370: ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason Kottke

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

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Links:

• web.archive.org/web/20110310183048/http://www.….

• Kottke.org’s 10th anniversary (kottke.org/08/03/kottkeorg-is-ten-years-old-to…), with a retrospective of site designs.

• Stellar:
• Jason’s introduction (kottke.org/11/03/introducing-stellar).

• Miriam Krule’s profile for The Atlantic (theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/jas…).

• Archive.org’s archive of the home page (web.archive.org/web/20160205045812/http://stel…).

• Jason’s farewell post, upon shutting it down in 2016 (stellar-status.tumblr.com/post/147805983872/ou…). (“I’m not good at quitting things.”)

• The Suck.com origin story (kottke.org/15/10/the-suckcom-origin-story).

• Jason’s “Ask Me Anything” solicitation for questions (kottke.org/23/02/ask-me-anything).

• Neolithic weblogs:
• Jorn Barger’s Robot Wisdom (web.archive.org/web/20000815223307/http://www.…). He coined the term “weblog” and hosted a good FAQ (web.archive.org/web/20000817093828/http:/www.r…).

• Justin Hall’s Justin’s Links (links.net).

• Dave Winer’s Davenet (scripting.com/davenet), which started in 1994.

• Dean Allen:
• Cardigan Industries (web.archive.org/web/20040619074811/http://www.…) (“At the corner of art and commerce.”)

• Textism (web.archive.org/web/20020802160845/http://www.…), perhaps the best written, best designed weblog ever. (“Make haste slowly.”)

• Dean’s bio (web.archive.org/web/20040619001505/http://www.…), one of my favorite pieces of writing ever.

• Favrd (web.archive.org/web/20080908123532/http://text…).

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