[Purple-Blurb] Jason Scott of textfiles.com, Monday, 6pm, 14N-233

[Nick Montfort]

Purple Blurbers,

We're nearing the end of the semester, and on Monday we'll have the last 
Purple Blurb event for Fall 2008.

Jason Scott, creator of a sprawling video documentary about computer 
bulletin board systems, and who is now in post-production with Get Lamp 
(the interactive fiction documentary), will talk about digital media and 
writing from his unique and incisive perspective. Jason was co-founder of 
the demoparty(*) Blockparty, is a regular speaker at the hacker conference 
DEF CON, blogs profusely at ASCII <http://ascii.textfiles.com/>, and runs 
the largest archive of the text files that circulated on BBSs: 
textfiles.org.

I hope you'll be able to join us Monday at 6pm in the Trope Tank, 14N-233.

  -Nick

(*) The demoscene is a bit much to explain in the middle of a sentence, 
but it involves creating music videos that are driven by code and run in 
real time. Parties are where these programs are created and shown.

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-   Nick Montfort         nickm at nickm.com   http://nickm.com
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-   Assistant Professor of Digital Media
  -  Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
-   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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-   Cambridge, MA 02139-4307