Jason Scott's Weblog
I made a nice little addition to DIGITIZE.TEXTFILES.COM: The 1980 Coleco Catalog. If you don’t remember getting a Coleco catalog in the mail at some point, don’t be worried. This particular catalog went out specifically to stores or purchasers for chains. It’s directed toward people who buy by the box or the truckload, and so […]
Isn’t that how it always is? I am going to be in London for a week doing interviews for my documentary and also speaking at a convention (about Wikipedia, this time), and I realize the time I’m going exactly matches a real incredible chiptune festival in New York City: BLIPFESTIVAL.ORG This is fly-to-NY-and-rent-a-hotel worthy. Days […]
Simon of Legaltorrents (and a bunch of other cool stuff) asked me if it was OK to put an episode of the BBS Documentary up on his website of cool crap to download. How could I say no, both by license and wish? The thing is licensed so that he could put it up without […]
I got a mail just this week: “So, I have a collection of a few hundred megs of MP3s of voice mailboxes run by hackers in 1990. Do you have any suggestions on who I should give them to or what to do with them?” Why yes, I said. yes I do. Only one or […]
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 […]