Jason Scott, creator of textfiles.com, BBS: The Documentary, and the online Twitter personality Sockington the cat, delivers this keynote speech at KansasFest 2009.
Recorded on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, by Sean Fahey.
Jason Scott’s keynote speech
Tagged with jason scott sockinton the cat twitter kansasfest 2009 kansasfest2009
Also huffduffed as…
Possibly related…
-
Episode 09 – Jason Scott | iNetizen.org | Hacker’s Podcast - By Hackers and for Hackers
On tonight’s show, Dickturnip doesn’t get spit on by a Llama, Peann takes a photo of Jupiter and we talk to technology historian and documentary creator, Jason Scott.
-
The Save Button Ruined Everything: Backing Up Our Digital Heritage
Jason Scott is a man on a mission — save all the things.
But what does “save” mean in the modern world, in the waterfall of personal and private data, and where do we even begin? Turning on the history-o-matic, Jason provides a backdrop to our attempts to “save”, what has been done, and what we can do. The talk will be fast-paced and loud, like a hard drive at the end of its life.
http://2012.dconstruct.org/conference/scott/
Jason Scott is a force of nature, tirelessly dedicated to preserving our digital history, from old-school game manuals to the latest social networking sites hell-bent on sucking our collective culture into “the cloud.”
He is also a documentary film maker. He made BBS: The Documentary and Get Lamp, all about text adventure games.
In the run-up to the destruction of Geocities, Jason set up Archive Team, a collective of volunteers who back up first and ask questions later. He now works for the Internet Archive, though he is at pains to point out that he does not speak for them.
And yet, despite all his achievements, Jason will probably never be as well-known as his cat Sockington, who has over a million followers on Twitter.
-
The Spendiferous Story of Archive Team – Jason Scott
PDA2011 conference presentation
Tagged with archiveteam jason+scott