Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It

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...

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:

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...

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: 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.