Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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The Exquisite Book Episode Aug 14, 2026

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The Exquisite Book Episode: Getting a Package in the Mail, A Unique Subject, The Art and the Catalog of Memories, Why Do a Documentary, The Short and Long of a Subject, Companies Doing Listings and Images, The Expense and the Obscurity, Architecture and Life, Accuracy and Fact-Checking, The Waiting Moments of a Future Reading.I was moving books around and realized I've really gravitated to books that are beautiful and about subject I lived through in my younger years. Companies like Microzeit Publishing, Boss Fight Books, and Bitmap Books are just a few (and I'm not doing affiliate links) and I just want to encourage people to see what's out there - it's rather surprising what has come out in the last decade.

The 15 Year Anniversary Episode Aug 10, 2026

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The 15 Year Anniversary Episode: 15 Years at the Archive, Loving a Job, The Duties, The Remaining Seven, The Many Different Feelings, Mission, Future, Joy, Sadness, An Unhelpful Letter.A rumination on my decade and a half at the Internet Archive. What a great time it has been, and continues to be.

The Archivebossing Too Close To The Sun Episode Aug 07, 2026

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The Archivebossing Too Close To The Sun Episode: Winning an Auction, Bidding, It's Just $50, OK Maybe It Is Not $50, Passing the Hat, Having Support, What's On The Tin, Re-Learning a Lesson.I won an auction! But at what cost? Sadly, I know exactly what cost.

The Interface Construction Set Episode Aug 03, 2026

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The Interface Construction Set Episode: Pinball Construction Set, Bill Budge's Talents, The Experience of a Construction Set, Interfaces at the Archive, The Variety of Interfaces, An Interface Construction Set, Finding The Gaps, Showing Variety, Nothing Autonomous, Bad Actors, A Parade of Interfaces, Wishing You Well.In which I indicate a fun idea of an Interface Construction Set, a program to let people make and share interfaces and help them get tested out and improved.

The Ode to 25 Boxes Episode Aug 01, 2026

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The Ode to 25 Boxes Episode.A rather odd and unusual poem, dedicated to a particularly large shipment of digitized items leaving the office this week.

The Elvis Restoration Episode Jul 31, 2026

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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.

The Temperature Episode Jul 30, 2026

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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.

The Feed Scanners Episode Jul 29, 2026

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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.

The Fidonet Consideration Episode Jul 28, 2026

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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.

The DNA New Year Episode Jul 27, 2026

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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.

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