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Jason Kottke is a pioneer of the blogging movement and former web designer currently living in New York City. He began his blog - http://www.kottke.org - in March of 1998.

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, The Bond Market Association, and the University of Minnesota.

In 1999, he designed the Silkscreen typeface — since adopted by Adobe, 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 SXSW Interactive since 2000 and has spoken at the SXSW Interactive conference as well as the Seybold and Netmedia Conferences.

On February 22, 2005, Kottke announced he had left his web design job in order to work on kottke.org full-time.