The Difference Between Suck and Suck in a Blog

Jason Kottke returns to the show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kottke.org.

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Links:

• 0sil8.
• Kottke.org’s 10th anniversary, with a retrospective of site designs.
• Stellar:
  • Jason’s introduction.
  • Miriam Krule’s profile for The Atlantic.
  • Archive.org’s archive of the home page.
  • Jason’s farewell post, upon shutting it down in 2016. (“I’m not good at quitting things.”)
• The Suck.com origin story.
• Jason’s “Ask Me Anything” solicitation for questions.
• Neolithic weblogs:
  • Jorn Barger’s Robot Wisdom. He coined the term “weblog” and hosted a good FAQ.
  • Justin Hall’s Justin’s Links.
  • Dave Winer’s Davenet, which started in 1994.
• Dean Allen:
  • Cardigan Industries (“At the corner of art and commerce.”)
  • Textism, perhaps the best written, best designed weblog ever. (“Make haste slowly.”)
  • Dean’s bio, one of my favorite pieces of writing ever.
  • Favrd.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.