Jason Kottke

Jason Kottke is an American Blogger with a degree in physics from Coe College and was awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award” as a Blogger in 2003.

Kottke, a pioneering Blogger, began his Blog in March, 1998. On February 22, 2005, Kottke announced that he had left his job in web design to work on kottke.org full-time within a “micropatronage” model (subscription blogging). Exactly one year later, Kottke announced that only 1450 micro-patrons had contributed $39,900 and that he would not attempt a second year. As of May 2006, the Blog was and is supported by paid advertisements. He is married to Meg Hourihan who cofounded Pyra Labs with Evan Williams, the company that launched “Blogger” later sold to Google.
His latest post, “Secret Restaurant Menus” was posted on March 10, 2010. He holds an Alexa rating of 19,137 as of March 10, 2010 which is an 11% improvement over the previous month.

While digging into the achives for this story I couldn’t help but notice the footer of kottke.org which shows a measure of personality and reads: “You’re visiting kottke.org. All content by Jason Kottke (contact me) unless otherwise noted, with some restrictions on its use. Good luck will come to those who dig around in the archives. If you’ve reached this point by accident, I suggest panic. In memory of DFW, rest in peace. Thanks for everything.”

I couldn’t ignore his footer to his resume’ either (here’s the link): “My mom thinks I’m really great, but more appropriate references are available upon request”.

While finishing up on this post, I thought I would take a look at what Jason was Tweeting about today. Guess that was unusual timing!
“kottke.org is 12 years old today. Land sakes, where’s the time gone?”

If you’d like to know what is hidden below, highlight the redacted text below:

And catch this trick, pretty cool huh? This is from one of Jason’s Post. It’s called redacted text. Thanks Jason!!! Ya gotta love those Pro-Blogger tricks!

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