Jason Scott's Weblog
The stack of huge boxes on my door containing this material heralded an important milestone in my life: my first assignment as a professional historian/archivist. From the official announcement: To celebrate ‘GDC 25’, the conference organizers have appointed an official historian for the show in the form of noted technology archivist Jason Scott, known for […]
This summer, for DEFCON 18, I gave a talk called “You’re Stealing it Wrong: 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles”. The proposal was good enough that less than a few hours after I submitted it, Dark Tangent himself tweeted about it. That was enough pressure to ensure I had lots of backup material, lots of items […]
Been rather busy for the past year, here and there, with all sorts of appearances, presentations, call-ins and the sort of public speaking I’ve always enjoyed doing. And the movie, obviously. But I just took a little time just now and backfilled a good amount of talks I gave recently into the Presentations Page on […]
Today, I’m 40. I’ve been touring in support of GET LAMP with a tour entitled JET LAMP. In celebration, this weblog will be starting up again for real. But today, I’m turning 40, and I’m doing it online. For just today, September 13th, come visit me online to celebrate my birthday, harass me about projects, […]
After roughly 4 years of work (2006-2010), GET LAMP, a documentary about text adventures, is complete. While I’ve been working on the documentary and its aftermath, this weblog has been dormant. While some use their weblogs as day to day updates and some use them to write small “let’s talk about this” paragraphs, usually with […]
…it’s been a while. Expect that you will be hearing a lot from me, about a lot of things, very shortly. I’ve missed our little chats, and anyone who thinks my hand or heart has been stilled can either rejoice or cower, as necessary. As a peace offering, I invite you to see the rejected/cancelled […]
The Information Cube, the new home of the TEXTFILES.COM Archives and a direct result of the Sabbatical funding I received last year, is coming along nicely. I learned a lot about what crates and storage boxes work and do not work, I can say that – I’ve found which collapse under their own weight, which […]
People, it’s time. Actually, it was time probably 5 years ago, but better late than never. If you believe Clay Shirky, we can just keep burning energy nearly forever in terms of collaboration energy, but let us not waste too much more than we have, can we? It’s like how bananas used to taste different […]
So, I recently got a slight hair reduction: I mention this for two reasons: A lot of people have only known me in the past 5 years or less, and have never known a time where I didn’t have some level of hair or goatee. I don’t want to be refused entry for the time […]
Hey, so my cat was in People Magazine this week. I am not sure I have anything too helpful to add to that.