Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

By Jason Scott

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 ro... more

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Number 1: The Misremembered Mall Episode
The Misremembered Mall Episode: The Hudson Valley Explorer, The Running Commentary, An Amnesiac Tour Guide, The Story of IBM and Dutchess County, Tracts of Land, The Lifespan of a Mall, Dutchess Mall, Service Merchandise, The Atari Bug, Why Save Memories, Wrong Memories, A Single Hope.The fact a TikTok account called The Hudson Valley Explorer went to the dead husk of a remaining portion of the Dutchess Valley Mall and tried to explain it away shouldn't have bothered me, but he was also 5 miles from my childhood home, so let's do this.
August 31, 202613min
Number 2: The Background Noise of Community Episode
The Background Noise of Community Episode: Healing Music, Avoiding the Noise, Learning Audio With Jeremy, Making Works and Creations, Never Alone, Understanding Part of the Tapestry, Appreciating the Noise, Being a Good Neighbor.Unexpected directions abound as I realize my neighbor is playing music loud enough to leak on the recording, and then realizing that being part of a community comes with a little noise. The lack of noise reduction in a couple places is intentional.
August 28, 202611min
Number 3: The Quick Summary of Archiving Episode:
The Quick Summary of Archiving Episode: Getting Through E-Mail, A Phone Call or Nothing, The Role of Digitizing, Some Basic Metrics, The Continuum, The Approach, Metadata's Role, Getting It Wrong, Getting It Right, An Obsidian Obelisk, Space Station, Back to Work.Getting an e-mail that I know of as one of my long-to-take-to-get-back-to e-mails, I switched to making the e-mail into a phone call, and gave a quick phone call about what archiving standards I approach are. It was a helpful exercise, so here we go again with the ideas.
August 24, 202613min
Number 4: The Reel to Reel Episode
The Reel to Reel Episode: Moving to a New Medium, Learning a New Old Medium, The Process More Than the Products, College Education, Razor Blades, Small Collections and Large Collections, Individual Recordings, TC-650, Testing and Refinement, The Harder Decisions, The Time Ahead.I got my hands on a reel to reel recorder (which worked good enough for tests) and I just had to re-learn the whole aspects of reel to reel tape. It's going to be quite a joy to deal with all of them!
August 21, 202613min
Number 5: The Friars Club Annual Meeting Episode
The Friars Club Annual Meeting Episode: Going Through Boxes, Turn Every Page, Listen to Every Tape, Annual Meeting, The Agenda, The Hope, COVID, Losing a Century, The Fast Closure, The Context of this Meeting, The Story Not Yet Told.About a very interesting annual meeting held at the NY Friar's Club, for which a cassette was found and digitized. The tape is here: https://archive.org/details/Annual_Meeting_2019-10-30
August 17, 202612min