Harbor Digitizing
Building a Mobile Digitizing Lab
Here in late 2022, as a sort of technomadic swan song, I have embarked on a new adventure in mobile geekery. There will be no pedaling this time, nor is this another floating extravaganza of boat hacking and nautical gizmology. Instead, I’m creating a 48-foot mobile laboratory packed with the tools of my trade… digitizing…
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Harbor Digitizing in Microsiervos
This site in Spain posted a story about my digitizing activities, and quite surprised me with a flurry of web traffic and a few inquiries about home movie archives. According to Google Translate, the title reads, “The veteran technomad who could digitize any audio, video, film or photo format.” Since this is such a good…
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Wizard with a Time Machine
By Kelley Balcomb-Bartok Journal of the San Juan Islands July 19, 2022 Located in an unassuming building in Friday Harbor is a magical place inhabited by a wizard of technology bringing history back to life for clients and friends. Steven K. Roberts is his name, digitizing old films, videos and slides is his game. Harbor…
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Reality 2.0 Interview with Doc Searls
“Digital Archives and Nomads” Ages ago, on the Perl Whirl and Linux Lunacy geek cruises, I had the pleasure of hanging out with the legendary Doc Searls, editor of Linux Journal and co-author of Cluetrain Manifesto along with lots of other things. He also created the FLOSS Weekly podcast, has been a vocal proponent of…
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