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Sara Peyton

Biography

Sara Peyton has 25 years experience as a staff and freelance reporter, essayist, columnist, and book reviewer for daily and weekly newspapers in northern California. Her column, Book People, appears in the New York Times-owned Press Democrat. Her essays, interviews, book reviews, and reporting have appeared in More Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Organic Style, Newsweek, New York Times, Poets & Writers, Stanford Magazine, Weight Watchers Magazine, More.com, LHJ.com, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Magazine, and Women.com. Sara is the public relations manager at O'Reilly Media.

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Podcast Ken Milburn Unplugged
Publish Date: Nov. 1, 2006

Take a listen. The author of Digital Photography Expert Techniques, Second Edition knew Dan Rather in college, started his career taking publicity photos of Hollywood starlets, and shot album covers for Capitol Records. Ken talks to O'Reilly staffer Sara Peyton about his career, tips and tricks, and creating the wow factor.

Podcast The Way of a Digital Photography Pioneer
Publish Date: Sep. 29, 2006

In Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography, the renowned photographer writes about his journey on the "bleeding edge of digital photography's evolution." In this podcast, Johnson talks to Sara Peyton about his career, photo techniques, photo ethics in a digital age, and why, for him, taking landscape photos became synonymous with caring about the wild places he wandered in.

Podcast Creating Beautiful Digital Photos the Eddie Tapp Way
Publish Date: Sep. 15, 2006

Eddie Tapp, 2006 Photoshop Hall of Famer, award-winning photographer, and much sought after educator, discusses his new book from O'Reilly, "Photoshop Workflow Setups." In this interview by new O'Reilly staffer Sara Peyton, Eddie talks about his photography roots, the art of taking pictures, his new book...and why he lives by the rule of 300.

Podcast Barbara Brundage discusses "Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual"
Publish Date: Sep. 12, 2006

In this podcast, O'Reilly Media's Sara Peyton interviews Barbara Brundage. Barbara's an extraordinary harpist who has performed for dignitaries and celebrities around the world, including Margaret Thatcher, Tom Cruise, the Clintons, and Isaac Stern. She's also the go-to expert when it comes to using Photoshop Elements. Her brand new book, Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual, is all about the just-announced version of Elements. She talks to us about the cool new tools for digital photographers and scrapbookers in this new program.

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This, From That: NYT's Features Maker Faire!

May 13 2008

"The muffins are rolling." That's the start to New York Times reporter John Schwartz terrific tale about his recent sojourn through Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA. The frosted muffins are, of course, the electric-powered vehicles that look like they... read more

PW's Cover Story: Wikipedia's the elephant; is there room for traditional reference?

May 12 2008

Publishers Weekly discusses the impact Wikipedia's success has had on the reference book industry. And Missing Manual author John Broughton was interviewed for this cover story: John Broughton, author of "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual," a recent addition to O'Reilly's popular... read more

Boing Boinged: Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments

May 05 2008

Mark Frauenfelder, Make magazine's editor in chief, posted the preface of Robert Bruce Thompson's latest book, the Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry: All Lab, No Lecture recently on Boing Boing. In the preface Thompson tells about receiving his first chemistry... read more

Flipping for Maker Faire

May 04 2008

I worked for three days at Maker Faire and I couldn't feel more energized and happier. As only one of several enticements, I was handed a Flip to try my hand at video interviewing. If you're interested, you can view... read more

Luminaries Look to the Future Web

April 30 2008

Tim O'Reilly, Richard Scoble, Mitchell Baker, and eight other leading figures in the Web community talk to the BBC about their hopes for the future of the web. Tim O'Reilly: We created the first commercial website with a special dispensation... read more

Help Create the Maker Faire Entry on Wikipedia

April 30 2008

What makes millions of people build an encyclopedia for free? How can you make Wikipedia better and contribute to the world of free knowledge? Visit with the makers, the hackers, and the volunteers of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia at... read more

KRON 4's Brian Shields talks with George LeBrun & Joshua Ross

April 28 2008

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, we launched O'Reilly InPractice. Our new consulting and training division aims to help companies reposition themselves and thrive in a user-centered economy. Here KRON 4's Brian Shields talks with George... read more

Philipp Lenssen Talks about Google Apps & Hacks

April 23 2008

When Google lifted traditional office applications into its "cloud" of fast network connections, powerful servers, and seemingly limitless storage, it changed the way many of us create, organize, and share information. And, as Press Democrat reporter Nathan Halverson noted in... read more

Chatting with George LeBrun about O'Reilly InPractice

April 22 2008

Congratulations to George LeBrun, who takes the reins of a newly announced O'Reilly division--O'Reilly InPractice. This new consulting and training division aims to help companies intelligently and successfully reposition themselves in the global network—and thrive in a user-centered economy. And... read more

Derrick Story Talks about Product Development with the Authors of Subject to Change

April 15 2008

O'Reilly's digital media evangelist Derrick Story got a chance recently to interview three of the four authors of a timely new book, "Subject to Change." You'll hear Adaptive Path's Brandon Schauer, David Verba, and Peter Merholz talking with Derrick about... read more

Thinking about Upgrading to Office 2008 for Mac?

April 15 2008

Jim Elferdink, author of "Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual," fills us in on the coolest new features that Office for Windows can't match. Here are some of the best: Publishing Layout view. If you use Word to create... read more

News from Tasmania: New Lightroom Gallery

April 13 2008

The Lightroom Adventure crew posted a new photo gallery. Lightroom Adventure Gallery 2 contains images taken mostly from Tasmania's east coast. View more here. (Use the drop down menu when you get to the Gallery page to navigate to other... read more

Things to Do at 100

April 04 2008

And now for some Friday inspiration... Many of us drag ourselves around and complain we feel 100 years or more when we're much, much younger. But what would you do if you were lucky enough to enter triple digits. That's... read more

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adventure 2008: Destination Tasmania

April 02 2008

Star photographers from across North America, Germany, Great Britain, and Australia--including O'Reilly authors Mikkel Aaland, Katrin Eismann, and Peter Krogh--are gathering in Tasmania to road test Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 beta. Tech journalist Leo Laporte weaves his report together with images... read more

Ready to Go Topless?

April 01 2008

Dan Saffer--whose upcoming O'Reilly title, "Interactive Gestures: Designing Gestural Interfaces" will be published later in the year--is attracting gobs of media attention for suggesting we go topless in meetings. (And no, I'm not talking about the ever increasing plunge of... read more
Sara Peyton