Jason Kottke
Founder, Kottke.org; Fmr. Web Designer
Jason Kottke is a blogger and former web designer. Educated at Coe College, Kottke began his career as a web designer in 1986. He worked on design projects for companies as diverse as Charles Schwab, Target, and the University of Minnesota. He designed the now-ubiquitous typeface Silkscreen in 1999, which has since been adopted by Adobe, MTV and Volvo. He has served on the Advisory Board for SXSW Interactive since 2000. In 2005, he announced he had left his web design job to work on his blog full-time. The site is now supported by paid advertisements. Kottke lives in New York City.
“Are you happy?” is a good place to start, reflects Jason Kottke.
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People are so much more connected than they used to be.
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Kottke is a big Errol Morris fan.
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Politics are still shut off from reality, Kottke says.
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They will, Kottke says, but they’ll just be different.
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Encouraging the dilettantes is one unfortunate side effect of the information age.
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Internet advertising presents many opportunities for trial and error, Kottke says.
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Has social networking changed our social norms?
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Kottke started tinkering with primitive computers when he was still a kid.
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