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Derek Powazek

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loser-generated content

Dumb as bricks, perhaps, but still not bricks

People who talk about 'building community' should go be architects. Because people are not bricks.
— Pixish cofounder Derek Powazek, on the art of cajoling users to contribute content, "The Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing for Creatives," SXSW Interactive 2008

12:30 PM on Sat Mar 8 2008
By Owen Thomas
314 views, 4 comments

uncomfortable

Flickr's Heather Champ can take a joke -- and does

San Francisco A-List bloggers Derek Powazek, the man who designed Blogger's logo, and Heather Champ, a community manager at Flickr, air out a domestic dispute in the Wall Street Journal:
For Derek Powazek, 34, there are limits to what he'll share with his wife, Heather. The San Francisco couple has separate blogs; his focuses on digital media, hers on photography. Mr. Powazek says he sometimes sees her quoting his best jokes on her blog, and he tells her not to steal his material (she credits him after the fact). As for sharing one blog, the idea "never came up," he says. "It would be like saying, 'Let's share our underwear.'"
Ewww. That's another thing you shouldn't share, Derek.

6:57 PM on Fri Aug 3 2007
By Owen Thomas
1,210 views, 2 comments

Latest by gregorsamsa77: Ah Derek Powazek. One of the biggest cry-babies of Web 2.0. By the way, blogger.com was home to a lot of that. Whatever happened to Jack Saturn? Oooh that was the biggest cry-baby of all. Not to mention Megnut, who more »

great expectations

Silicon Valley's baby boom

I never intended for the blogger-baby story, which began with the birth of Ollie Kottke to A-list bloggers Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan, to become quite such a saga, but news has a way of happening. Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are no longer expecting a baby — they have a daughter, Sonnet Beatrice Butterfield, according to fellow Yahoo executive Bradley Horowitz. Here's the rundown on the rest of the couples mentioned in yesterday's baby poll, which — well done, readers — you guessed correctly. More »

Feature

7:45 AM on Thu Jul 12 2007
By Owen Thomas
3,665 views, 3 comments

Latest by Megan McCarthy: Heather Champ is not pregnant. more »

dynasties

Let's play hide the baby

Last week, the birth of a son (and future blogger) to Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan reminded us of another famous Web personality who triedhad a colleague try, bizarrely, to claim that the mom-to-be's pregnancy was "off the record." (Memo to other would-be secret-keepers: "Off the record" is always a matter of mutual agreement between reporter and source, not something you can declare unilaterally.) We asked for guesses on who it was, and you had lots of good ones. Now it's time to vote, picking out the baby-hiders from among these glamorous A-list bloggers. Pictures of the people you've speculated about, and a poll, after the jump. More »

1:26 PM on Wed Jul 11 2007
By Owen Thomas
3,312 views, 7 comments

Latest by anildash: Sigh. I can't believe I'm not winning this popularity contest! Oh, wait... what? Mena asks me to post a comment on her behalf since she doesn't have a commenter account: "You know this isn't the way I wanted Ben to find out. more »

geeking out

Geeking out: ETech 2006, Tuesday

ETech 2006 rolls on, and Scott Beale keeps photographing the folks who make the Internet. Tuesday's highlights include Tim Bray's Indy outfit, Esther Dyson's spelling, and Jen King's primal scream. More »

10:29 AM on Wed Mar 8 2006
By ndouglas
228 views, Comment