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	The Great Failure of Wikipedia - Jason Scott "The Great Failure of Wikipedia": Presentation by Jason Scott at Notacon 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday, April 8, 2006. Covers the universally-editable encyclopedia-like site Wikipedia, architectural and procedural choices by co-founder Jimbo Wales and the often-unintended consequences of these choices and philosophy. Includes short overviews of the Brian Peppers Debacle, the Ashida Kim Controversy, and the fallacy of "Notability" and "Neutral Point of View" as implemented in Wikipedia as it ... Source: Jason Scott Keywords: Wikipedia; Jason Scott; Notacon Downloads: 6,470 Average rating: (10 reviews)
	BBS Documentary: Interview with Pirate BBS Operator - Jason Scott Some of the documentary sessions were done by setting up in a space during conventions and recording short sequences with any attendees who wanted to speak about BBSes. Since these interview sets were unplanned and free-form, they went in really unexpected directions and ranged heavily in both subject manner and style. In one case, the interviewee did not want to be recorded on video, but wanted to be interviewed anyway... Source: BBS: The Documentary Keywords: Documentary Downloads: 2,684 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	BBS Documentary Preview: DEFCON MIX - Jason Scott After three years of production, director Jason Scott showed 16 minutes of footage from his upcoming documentary on Bulletin Board Systems, "BBS: The Documentary". In this audio recording of the talk, Jason describes the steps that led him to this project, the reasoning behind doing it, and some of the more entertaining and informative lessons he learned from it. The footage itself only makes a short appearance in this recording (the opening music and closing music are included), but the questio... Source: Canon XL-1 Recording, Collection of Jason Scott Keywords: Conference Proceedings Downloads: 1,407 Average rating: (0 review)
	Saving Digital History: A Quick and Dirty Guide, by Jason Scott (Hope 2004 Conference) - Jason Scott From the H2K4 Program: "Knowledge doesn't move forward without history and while there have been many steps to capture the stories, lore, and data of different aspects of computer cultures, a lot of the same mistakes are made over and over. In a fast-paced talk, Jason Scott of textfiles.com busts out some ideas, tools, and mindsets towards halting the loss, bringing the stories back, and making something to build upon instead of throw away... Source: Private Collection Keywords: Conference Proceedings Downloads: 1,737 Average rating: (1 review)
	A History of Hacker Conferences (Presentation at Shmoocon 2006) by Jason Scott - Jason Scott "This con sucks. In fact, every con sucks. Every con was better last year, and that con sucked too." While this sort of discussion takes place at hundreds of bars, hotel rooms and meeting spaces every year, it would be a good thing to have a solid body of knowledge about the history of hacker conferences, their roots and pre-roots, and trends they show as both a cultural event and context in the world... Source: Jason Scott Keywords: conference proceedings Downloads: 565 Average rating: (0 review)
	A History of Podcasting - Jason Scott "Your Moment of Audio Zen: A History of Podcasts": Presentation by Jason Scott at Notacon 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, April 7, 2006. A short introduction to a variety of subjects related to the idea of "Podcasts" or "Podcasting", including historical background of pirate radio, shoutcasting, streaming, and creating of shows. Subject matter strays in a variety of directions, including the talent behind creating a show, defining terms and what the future might hold... Source: Notacon 3 Keywords: Podcasting; Notacon; Jason Scott; Textfiles.com Downloads: 2,189 Average rating: (1 review)
	Mythapedia - Jason Scott "Mythapedia": Presentation by Jason Scott at the STM (Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers) Innovations Seminar at Hilton London Kensington, London, England. After a biographical introduction to the speaker's love of information and archiving that led to the textfiles.com website, this speech covers Wikipedia and a number of myths as to its efficiency, dependency and usefulness. Topics include Wikipedia versus Casinos, the role of the Content Defender, and why Speed trumps all else in the ... Keywords: Wikipedia; Jason Scott; Jimbo Wales; Editing Downloads: 1,020 Average rating: (3 reviews)
	Wikipedia, Brick by Brick - Jason Scott "Wikipedia, Brick by Brick" (sometimes referred to as "Brickapedia"): Presentation by Jason Scott at Notacon 4 in Cleveland, Ohio on April 27, 2007. Focuses mostly on the exploitable nature of open collaborative systems on Wikipedia, where the use of several methodologies allow manipulation of articles and policy. Touches briefly on the Essjay Controversy, where a 24 year old user of Wikipedia was able to successfully present himself as a multi-doctorate professor of divinity for multiple years... Keywords: Wikipedia; Jason Scott; Jimbo Wales; Teddy Bear Downloads: 1,010 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Now And Then, Here and There: Editing - Jason Scott Presentation by Jason Scott at Notacon 5 in Cleveland, OH. Now and Then, Here and There: Editing. Starting from the story of hitting a coyote, Jason Scott describes the nature of editing, our growing roles as editors of our own lives and content, and the future directions editing can take. Hints about the process are given, as well as a number of anecdotes related to Jason's own projects. Keywords: editing; documentary; Jason Scott; Notacon Downloads: 684 Average rating: (1 review)
	Jason Scott's Presentation Presentation - Jason Scott During the preview evening of Notacon 6 in Cleveland, Ohio, Jason Scott, a frequent presenter at Notacon and other events, offered to give a presentation on the art of presenting. Subjects covered include motivation, performance, content, common pitfalls, frequent harbingers of narrative/presentation doom, and memories of presentations gone right and wrong. The speech was recorded with a static hi-def recorder, so Jason does walk offscreen or get cut off at various junctions, but his voice remai... Keywords: presentation; jason scott; notacon Downloads: 401 Average rating: (0 review)
	Apple II Pirate Lore by Jason Scott, Presented at Rubicon 5 - Jason Scott Overview of the Apple II Piracy Community of the early to mid 1980's, presented at the 5th Rubi-Con Conference in Detroit Michigan. Subjects covered include the unique aspects of the Apple II microcomputer architecture and culture, the methods of removing copy protection from software packages of the Apple II, and a very large helping of trivia. To illustrate some aspects of the "crack screens" and other Apple II graphics, an Apple II clone and several programs were provided... Source: The TEXTFILES.COM Audio Collection Keywords: Conference Proceedings Downloads: 2,461 Average rating: (0 review)
	BBS Documentary: Interview with Ben Gardiner - Jason Scott Interview with Ben Gardiner, Sysop of the Aids Info BBS in San Francisco, CA. A miscommunication as to the interview being on camera meant that Gardiner (a member of the Screen Actor's Guild) couldn't be filmed. We instead chose to do an audio interview, and conducted it across an hour on the evening of July 28, 2002. Presented here are the results of that interview, edited slightly for content (no relevant passages have been exised or changed)... Source: BBS Documentary Keywords: Documentary Downloads: 247 Average rating: (0 review)
	BBS: The Documentary - Jason Scott Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. By using a modem, anyone else who knew the phone number of these computers could connect to them, leave messages, send and recieve files...... Keywords: bbs; documentary; jason scott; computer history Downloads: 2,668 Average rating: (2 reviews)
	Interview with Delchi, New York City, July 21, 2002 - Jason Scott Interview conducted as part of The BBS Documentary Project. Keywords: interview bbs delchi documentary Downloads: 69
	To My Dearest Friends... - Jason Scott a little something i slapped together in honor of my best friends. ever. i hope you ALL enjoy it! Keywords: friends; neon thief; fun; jason scott Downloads: 1,410
	Tubbyman 2000 - Jason Scott Cove Reber (singer for Saosin) performing with his old band Mormon in the Middle at the 2005 Vista Highschool Battle of the Bands. The rest of Saosin was there too. Fun time. Keywords: Saosin; Cove Downloads: 303 Average rating: (1 review)
	Interview with Lynn Crumbling for BBS: The Documentary - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Lynn Crumbling for BBS: The Documentary. Conducted on February 29, 2004 in York, Pennsylvania. Covered his early experiences with BBSes, his favorite boards, and influential figures in his early computing life that led him to his current career. Also a discussion about his favorite general computer memories. Keywords: bbs; documentary; crumbling Downloads: 751
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Ted Beatie - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Ted Beatie for BBS: The Documentary. Conducted on February 12, 2002 in Cambridge, MA. Discussions cover both the use of early modems, fitting in the dialing in of BBSes into a student's schedule, comparison to the MIT Zephyr and IRC chat systems, and an extended discussion in the experience of Diversi-dials. This interview was conducted in a highly conversational style, with both interviewer and interviewee talking equally at some times... Keywords: bbs,documentary,beatie Downloads: 481 Average rating: (0 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Philip J. Kaplan - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Philip J. Kaplan, "pud" of FUCKEDCOMPANY.COM, for BBS: The Documentary. Conducted on March 2nd, 2002 in New York City, NY. Questions center around running a BBS, pirate groups, modem costs, what makes a web forum or BBS worthwhile to post on, tips for inciting conversation, and speculations on the personality behind running a BBS. Contains profanity. The interview was conducted in a rehearsal space leased by Mr... Keywords: bbs documentary kaplan Downloads: 2,967 Average rating: (1 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: MIlky and Liz (Part 1) - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Milky Puppy and Liz, BBS users, in Toronto, Ontario on May 25, 2002. Subjects covered included early BBS use in Chicago and Toronto, various BBSes run by Milky and their unique themes, the YIP group, BBS Meets, co-sysop and sysop duties, Atari and Macintosh platforms, and points of pride or highlights from BBSes. This interview was conducted towards the beginning of the film cycle, when I had more of a "conversational" style to the interviews, meaning I am a notable percentage of ... Keywords: bbs; documentary; milky Downloads: 1,349
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: MIlky and Liz (Part 2) - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Milky Puppy and Liz, BBS users, in Toronto, Ontario on May 25, 2002. Subjects covered included early BBS use in Chicago and Toronto, various BBSes run by Milky and their unique themes, the YIP group, BBS Meets, co-sysop and sysop duties, Atari and Macintosh platforms, and points of pride or highlights from BBSes. This interview was conducted towards the beginning of the film cycle, when I had more of a "conversational" style to the interviews, meaning I am a notable percentage of ... Keywords: bbs; documentary; milky Downloads: 619
	BBS Documentary Interview: Bruce Fancher - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Bruce Fancher, Dead Lord of Legion of Doom (LOD) and co-founder of the MindVox bulletin board and internet service provider, conducted on October 13, 2002 in New York City. Topics include TAP meetings, connecting to different bulletin boards, busts, the operations and internals of MindVox, hacker ethics and motivation, and opinions and thoughts about the mid 1990s explosion of interest in internet and politics... Keywords: bbs; bruce; fancher; documentary Downloads: 1,290 Average rating: (0 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: John Sheetz - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with John Sheetz for BBS: The Documentary. Conducted on March 22nd, 2003 in New Providence, New Jersey. Discussions center around teletype art and the use of Ham Radio to transfer text-based images. Techniques in creating RTTY art, the process of transferring artwork over Ham Radio, and some occasional copyright issues are all covered. Speculations on the future of the art, as well as what other skills Mr... Keywords: bbs; documentary; sheetz Downloads: 27,806 Average rating: (1 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Ryan Brown - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Ryan Brown (alias Zendo) in Mountain View California, on May 22, 2003. Camera shifts a couple times, trying different angles. Subjects covered include running a BBS at a very young age, getting to know people only online, winning an award for running a BBS, as well as discussions about ANSI art and using various BBS software. Excellent back and forth between interviewer and interviewee. Keywords: bbs; documentary; brown Downloads: 676
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Mark Nasstrom - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Mark Nasstrom for BBS: The Documentary. Conducted on May 24th, 2003 in Seal Rock, Oregon. Discussions include running election results through BBSes, communication issues in sparsely populated areas, and Boardwatch magazine. Keywords: bbs; documentary; nasstrom Downloads: 4,206 Average rating: (1 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview: b0b lee - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with b0b lee, maintainer of the Steel Guitar Forum (http://steelguitarforum.com) and creator of the b0badel BBS software package. Conducted in Cloverdale, California on May 31, 2003. I was woken that morning in a hotel in the middle of Cloverdale with the news of the birth of my cousin's daughter, Rhiannon Marie. Interview subjects include the first time b0b encountered BBSes, real life meetings of BBS users, the unique experience of using BBSes, the b0badel software (and comparison of... Keywords: bbs; documentary; b0b; lee; citadel Downloads: 642 Average rating: (0 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Loren Jones - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Loren Jones, conducted on January 25th, 2004. Subjects covered mostly surrounded the RBBS BBS program, the figures involved, and the project management involved in the RBBS program. Concerns of early PC BBS ownership are discussed as well as the social events and friendships that could occur. Mr. Jones also discusses the process of making "RBBS in a Box", the all-in-one RBBS CD-ROM createdin the early 1990s... Keywords: bbs; documentary; jones Downloads: 879
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Ben Baker, Ken Kaplan, That Old Frog (Ryugen Fisher) Part 1 - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview of Ken Kaplan, Ben Baker, and Ryugen Fisher (That Old Frog)in St. Louis Missouri, January of 2004. Hour 1 (of 3). Discussion of Fidonet politics, internal issues, triumphs of engineering, influence of Fidonet. Covers some parts of the ARC-ZIP battle, as well as why the various interviewees ultimately left the project. Shot in the same living room in which Fidonet's main implementation was created, at Ken Kaplan's house... Keywords: bbs; bbsdocumentary; interview; ryugen; fisher; ben; baker; ken; kaplan; fidonet Downloads: 613 Average rating: (0 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Ben Baker, Ken Kaplan, That Old Frog (Ryugen Fisher) Part 2 - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview of Ken Kaplan, Ben Baker, and Ryugen Fisher (That Old Frog)in St. Louis Missouri, January of 2004. Hour 2. Discussion of Fidonet politics, internal issues, triumphs of engineering, influence of Fidonet. Covers calling old ladies by mistake, IFNA, Fidonet Cons, the troubles involved with running it. Shot in the same living room in which Fidonet's main implementation was created, at Ken Kaplan's house... Keywords: bbs; bbsdocumentary; interview; ryugen; fisher; ben; baker; ken; kaplan; fidonet Downloads: 265 Average rating: (0 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Ben Baker, Ken Kaplan, That Old Frog (Ryugen Fisher) Part 3 - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview of Ken Kaplan, Ben Baker, and Ryugen Fisher (That Old Frog)in St. Louis Missouri, January of 2004. Hour 3. Discussion of Fidonet politics, internal issues, triumphs of engineering, influence of Fidonet. Covers some parts of the ARC-ZIP battle, as well as why the various interviewees ultimately left the project. Shot in the same living room in which Fidonet's main implementation was created, at Ken Kaplan's house... Keywords: bbs; bbsdocumentary; interview; ryugen; fisher; ben; baker; ken; kaplan; fidonet Downloads: 305 Average rating: (0 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview: James Willing - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with James Willing, conducted for BBS: The Documentary. Held on January 28, 2004, in Yates Center, Kansas. Willing ran what is definitely one of the first 10 and likely one of the first 5 dial-up bulletin boards, in 1978: CBBS-NW. A resident of the Pacific Northwest when the BBS was run, Willing moved to Yates Center, Kansas, to run a bowling alley, where the interview was conducted. Subjects covered included finding out about CBBS in Chicago, the drive to create his own BBS, phone phr... Keywords: bbs; documentary; willing Downloads: 435
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Minor Threat - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Minor Threat, conducted in Austin, Texas, on January 30th, 2004. Minor Threat is most known as the creator and co-author of Tone Loc, a "wardialer" program that would connect to thousands of phones looking for carriers, voices, and other surprises in a phone exchange. However, this interview mostly focuses on his memories of both PD (public domain) BBSes and hacking BBSes; a section in the middle focuses on Tone Loc and the challenges associated with the program... Keywords: bbs; documentary; minor threat Downloads: 4,045 Average rating: (1 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Rich Schinnell - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Rich Schinnell, conducted on February 29, 2004 in Rockville, Maryland, for the BBS Documentary. The interview centered around early IBM PC-compatible user groups and hardware of the 1982 period, including the early compaqs, IBMs, and the challenges of software and usage of them. Also discussed philosophy of sharing software, profiting from public domain software, tyrranical sysops, and PC-TALK/RBBS... Keywords: bbs,documentary,schinnell Downloads: 381 Average rating: (0 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: Tracer[ACiD] - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Tracer, artist for the ANSI art group ACiD. Conducted on March 8, 2004, in New York City, New York. Subjects discussed included ANSI art groups, switching groups based on opportunity, power structures of art groups, creating art in both ANSI and RIP graphics, and which artists Tracer found impressive. Post-BBS events are discussed as well. At the beginning of the interview, a heat pipe clanks occasionally during both questions and answers, and then calms down for the remaining por... Keywords: bbs; documentary; tracer Downloads: 2,625 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	BBS Documentary: Ebony Eyes - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Ebony Eyes, ANSI artist from the late 1980s, for the BBS Documentary. Conducted on April 26, 2004. The last interview conducted for the BBS Documentary, a few days after the end of Notacon. Conducted with the assistance of RaD Man of ACiD. Subjects covered included working in the ANSI art form, favorite programs for drawing, WWIVnet and politics involved in it, and perspectives on the later ANSI Art Scene of the 1990s. Keywords: bbs; documentary; ebony eyes; ansi Downloads: 1,622 Average rating: (0 review)
	Random H2K4 Footage - Jason Scott Sadofsky During shooting of the BBS Documentary, I took some exploratory footage of various events and places, seeing if they might be added as bonus footage. This is one of those explorations; about 6 minutes of footage shot of H2K4, the Hackers on Planet Earth conference in New York City in July of 2004. I decided against using the footage but am including it in the collection since it's a good range of footage of the general event... Keywords: hope; hackers; h2k4; 2600; bbs; documentary Downloads: 356 Average rating: (0 review)
	H2K4 - Building Hacker Spaces Excerpts - Jason Scott Sadofsky Collection of footage shot during the "Building Hacker Spaces" presentation at the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) Conference in New York City. Mostly focuses on the personalities present both in the audience and onstage than the content of the speech; meant to provide alternate angles from MP3s and video footage, although not ultimately used. Not used in the BBS Documentary, ultimately. Keywords: Hope; hackers; h2k4; 2600; bbs; documentary Downloads: 623 Average rating: (0 review)
	One Last Time: The Hacking/Phreaking History Primer - Jason Scott Sadofsky Presented at The Last Hope, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, NY. Historian Jason Scott covers a broad range of hacker history subjects, focusing on providing the tools for understanding the context of hacking and computer history. Subjects covered include 1800-era hacker cons, myths in the Hacker "story", names and events likely forgotten, and some of the touchstones of what hackers consider their lore. Keywords: Hacking; phreaking; jason scott Downloads: 373 Average rating: (0 review)
	BBS Documentary Interview Collection: MIlky and Liz (Part 3) - Jason Scott Sadofsky Interview with Milky Puppy and Liz, BBS users, in Toronto, Ontario on May 25, 2002. Subjects covered included early BBS use in Chicago and Toronto, various BBSes run by Milky and their unique themes, the YIP group, BBS Meets, co-sysop and sysop duties, Atari and Macintosh platforms, and points of pride or highlights from BBSes. This interview was conducted towards the beginning of the film cycle, when I had more of a "conversational" style to the interviews, meaning I am a notable percentage of ... Downloads: 526
	Sweeney - Jason Scott and Barrett Gardner what if sweeney todd's "friends" were something other than razors... Keywords: sweeney todd spoof Downloads: 25
	BBS Documentaries - Jason Scott / TEXTFILES.COM The BBS Documentary Video Collection is a varied set of video items collected by Jason Scott, curator of TEXTFILES.COM. These are recordings about and from the era of the domination of ASCII and Dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (roughly the 1970s through the 1990s, with examples far before and after that). Over 250 hours of interviews were conducted for a project called "BBS: The Documentary" (website at bbsdocumentary.com)... Downloads: 46 Average rating: (0 review)
	Jason Scott and RaD Man (ACiD) - 100 Years of the Computer Art Scene - Jason Scott and RaD Man (ACiD) Since the first time that machines could calculate, people have twisted, modified, hacked and played with them to create art. In a fast-paced hour, we're going to do our best to capture 100 years of computer art, the magic of the art scene, the demo scene, and a dozen other "scenes" that have been with us as long as computers have. Prepare yourself for a roller coaster of visual and audio history as your two over-the top scene pilots take you on "the story so far" to the artscene. Source: digital audio Keywords: Conference Proceedings Downloads: 1,236 Average rating: (1 review)