Jason Kottke

Jason Kottke’s live rebroadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing has become one of my favorite annual Internet traditions, since 2009. The central conceit is “you can watch the original CBS News coverage of Walter Cronkite reporting on the Moon landing and the first Moon walk, synced to the present-day time” to get a sense [...]

Minding the History Gap

by James Furbush on January 26, 2012

The Verge sat down with blogger and Stellar.io creator Jason Kottke. Most people linking to the interview are pulling the quote about how Kottke’s able to do in 2-3 hours of blogging what it used to take him 6-8 hours. Here’s the part that fascinates me: What’s your primary browser? Firefox, I guess. I keep [...]

Stellar Invites

by James Furbush on August 21, 2011

Pst, I’ve got more invites two one invites to Jason Kottke’s Stellar if anyone is interested in trying it out. Sorry. I’ve quite enjoyed it to this point. Basically, Stellar aggregates all the things you like or favorite around the web, specifically on Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo and Flickr. It’s a simple site that allows for a very [...]

Kottke Launches Stellar

by James Furbush on March 10, 2011

Jason Kottke has just launched a new endeavor, Stellar, which “helps you discover and keep track of your favorite things online.” The site is gently rolling out to new users and it looks like a who’s who of content curators and internet movers and shakers have been trying it out in beta for him for [...]

In light of the much maligned Gawker Media design that was rolled out to all their blogs last week, Jason Kottke, who helped design the first iteration of the site, looks back at some old designs. The first design Kottke sent to Nick Denton didn’t go over too well, but the second design, was pretty [...]

The Art of the Insult

by James Furbush on January 12, 2011

Jason demonstrates the subtle art of the insult, at the expense of both Jenny McCarthy and the Huffington Post: “Jenny McCarthy just won’t call it quits on the whole vaccines cause autism thing. Cause she’s a mom! And moms love their children! And are strong! QED. And of course this was published by Huffington Post, the [...]