Jason Scott's Weblog
I’ve been coy enough for too long. The next documentary I am working on is about Text Adventures, or Interactive Fiction. It is called “Get Lamp”. It has a introductory website (GETLAMP.COM) and I’ve been noodling with it for about 3 years. I got serious about it in June and have been spending significant time […]
I think when I first starting doing this weblog after my BoingBoing stint, I was going to focus my efforts on doing just massive essays on aspects of digital history… basically having a kind of boiler where I would throw out stuff that didn’t have any other place to discuss it. A lab, if you […]
It may not be known by many, but Richard Garriott/Lord British, creator of the Ultima series of role-playing games, has also been a fundamental part of an organization called Space Adventures. This organization was what interacted with the Russian space agencies to make Space Tourism a reality, where private citizens could experience the incredible wonder […]
I have forgotten how I initially heard about this documentary, but Greg Maletic has been working for a number of years on a film about the last gasp of Williams Pinball, the Pinball 2000 system. His film The Future of Pinball is very nearly finished. He was kind enough to send me a DVD of […]
Shortly, I’ll go into a little bit of detail about the next documentary I’m doing. But I figured I’d mention what I’m not doing, first. The BBS Documentary was a mission and a crusade: capture a history that was so important (to me and others) and do it before the people involved were gone. Mission […]
The purchase of my friend waxy by Yahoo for his website he worked on with others called upcoming.org makes me again contemplate the whole money thing. Always an interesting thing to do, although potentially depressing. As you might guess or have heard, textfiles.com loses money. Absolutely sprays it out the door. Initially because it was […]
As Edonkey Ends (To the tune of “Wake Me Up When September Ends”, Green Day) Read the news just this morn Lost a link to warez and porn Wake me up, as Edonkey ends Harkens back to years gone by Peer to Peer companies die Wake me up, as Edonkey ends Here comes the cries […]
To: jason@textfiles.com Subject: this is a bit bizzare how to start well i guess ill just post =-)~ this is from my blog Ok so i had this dream the other night where i walk up to this big building & on it the words TEXTFILES so i go in i walk around for what […]
The research for the documentary took me in many different directions, as I reached out trying to find out any and every possible subject people might be interested in. Cinematic limitations prevented me from throwing everything I learned on the screen, but there was still a lot of neat stuff I pulled up. A lot […]
So, the BBS Documentary went from $50 a set to $40. I’ve been considering this for a little while. Since I’ve never really done all this before, I don’t really know the audience and the choices people make to purchase or not purchase. The economic term is “Price Elasticity of demand” (my dad taught me […]