Jason Scott's Weblog
I’ve been a little busy, doing a little travelling for the summer. When I get back home this weekend, I’ll be kicking things into full gear with my work with Archive Team, Archive.org, GDC, and other projects. But let me mention a few things worth going into that I did while globetrotting. The Arcade Manuals […]
Here’s the deal. Like a lot of other people, I incurred some huge debt in the last 5-6 years, which then started to expand under the weight of compound interest, and which I then spent a lot of time on the phone negotiating to minimal interest and reasonable payoffs over time. It has been going […]
Life working as an archivist for The Internet Archive has been going fantabulous, thanks for asking. I start to feel like one of those individuals tweeting or writing about “being in an amazing environment working with great people on world-changing projects”, except in fact I am not working in some primary-color-and-convenient-free-coffee cube farm that is […]
It has been quite a great time at my new position within archive.org, working as I am from a remote location. Forget hitting the ground running – I’m trying to make the ground have no idea what hit it. I already just mentioned the MUD archiving work I’m calling out for, but there’s lots more […]
OK, do NOT wear the same dress as me – this is my big coming out party, after all. Well, more specifically, on June 5th, 2011, the Internet Archive ( my new employers) are having a reception and ceremony and open house around their newest building, the Internet Archive Physical Archive in Richmond, CA. Here […]
Let’s just cut to the excellent, ass-kicking chase. This month, I was offered and accepted a job. The job’s title is “Archivist” and the office is here: That is in fact the main office of the Internet Archive, yes, that Internet Archive, and yes, this has really happened. You’re either indifferent, delighted, or reeling, so […]
OH HI THERE. I’m Jason Scott, and if you’re reading this you probably have me in some sort of RSS or Feed Reader. And, in some cases, you had the feed suddenly blast out a bunch of new entries where the last one was from some time in December. So, it appears some hackery got […]
I’m stacking documentary-related post after doc-related post, mostly to get these all out of my head for a little while. I wanted to address some documentaries I’m not doing, along with examples of them being done, or whether I think they should be done at all. While being interviewed by Off The Hook during the months […]
I think the BBS Documentary surprised a lot of people by being so huge and coming out of nowhere. Just like some of my websites, that was definitely the intention – go from zero to 100mph and a massive collection, so that people who didn’t know they wanted something got it in spades. It has […]
And it’s all I really will be saying about it.