of priorities before it, including finishing editing work on the Going Cardboard documentary, and, you know, all this stuff with terabytes of data […]
The Next Documentary is actually three documentaries, and one of those documentaries is six documentaries. Now, you would think with my job at the Internet Archive and all my other projects and endeavors, I wouldn’t be into making another documentary. You especially would not expect me to be making three at the same time. Well, […]
There’s enough going on both behind the scenes and onstage with the Archive Team talk at DEFCON, I think it functions on multiple levels as an explanation of speaking techniques, how I design presentations, and what the approach was for it. You really should have watched the speech before reading this entry – here’s the […]
I posted a new weblog entry over at the Internet Archive weblog, combining two stories. The first is that a Cray hard drive was magnetically recorded and people are invited to download this magnetic image to analyze. Help find the operating system and the software! The second is that a new Hackerspaces book has come […]
I asked for the nicest presentation space at DEFCON, I got a nice rented tux, and I steeled myself up to give my all onstage. And it paid off! May I proudly present my DEFCON 19 talk: Archive Team: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack. Here’s the full talk on YouTube: And here’s the full […]
I don’t know if it’s entirely public knowledge, and obviously it’s not like the concerts hand out programs with the full staff listing or anything, but for the past few years I’ve been the person who edits the videos that play in the background of MC Frontalot’s concerts, specifically the PAX events but usually anywhere […]
Hello Jason, I read your blog now since a long time and you’ve also open for me a new (old) world again and I love your project, which is a kind of your personal life-work (and also for us too). But for me – and maybe for other readers of your blog – is the […]
I have done my first weblog posting on the Internet Archive Weblog: Scanning a Braille Playboy. I could probably count on half of one hand the amount of group weblogs I’ve posted on, and I can count on one finger the amount of time any institution or company I’ve ever worked for has let me […]
As per my usual methodology, I’ll be attending the DEFCON hacking and security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, starting this upcoming Wednesday and going through to Sunday. With a couple exceptions, I’ve been there every year since 1999, so it’s kind of a thing I do. I also happen to love Las Vegas, so going […]
It occurs to me that some people who read my weblog might not know my twitter feed. I’ve been there for years, but it doesn’t come up here all that much. Perhaps not surprisingly, the feed’s name is @textfiles. I’m rangy, weird, abrasive, occasionally helpful and informative. You know, like usual. Check it out.