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Historian and loudmouth Jason Scott shares stories of technology, retrocomputing, documentary filmmaking, and general schennanigans from his decades of travels and research. From experiences on the road while shooting documentaries to often-obscure points of order, Jason keeps a fast-moving pace and even he doesn't know where we're ending up at the end.
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- Today12 min
The Elvis Restoration Episode
The Elvis Restoration Episode: Paying a Little Extra for IMAX, The Full IMAX, EPIC: Elvis Presley In Concert, Restoration, Elvis As A Performer, Total Control, 50 Years of Cartoon, Finding a New Experience, The Handler of Stories Not Yet Told.A rumination on the new Elvis movie EPIC: Elvis Presley in Concert, which contains many well-restored filmed performances and minutes with Elvis that have mostly never been seen anymore. An inspiration to film and general archivists everywhere. Was glad to see it in IMAX, but also glad to see how good the tools are to bring 60 year old footage back to life.
- Yesterday10 min
The Temperature Episode
The Temperature Episode: A Somewhat Cold Office, The Loss of Environment, The Context Factor, An Overheated Box, an Underheated Room, Keeping Warm, The Compression of Experience, Tracking the Temperatures, A Beam of Sunlight.A meditation on the often forgotten experience of how things we use that are digital live in a context and condition, such as temperature, that we'll never know was the case.
- 2 days ago11 min
The Feed Scanners Episode
The Feed Scanners Episode: A Launch of Scans, 2500 Pages, The Process of Feed Scanning, Digital to Analog to Digital, Pages to Go, The Ease, Paper Clips and Tape, Thanks to Supporters.I hauled out one of the feed scanners and I've done 2,500 pages in one day, and I have thoughts. Considering the frustrations of other mediums, this one is pretty simple: A lot of pages I scan seem to be skewed! Not the paper read, but the print on them. Somehow, however, I'll survive.
- 3 days ago12 min
The Fidonet Consideration Episode
The Fidonet Consideration Episode: Fidonet, A Network, A Dream, Growth, Meaning, Alternate Networks, Burnout, Forever.A meditation on the power of Fidonet and how, even to the best of my abilities, the full story still needs proper telling.
- 4 days ago11 min
The DNA New Year Episode
The DNA New Year Episode: A Tape Playing, VHS Tapes, Dance Not Art, Spencer Coppins, The Events, Recording for Posterity, The VHS Medium, A Bridge to the Past and to Today, Seize the Tape.I was handed a pile of VHS tapes from the 1980s of DNA Lounge, and got to see a lot of people from that time play on my screen while I did my other work in the present day. The collection is from Spencer Coppins, who my research has verified was a Real One.
- 5 days ago14 min
The Interface Faith Episode
The Interface Faith Episode: Appreciating Good Times, Walking the Stacks, The Missing Piece, A Little History Lesson, File Directories, Designers, Redesign, Help Is Not Arriving, A Wonderful API, The Many Types of Users, A Call to the World, A Faith of Interface.Pointing out, while a little under the weather, that the Internet Archive has a one size fits all interface, that doesn't quite fit all, and all the pieces of make different skins and experiences are right there. Go for it!
- 6 days ago14 min
The Crowdsource and Volunteer Episode
The Crowdsource and Volunteer Episode: Experiments in Crowdsourcing, The Internet Archive Deluge, TEXTFILES.COM Alone, Character, The Lessons of Volunteering.As I do more experiments with having crowds of people sort items at the archive, and as I work with individuals from random walks of line in this, I am reminded of the lessons I've learned about volunteer work from the last twenty-five years. In summary: Don't mistreat volunteers, ever. (Plus a few other details.)
- 3 weeks ago13 min
The Mark Pines Auction II Episode
The Mark Pines Auction II Episode: Mark Pines, The Second Surprise Auction, The Life of a Reseller, Bidding from Korea, The Contents of the Second Set, An Unexpected Subset, More Mark to Come.About the previously unknown second set of Mark Pines materials that was bid on, and what it means for the Mark Pines collection. https://archive.org/details/markpines?sort=-publicdate always has the new Mark Pines stuff.
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Historian and loudmouth Jason Scott shares stories of technology, retrocomputing, documentary filmmaking, and general schennanigans from his decades of travels and research. From experiences on the road while shooting documentaries to often-obscure points of order, Jason keeps a fast-moving pace and even he doesn't know where we're ending up at the end.
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