Illustration of Derek Powazek by Adam Ellis

Posts about Writing

How to Write a Book in Three Easy Steps

My book, Design for Community, has just gone out of print. It lives on as a download, but it’s just…

In ALA: Where am I?

Whoops, I did it again. I let a long-simmering annoyance with some quirk of current web design spill over into…

Do What You Suck At

In Merlin’s latest 43 Folders podcast, The Perfect Apostrophe, he tells the story of the book he almost wrote. You…

What Would Google Do?

Google and I, we’re old friends. I’ve written about them here and there for years. Google, as a web innovator,…

Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!

I recently had the good fortune to work with a client who asked me to, in addition to doing my…

Bookends in Words Magazine

I’m thrilled to have contributed an updated version of my protest story, Bookends, to the 4th issue of Words! Words!…

Putting the “purpose” in repurpose

My story of faith and doubt, Wrestling with an Angel, which originally appeared in Fray, has been republished this week…

California Dreamin

My California, the book I contributed an essay to, is not only a good read – it’s also a good…

Duh

Wired News: It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now “Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the ‘I’ in…


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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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