Jason Scott's Weblog
I had a call waiting for me on my voicemail, from a Jennifer Pew (her phone number was 206-903-3915) of a law firm called Dorsey and Whitney LLP, who specialize in IP law. She asked me to call her back, in association with an MGM vs. Grokster case. Now, there’s always that interesting swimming feeling […]
With absolutely no fanfare or warning, Western Union ceased its telegram service on January 27, 2006. They notified employees internally in mid-January, and then abruptly closed off the service. The full message for saying goodbye to 155 years of telegraph service was: “Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging […]
35 might not seem like a very old age to some, but in many ways, it’s a good time for me to really decide what projects of mine are going to “happen”, which will not, and what, if any, new projects I should be taking on while I still have the energy and age of […]
None of the following concepts/ideas/paragraphs grew in my mind enough to warrant a decent weblog entry, so I’m grouping them together, like a lost hiking party, clinging to each other for warmth and hoping you’ll read them before the ice weasels come. There were a number of planned ideas at the beginning of BBS: The […]
Philip J. Kaplan, “Pud” of Fuckedcompany.com (and a bunch of other sites) was interviewed for the BBS Documentary in 2002. I’ve now finally put his total interview up, and it’s definitely one of the more entertaining and hilarious ones, all the way through: http://www.archive.org/details/20020302-bbs-kaplan It’s about 43 minutes, and you can tell in the first […]
The best dramatic movie about BBSes was created not in the 1980s, but last year, 2005. And it wasn’t a movie, it was a TV series. And it wasn’t made in the United States – it was made in Japan. It’s called Densha Otoko (Train Man), and in my opinion it is the best dramatization […]
I have a page of webstats for all my sites. I occasionally check it to see if anything’s funky. Since the textfiles.com sites are all hosted in various places, I don’t necessarily notice if something gets hit until the fun is over. Such is the case when I found out that in 6 hours, over […]
Just finished my talk, which I gave to a dozen people. 12! Now, the main reason for this is because I was up against two high-visibility speakers (no seriously). You kind of can’t go to these things and not see Dan Kaminsky talk. Unless, of course, you’re in another room giving a speech. I recorded […]
Back in the beginning of December I offered membership in a little experiment I was trying out, what I called an “Adventurers’ Club”. Basically, the idea was that if someone sent me $100 towards my next documentary (which is likely years away), then they would get a copy of my current documentary, three copies of […]
I am speaking at Shmoocon next week, on Friday, in Washington, DC. The subject of the talk is “A History of Hacker Conferences”. I’m spending 5-10 hours a day working on it right now, and will get it in under the wire for the show. I’ve spoken what probably counts as “frequently”, over a dozen […]