Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I’m Going to Write About It
WEBMar 14, 2023 · A little context for just how long that is: kottke.org is older than Google. 25 years is more than half of my life, spanning four decades (the 90s, 00s, 10s, and 20s) and around 40,000 posts — almost cartoonishly long for a medium optimized for impermanence.
Kottke.org Redesigns With 2024 Vibes
WEBMar 1, 2024 · The thing with a tell about yourself for members should have a link in the right rail list. Please have an option to hide both/all side rails and read only the content, the should be possible with CSS and a toggle button, you can even have the toggle button count how much people use it!!
Introducing the New Kottke.org Comments
WEBJason Kottke MOD Oct 16, 2023. *sits down in the rocker, lights a pipe, and sits back with a wistful look, puffing away*. kottke.org used to have comments on posts back in the late 90s (these aren't public on the site anymore...I have a database of them somewhere) and also throughout the 2000s and early 2010s.
A famous lecture given in 1982 by computer science pioneer G...
WEB1 day ago · posted 24h ago by Jason Kottke. A famous lecture given in 1982 by computer science pioneer Grace Hopper, “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People”, has long been publicly unavailable but is now on YouTube. We can now watch Grace Hopper’s famed 1982 lecture on YouTube · …
Every webpage deserves to be a place. Matt Webb’s cursor par...
WEB2 days ago · Matt Webb’s cursor par... Every webpage deserves to be a place. Matt Webb’s cursor party feature lets web visitors see other people’s cursors on his site. And they can chat with each other and share text highlights. “It should be everywhere. It’s how the web should be.”. Posted on Thursday 5 Sep 2024. 1,133 words, 5 links.
About Kottke.org
WEBAbout Kottke.org. Founded in 1998, kottke.org is one of the oldest blogs on the web. It’s written and produced by Jason Kottke and covers the essential people, inventions, performances, and ideas that increase the collective adjacent possible of humanity. Frequent topics of interest among the 26,000+ posts include art, technology, science, visual culture, design, music, cities, food ...
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
WEBIn November 2023, he published an exquisitely designed fine art edition with color photography, limited to 2500 copies (of which ~900 remain), and priced at $100. The mass market version, published by Random House, is an expanded version of the fine art edition retailing for $31 ($15 on Kindle). Craig explains:
Apollo 13: Survival
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Apollo 13: Survival. Apollo 13: Survival is a documentary film that uses original footage and interviews to tell the story of NASA’s Apollo 13 mission, what went wrong, and how the astronauts returned safely to Earth. It’s now playing on Netflix. I enjoyed the footage. If you’re wanting for more detail this is a great series: https ...
The Kottke.org Ask Me Anything
WEBMar 28, 2023 · The Kottke.org Ask Me Anything. Last month, I put out a call for readers to ask me anything — “questions about the sabbatical, media diets, 25 years of blogging, membership stuff, editorial policies, my fiddle leaf fig, Mastodon, parenting, Fortnite, etc.” I meant to start answering these sooner, but I ended up getting so any questions (over 330 of them!) that I decided to go a little ...
Kottke 25: It’s Membership Time!
WEBMar 13, 2023 · Good morning! Tomorrow marks 25 years of blogging here at kottke.org and it’s been more than three months since I returned from my sabbatical, so I thought it would be a good time to: a) Once again express my heartfelt thanks to those of you who have supported the site over the years by purchasing a membership.