Jason Kottke
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Jason Kottke (born September 27, 1973) is a well-known American blogger and former web designer currently living in New York City. He designed the popular Silkscreen font which has become widely used in web design and has won a Lifetime Achievement Award as a blogger.
[edit] Web design
After graduating with a degree in Physics from Coe College in 1995, Kottke started work as a web designer in 1996 working on website design projects for 3M, E*Trade, Charles Schwab, Target Corporation, The Bond Market Association, and the University of Minnesota.
In 1999, he designed the Silkscreen typefont — since adopted by Adobe, MTV and Volvo, amongst others. His design work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Forbes, Brill's Content and Graphics International. Kottke has served on the Advisory Board for SXSW Interactive since 2000 and has spoken at the SXSW Interactive conference as well as the Seybold and Netmedia Conferences.
[edit] Blogging career
Kottke's first site was 0sil8, a collection of "digital experiments."
Kottke, a pioneering blogger, began his blog in March 1998.
In 2000, Jason Kottke and his then-girlfriend (now wife) Meg Hourihan were profiled in a New Yorker article, "You've Got Blog", which introduced blogging to a wider audience. His contributions to blogging were acknowledged when he won a Bloggie Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.
His blogging also got him in trouble with Sony when he broke the news of the loss that broke Ken Jennings' Jeopardy! win streak.
On February 22, 2005, Kottke announced he had left his web design job in order to work on kottke.org full-time. He pledged that all content on the site would still be free while encouraging readers to become "micropatrons" by making an optional contribution of any amount. By the close of business on the day of the announcement, over 200 people were listed as micropatrons on kottke.org. Exactly one year later, Kottke announced that over the course of the year about 1,450 micropatrons had contributed $39,900, the vast majority during the three weeks after his initial announcement, and that he would not attempt the feat for a second year. [1]
Kottke is continuing work on kottke.org "full time". As of May 1, 2006, the blog is supported by paid advertisements, as part of the new design oriented advertising network The DECK.
