Jason Kottke (born September 27, 1973) is a well known US weblog and former web designer currently living in New York City. He designed the popular Silkscreen (typeface) typeface which has become widely used in web design and has won a Lifetime Achievement Award as a blogger.

=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 and the University of Minnesota.

In 1999, he designed the Silkscreen typefont -- since adopted by Adobe Systems, 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 South by Southwest Festival since 2000 and has spoken at the SXSW Interactive conference as well as the Seybold and Netmedia Conferences.

=Blogging career=

Kottke, a pioneering blogger, began his blog in March 1998. As of 2005, his blog is one of the highest-ranked personal sites on the [http://www.myelin.co.nz/ecosystem/ Blogging Ecosystem].

In 2000, Jason Kottke and his girlfriend Meg Hourihan were profiled in a The New Yorker article, You ve Got Blog , which introduced blogging to a wider audience. The minimalist web design of kottke.org is considered influential, and Kottke was one of the first bloggers to create a sideblog called Remaindered Links , which are interesting web links with no commentary. His contributions to blogging were acknowledged when he won a Bloggie Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

His blogging also got him in [http://www.kottke.org/04/12/sony-ken-jennings-and-me trouble] with .

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. This made him the first person to professionally pursue his weblog without relying on advertising or corporate sponsorship. By the close of business on the day of the announcement, over 200 people were listed as micropatrons on kottke.org. As of May 31st, 2005, the total number of micropatrons stood at 705.

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