In all of regions, there is a great need to envision the future of the metro newsroom, which feature smart, engaged reporters on a variety of beats able to work together to better inform other residents and keep government honest. In a fractured media ecosystem, the newsroom of the future is coworking for independent media. [...]

Later this week, I’ll help organize the fourth-annual BarCamp NewsInnovation. It will again be, in my biased opinion, among the most meaningful media un-conferences in the country. We’ll have an open news hackathon again, ProPublica social media editor Daniel Victor will talk strategy and representatives will talk shop from legacy media powerhouses and independent news [...]

Facial detection can be blocked by changing the contrast of and spatial relationship between key facial features. So, though growing a beard might throw a casual human glance off, the growing process of computerized recognition is rarely tricked, because it focuses primarily on the T made by your eyes and the bridge of your nose. [...]

More than 80 events celebrating technology and innovation in the Delaware Valley are taking place over the next few days as part of the second annual Philly Tech Week presented by AT&T and organized by Technically Philly. We first introduced this second year last fall. I am enormously proud to follow the work we managed [...]

Meet Ph.ly, the local URL shortener and the curated weekly email that will make you a better Philadelphian. Try the tool and add your email here. Last week, we at Technically Media announced that we launched Ph.ly, which has two primary features. URL shortener with a Philly focus — Try ph.ly/connect to see how domains [...]

Find the nearest free wireless internet hotspot in Philadelphia by using Connect Philly, a new mapping and text message tool we at Technically Philly released last week. The tool, which can also be reached by ph.ly/connect, The tool, which is meant to be a part of the digital access conversation, was unveiled formally with an [...]

For any venture or project that reaches any remote level of success, there are surely failures that surround it. By any standard, Technically Media is no more than a very small success, but before building that small business, I’ve had more than my fair share of failures. Being no stranger to rejection, I’ve tried my [...]

When pitching your venture or product, send a business or technology reporter a three sentence email, explaining in super simple language (a) what your project is, (b) why it matters and (b) who you are. That was one of the better received recommendations I made while presenting for the Lean Startup seminar held at the [...]

There’s no shortage of conversation about the end of search engine optimization. As search gets more personalized — cache and cookies and the rest — ensuring that your business, organization or another site ranks highly when people use web search tools becomes less straightforward. Still, it’s naturally something that I get asked about a lot [...]

In middle school, I collected baseball cards. A lot of baseball cards. In third grade, I tried pogs before they were outlawed in class when it was found we were effectively gambling with them. In a naive, youthful pursuit of seeing every movie ever made, I amassed piles of them on VHS and DVD. My [...]