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Jason Kottke

Turning 10

Ten years ago today I published my first post on this site.  I wasn’t sure if this blogging thing was going to last but since then I have posted more then 11,000 times to the site and the traffic has grown quite a bit.  There hasn’t been many changes to the site.  It was first [...]

The New York Times Meets Dooce

The paper of record profiles Heather Armstrong.  Here is how it started. She is the only blogger on the latest Forbes list of the Most Influential Women in Media, coming in at No. 26, which is 25 slots behind Oprah, but just one slot behind Tina Brown. Her site brings in an estimated $30,000 to [...]

The Three Year Old Camera

Jason Kottke has a great post on the results of giving his three year old a camera for Christmas. But often the camera is a tool for him. Yesterday morning we were trying to build a boat out of blocks…"the same as we built last week," Ollie said to me. I couldn’t remember how we’d [...]

How the H1N1 Vaccine is Made

Jason Kottke has a great post on how the H1N1 vaccine is made. The most striking feature of the H1N1 flu vaccine manufacturing process is the 1,200,000,000 chicken eggs required to make the 3 billion doses of vaccine that may be required worldwide. There are entire chicken farms in the US and around the world [...]

Change We Believe In

Jason Kottke redesigned his blog.  Where did the yellow go?