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This has been going extraordinarily well! And with 41 episodes under the belt, it's a nice piece of work to have spent a year on (it's been a year, folks).

The next episode, 42, will be about direct philosophies of life I've built up regarding the work I do and interacting with others. So a true Life, The Universe, and Everything episode.

After that, though, I wanted to check with you, the backers who have made this show exist in the first place, to find out if there are subjects or areas you wanted me to cover that have not been covered yet. Left alone, of course, I'll keep winging it. 

(For what it's worth, I'm kind of starting to formulate this would be a good podcast to keep to 100 episodes total, and then switch formats, approaches, or just move onto other projects. But we'll see if that number is high or low.)

Drop your suggestions right here!

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Anonymous

I’d like to hear about creating the Get Lamp documentary, what you learned making the BBS documentary that you applied to Get Lamp. interviews you water to get but didn’t, the response vs BBS documentary. Behind the scenes stuff

Ken Gagne

Ditto for hearing more about your documentaries. And crowdfunding. I feel like we haven't heard enough about what motivated you to do them (including the ones still in production) and what you learned along the way that you applied to future projects.

Anonymous

I'd like to hear you conduct some interviews, maybe of with some fellow historians or archivists.

Anonymous

If you haven't already done so somewhere, I'd really like to learn more about the interview process--setting up interviews, communicating beforehand, organizing the process, etc. I really enjoyed the episode where you talked about some of the best, worst, and just memorable interviews during the BBS and Get Lamp documentaries.

Anonymous

More Commodore 64, obviously!

Anonymous

We all live in these little communities around each platform. It would be great to get the view from 10,000ft that you have. What different groups are doing right, what we could be doing better, what would make your job easier? I'll also join in the calls for more background on your documentaries. They're clearly the product of a lot of hard work and legitimized classic computer and gaming documentary films and now everybody thinks they can make one. What's the key to a good one? Any good travel stories? What would you leave in a "director's cut"?

Anonymous

Also, and this is totally just me, I loved the Psygnosis episode because it took place in my own back yard. I love stories of Boston's technological past and I think you, me, and Ken Gagne should collaborate on something related to it some day.

Ern Darnpath

I’m trying to think of a literal interpretation of the title. You likely face conflicts when trying to archive and host material that has a copyright stamped on it. What if you could interview someone who can discuss the complexities of those conflicts? There’d be no illusion of winning the other person over, just that you’ve got experience talking your way out of that conflict, and it’d be interesting to hear how that goes. Hoping for the other person to bring up good points we as enthusiasts hadn’t even thought of.

Anonymous

You've had a good instinct so far in selecting topics and stories. I like the range you've covered, from personal narrative to travelogue tales. The episode about Wynn Wagner III stands out for me, combining behind the scenes info with a touching portrait of a truly special person. One topic you seem uniquely capable of tackling is highlighting the people who do the boring but essential work of scanning and posting things on the Archive. Could be the subject of a new podcast: "Behind the TIFFs."

Anonymous

This is a bit of an unformed grab-bag of ideas/thoughts I've had over the series, so here goes: I really enjoyed some of the deep dive stuff about Apple ii preservation, and I knew nothing about it prior. Could you do similar things for other platforms? C64 was fun. What about Amiga? Is there anything interesting (compared to other communities) about the amiga demo scene or public domain communities or mag scans etc.? Some kind of (not entirely hypothetical) how-to questions you could attempt to answer. I have a loft full of amiga floppies. What should I do with them?

Anonymous

Oh, \n ends the comment, rather than starting a new paragraph. Sorry. Paragraph 2: Questions for the aspiring anarcho-archivist. How to get involved? What are priority things at the moment? How would one go about preserving say, collections of old live music recordings, or piles of old pulp SF magazines: and stuff like, the intersection between ideal and pragmatic (ideal being: scan at this DPI, non-lossy; pragmatic being: something is better than nothing. or is it?) What about, for little communities/volunteer projects with historic elements (historic computing groups at a university, say), what's good for cataloguing stuff? Is it worth a talk about IA.BAK?

Anonymous

Sorry, last post for a minute. Expanding on the amiga thing, and thinking about the coverage you gave the WOZ project. Assuming you have any clue about these things, but: so what's the deal with the kryoflux, and that proprietary disc image format, and those softpres guys that seem to hoard the flux rips? What's their karma? How about alternatives, what ever happened to the ARMIGA? or just build a controller - I saw someone who built a DIY arduino floppy controller from scratch as a hobby .Or get an existing amiga to read its own discs and network it, maybe that's more pragmatic, or one of those CF/USB hacks? If it's not already clear I know nothing about the seemingly clandestine workings of this little sub culture.

Christopher

What I love about this podcast is twofold: 1) Getting to hear the anecdotes and stories from your incredibly rich life and history and 2) How 1) plays into your work with the Internet Archive. IMO IA is a truly unique project and a major achievement unto itself, so hearing more about what's going on there and what future directions you think it might take would be fascinating!

Anonymous

Congrats on a great year of podcasts! I have really enjoyed them. I would personally like to hear more about the Apple ][ Prince of Persia source code recovery project...but I am biased since I had so much fun playing around with that source code after you guys put it up on GitHub!

Ewen McNeill

I’ve been enjoying the anecdotes of 80s/90s tech history, 90s and early 2000s online history, etc. Happy to hear more about that sort of topic. Tech preservation is also clearly a broad interesting topic too. As someone else said I’d be interested in hearing about your film degree, and why you’ve drifted away from making films (time priorities, sure, it how did film go from College study choice to low priority over 20 years?). Ewen

Ewen McNeill

Also while we’re checking in: it feels like it’s turned into a monthly podcast these last few months. Which is fine. But maybe it’s worth considering calling it a “once a month” podcast formally, rather than what seems from the outside to have turned into “gotta get at least two episodes out before midnight on the last day of the month”. I for one would be totally happy with one (less rushed) podcast a month. For the same support (I set my “items per month” on Patreon to 1 quite a while ago anyway, with a higher per item level, as a workaround for Patreon’s term changes). Maybe one per month would work better for everyone now the bulk debt backlog is cleared? Just a thought. Ewen

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Just jumping in to say the release schedule will improve now that a number of life scheduling issues have cleared up.