Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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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  1. Number 1: The Ingestion Wonderment Episode

    The Ingestion Wonderment Episode: Sitting At The Incoming Pile, PDF and CBZ, Text and Sound, Newsletters, Layouts, Projecting The Excitement, Not Just Money, The World The Newsletters Were Made In, Love Across Decades, The Bravest Position.Just a moment to appreciate the thousands of truly off the rails and amazing PDF files that are coming in to the Archive these days, hundreds of user newsletters and mailed brochures, easy to read and fun to find. We can always have nice things, if we stop to notice them.

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  2. Number 2: 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.

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  3. Number 3: 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.

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  4. Number 4: 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.

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  5. Number 5: 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!

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