Jason Kottke
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Jason Kottke (born September 27, 1973) is an American blogger, graphic designer, and web designer known for his blog Kottke.org.<ref name="about">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He won a Lifetime Achievement Award as a blogger.<ref name=zdnet>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Design work
Kottke attended Coe College on scholarship in Iowa and eventually began a career in design.<ref>Mod, Craig. "Jason Kottke — Twenty Years of kottke.org", On Margins. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.</ref> In 1999, he designed the Silkscreen typeface—since used by Adobe, MTV, and Volvo among others.<ref>Houston, Thomas. "5 Minutes on The Verge: Jason Kottke", The Verge, 25 January 2012. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.</ref> His design work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Forbes, and Brill's Content. Kottke created the iconic Gawker logo in 2002 in what he claims was "whipped up in Photoshop in 30 minutes as a placeholder".<ref>Gobry, Pascal-Emmanuel. "Hate Gawker's New Design? Here's What Its First Design Looked Like", Business Insider, 12 February 2011. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.</ref>
Kottke.org (blog)
Kottke is considered a pioneering blogger and began his blog in March 1998.<ref name="blood">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2000, Kottke and his then-girlfriend were profiled in a New Yorker article, "You've Got Blog", which introduced blogging to a wider audience.<ref name=gotblog>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=megandjason>Template:Cite magazine</ref> His contributions to blogging were acknowledged when he won a Bloggie Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 after five years of blogging. In 2005 Kottke was able to quit his day job to focus on blogging full-time.<ref>Glasner, Joanna. "QUIT YOUR JOB TO BLOG, BLOG, BLOG", Wired, 23 February 2005. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.</ref> Kottke writes that as of 2019, "Probably 60 percent of my revenue is from membership, and the rest is from Amazon and ads."<ref>Owen, Laura Hazard. "Last blog standing, “last guy dancing”: How Jason Kottke is thinking about kottke.org at 20", Nieman Lab, 13 February 2018. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.</ref> His blogging got him in trouble with Sony<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> when he broke the news<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> of the loss that broke Ken Jennings' Jeopardy! win streak.<ref name=newsweek>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Personal life
Kottke was married to Meg Hourihan and they have two children.<ref>Stone, Madeline. "These 2 Bloggers Are Selling Their New York City Townhouse For $5 Million", Business Insider, 3 October 2013. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.</ref> He lives in Vermont.<ref>Woo, Michelle. "I'm Jason Kottke, Creator of Kottke.org, and This Is How I Parent", Lifehacker, 6 August 2018. Retrieved on 14 August 2019.</ref>