My first clip for the Fishtown Spirit ran in last Thursday’s issue, and my second ran yesterday. Keith Angelitis just started a fire in the front room of his Frankford Avenue studio. He has a jacket on and a ball cap pulled over his ruffled brown hair. Big front windows welcome the sunlight that pours [...]

Poynter curated a list of 100 things a journalist should never do. As these things tend to do, it became a rambling collections of do’s and don’ts, but it was interesting nonetheless. Ten stuck with me as among the most important. Strive for context rather than information. Information is plentiful, context is scarce. (@rsm4lsu) Journalists [...]

I find I get mostly two responses from established reporters when they’re forced to respond to me and my generation of journalists. It’s something I’ve touched on after events before. The first comes teary-eyed. Some seem to offer despondent pity and sympathy for me, for the times and power and success I missed out on, [...]

I love what should be the new world of corrections. Bow to the all-mighty strikethrough text. If someone calls you out on an error, fix it and fix it fast, but keep the mistake in with the cross out, so you don’t hide the mistake. This shows transparency, a story’s growth and, really, keeps you, [...]

A tidy and frail little old man asked me to direct him to the coat rack. To walk him around the corner from the long and elegant main corridor of the nearly 150-year-old Union League of Philadelphia was my first deed. If nothing else, it made for interesting conversation when I made it to the [...]

Sex columnists seem to have something in common. That was a thought that came to my mind last January, while talking at the beginning of 2009 to friend who wrote a sex column for his college newspaper. None of my existing freelance contacts seemed all that interested in the topic, so I went shopping for [...]

Short of taking a trip to the Library of Congress and pouring over the Twitter archives, lots of tweets of value have been lost, particularly for us at Technically Philly. What we took for granted as testimonials and perspective from many in our community and out, we did a poor job of archiving that public [...]

There are oodles of WordPress themes, and I’ve gotten the chance to play with the backend of more than a few. While I wouldn’t want anyone to go and brand on the same theme, I do like the idea of showing folks how top flight products can take hold on little more than a template. [...]

When I first came on to Back on My Feet at the start of 2010, our Facebook presence was off. We had a Facebook account — officially named “Backon MyFeet” to fit naming restrictions and even then against the social network’s terms of use allowing accounts for only individuals. The vanity URL facebook.com/backonmyfeet, of course, [...]

Travel is most often the privilege of the privileged. Two years ago last month, I was returning from a trip that was certainly a great privilege. If you can’t go out to eat with friends without referencing something you learned or experienced from some travel experience you had, then I think you’re doing it wrong. [...]