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Posts about Technology

How to Take Halfway Decent Photos with an iPhone

Heather and I think of our cellphones more as cameras with phone attachments than phones with camera functions. So when…

Like Holding the Future in Your Hand

I am enough of a contrarian that even I was a little tired of the iPhone ads, blog posts, and…

Will Post for Money

Or: Consumer-Made Media and the Almighty Buck Jason Calacanis is the P.T. Barnum of the weblog world. Barnum took a…

The Etiquette of Modern Communication

The other day I found myself needing to contact a friend. This friend and I, we’re both bleeding edge technology…

Generation M

I’m 33. That means I’m stuck somewhere in between Generation X and Y. Generation X was stereotyped as lazy postmodernists,…

Back in Black

My first laptop was a black Apple Powerbook G3, aka the WallStreet. I dragged the ten pound sucker across Europe…

Thanks a lot, Apple

I’ve used Apple computers since high school. If it wasn’t for the Mac, I probably wouldn’t have wound up working…

Abdicatechnology

I’ve been thinking about something lately. What do you call it when you voluntarily give up control of some piece…


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Hi, I’m Derek. I live in San Francisco. I’m the cofounder of Fertile Medium and editor of Fray. I sometimes post things to Flickr and Twitter. My dog’s name is Bug. More.







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