An OG Blogger Who Is Still at It
Jason Kottke began blogging in 1998. In 2005 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award (LOL). In 2024, he's still at it and still getting new subscribers. Although he is a designer by profession, he's made his living through subscriptions to his blog, ad and affiliate income since 2005. A Vermont, resident, Kottke has a world-wide audince, may of them who have followed him for many years.
In a recent discussion among the members of his website at kottke.org he wrote the following introduction, while asking his readers to also introduce themselves.
I'll go first: My name is Jason and I live in VT with my two kids. I'm struggling with the increasing darkness & cold of stick season here in VT and some early-onset empty nesting, but I'm trying to combat it by biking as much as I can before the snow flies. My son and I are watching Devs (a rewatch for me) and I'm listening to Percival Everett's James on audiobook, which is incredible so far. I can be found on Instagram, Threads, and Mastodon, but I'm enjoying Bluesky the most these days.
Kottke's blog is a mix of original writing and his comments on news and feature articles. On the blog's 25th anniversary, Om Malik, noted Silicon Valley write commented:
Kottke, the blog that curates the best of the whimsical and creative web and reflects the eclectic personality of its founder, Jason Kottke, is turning 25.
he never tried to ramp his site up to become a media empire. No venture capitalist money, no clickbait headlines, no pivot to video or other trendy media chimera
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