The old saying goes that a reporter is only as good as his sources. To tell or find a story, one needs to have the resources and access to perspective and insight. In my few years as a journalist, I’ve taken considerable effort to build relationships and gather sources. That mostly amounted to piles and [...]

First, let’s acknowledge that three years is not a terribly long time. Still, I’m proud that three years ago last month, Brian James Kirk, Sean Blanda and I launched a blog to cover the technology community of Philadelphia. Three years later, we are full-time employees of a growing business with a good reputation. In that [...]

The legacy of your work has a value harder to compare with pure money, so we should try our best to incorporate that in our professional decision making. I’m not a professional athlete. That may surprise many of you. Still, without any real awareness of the experience, I find myself scratching my head whenever a [...]

Philadelphia, like any other city that wants to compete in a global marketplace, needs a regional distinction that sets it apart, and in this place, nothing makes more sense than for Philadelphia to define itself as the hub for social entrepreneurship and urban renewal. Around the world, our hubs of innovation and culture, of education [...]

Most of us (myself included) could do a better job of more often recognizing that when we buy something, we are also, in a way, voting for it. Cost analysis should include an awareness of what message you’re sending when buying something or going somewhere (I want this beer/farm/news site/bar/zoo/restauant, etc. to exist.) Purchase power [...]

A journalist salary bubble may still be lurking somewhere beyond the newspaper right-sizing of the past decade. We at Technically Philly are in the process of hiring our first reporter — to begin as an independent contractor expected to make something like $30,000 in a 12-month period. That’s a respectable, entry-level salary for a young, [...]

My colleague Brian James Kirk shared these slides from a presentation from the CEO of Fab.com, a membership-based design resource that is less than a year ago. The slides and the takeaways are valuable. 21 things we're learning at Fab.com – October 2011 View more presentations from Jason Goldberg Number of Views:432

Open publication – Free publishing The second annual Philly Tech Week will take place April 22-28, 2011, as we announced on Technically Philly recently. We unveiled our media kit, made impressively by my colleague Brian James Kirk, which you can see here. The open calendar of events was first held this past April, attracting more [...]

In honor of the passing of Steve Jobs, I was trolling through videos of the Apple co-founder. I came across one that was very relevant to the news industry today. More than a year ago, Steve Jobs spoke about the iPad and Apple’s broad role in touching publishing and journalism, during a broader interview at [...]

Knee deep in a service industry business, I’ve found a real, consistent rhythm of where financial success comes to these types of companies. The act of selling products, of course, is like finding your Atman of the service industry, so, acknowledging that that is at the top of the pyramid and any kind of client [...]