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Archive for March 2009

links for 2009-03-30

What was the first website to hide troll's activity to everyone but the troll himself? I noticed the same wrong…

This is what’s wrong with ebooks

So lemme get this straight. It costs $8.37 for me to get a book made of paper, laboriously printed on…

Layer Tennis

Today at noon I’m playing Layer Tennis with Jason Santa Maria with none other than Jim Coudal doing the play-by-play.…

Now is a Great Time to Be a Media Maker

This may be the best time in history to make media. I’ll explain why, but first a personal story. It’s…

links for 2009-03-24

Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things A brilliant piece of writing that seems like it's about bridges, but isn't.…

Mike Rohde’s SXSW Sketchnotes

Mike Rohde is a designer who attended SXSW last week and filled a notebook with sketches and notes on the…

links for 2009-03-22

Auto Tuning on Vimeo I'm holding all of my design reviews like this from now on. (tags: video funny design…

links for 2009-03-20

kung fu grippe – Conferences, Friends, and Stuff That Really Matters "Never miss an opportunity to meet the faces behind…

links for 2009-03-17

How Not To Sort By Average Rating "Score = Lower bound of Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter."…

Design for the Wisdom of Crowds

Yesterday I gave a fun talk at SXSW. Here are a few photos. As promised, here are the slides. Related…


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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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