In June, I introduced Story Shuffle, the themed, first-person storytelling event. Two months later, we hosted a second, as per our every other month schedule for the friendly story sharing night. We’re shooting to host the third in September. It’s ready to grow, so now is when we invite big shots like Eric Smith. The [...]

I like projects. I enjoy pointing out skills, traits, knowledge sets or the like that I lack and want to develop and finding practical, fun, realistic ways to develop them as best I can — in small, attainable steps. I love storytelling. I want to be a better, more captivating, more experienced storyteller. I also [...]

Sometimes people think you have something interesting to say. I first met Joel Capperella, who works for Yoh, a 70-year-old technology staffing firm and business unit of Day & Zimmerman, when he showed up out of curiosity at a Philly Startup Leaders Fishbowl on Technically Philly. In his role at Yoh, he contributes to the [...]

After the unfortunate passing of the show’s host earlier this month, I may have been on one of the last episodes of Carole’s Technology Corner, a trend radio program broadcast weekly on 900AM WURD in Philadelphia. On Dec. 30, 2009, I took the 15 minute walk from my home in Fishtown to the Penn Treaty [...]

You missed the national BarCamp for NewsInnovation conference this past Saturday, held at Temple University in North Philadelphia — even though I encouraged you to come. I sure didn’t. As I posted about the week prior, I was in Annenberg Hall on April 25. It seemed to be a personification of online communities and conversations [...]

Boxing legend Joe Frazier is the focus of my second professionally produced radio piece, though the first to carry the radio station’s name in my disptatch. Eight months after filing a trial state government report for the Harrisburg bureau of KYW 1060 news radio, I proudly completed a feature report for WHYY, Philadelphia’s NPR affiliate. [...]

KYW News radio Harrisburg bureau chief Tony Romeo kindly agreed to show me the rough ropes of radio reporting and production on Monday. Below hear my report – with his lede – and the script – with much credit to Tony. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Democratic candidate for Attorney General today [...]

Details of the long-rumored “Bonusgate” scandal dropped this afternoon. I helped a bit with the reporting for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story written by Dennis Roddy and was charged with cutting some audio for the paper’s Web site. Hear Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett at his 2 P.M. news conference… [audio http://www.post-gazette.com/downloads/20080710cw_BonusgatenewserA.mp3] HARRISBURG — Attorney General [...]

HARRISBURG — A deal to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike “will not see the light of day,” vowed the chairman of the House Transportation Committee yesterday. That would effectively kill Gov. Ed Rendell’s proposal to enter into a $12.8 billion, 75-year lease with a consortium comprising the Spanish multinational Abertis Infraestructuras SA and Citi Infrastructure Investors, [...]

I contributed to today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report that a state budget deal was reached and signed last night. I also cut an audio clip of Gov. Ed Rendell speaking on the budget, which the Post-Gazette put on its Web site: hooray for New Media! [audio http://www.post-gazette.com/downloads/20080705_Rendell_Budget.mp3] Alongside Rendell is House Appropriations Chairman Dwight Evans, D-Philadelphia, [...]