It's not worth mentioning in the main article, but I was amused upon searching over the Attendees list for Foo Camp, I found that three of them -- Dan Kaminsky, Dave McClure, Tim Pozar -- have been interviewed for my documentary. Amazing what happens when you cast your net as wide as I did.

hey jason,

just wanted to let you know that i've really
been enjoying your posts, and i look forward
to each new one popping up. if your documentary
is half as entertaining and packed with the
knowledge that you put into your posts you'll
be ok.

on a side note, we met briefly at hope2000 (i
think my brother and i were watching a black
lotus demo at the time when you walked by) and
i remember being like "wow, the textfiles.com
guy" ... i wish you would have made it to
pilgrimage this year as well, since we would
have had another chance to meet, and pilgrimage
was really a great time. heres hoping that the
north american demoscene starts to come alive ...

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And you say this while I've been listening today to your .NSF files (Axel F, excellent Depeche Mode redone in Nintendo sounds, live performance at Pilgrimage). I think you fall under the definition of "Rising Star"; keep going that way. Let me know if you play in New England. (Maybe you should play at a BBS Documentary release party.)

The myth of the UnSocial computer geek went through a shift in percpetion in the 90's. Speaking just from the Mindvox gatherings (wildings?) the media had little chance but to change thier usual skews of geeks as spasticaly shy wallflowers. Aside from getting ink for just showing up at a Gibson reading in the New Yorker and taking up a chapter or two in faux tourist tracts like JC Hertz's book Voxers also made themselves known at gatheringse like the first HOPE shinding. When you needed to take pictures that required black bars to be put over the faces just aim your camera at the Voxxers as can be seen in the Platt book that makes mention of the event.

As you point out there are always going to be sectors of any "grouping" that skews the curve from the idiotic media whore end and the shirking violet end. Inbetween though the folks you meet are... well in a life time of being in and around them it has been at times fascinating, often educational and always something interesting.

How does that old curse go...may you live in interesting time? Well that sums up the slice of years we are in.

Something's gone wrong with the posting mechanism. My newest post is not showing up when I publish. It IS showing up on the archive page, however, so it's not on my side. (At least, I don't think so).

If you want, you can read the posting here until it's fixed.

My time with boingboing grows short; I'd like to get out one more column after this before disappearing into the darkness.