I am not going to write about the brief media blitz that surrounded the controversy of the City of Philadelphia enforcing its business privilege license requirement for bloggers. My good friend and Technically Philly co-founder Sean Blanda already handled well my perspective. (Quickly, Philadelphia, like many municipal governments, requires a license to do business in [...]

Today, I’d like to announce the official content platform for homeless running nonprofit Back on My Feet. I announced in February my taking a job with the Center City-based organization that uses running clubs to create support around homeless populations seeking to move forward. From my first interview, I highlighted the need to use a [...]

Is distribution king, not content? That’s the question posed here by Alana G. Consider a simplified 2×2 matrix: content is either good or bad and distribution is either good or bad. Bad content with bad distribution is going nowhere. Good content with good distribution is in the best position to succeed. But there’s a lot [...]

If you check out Technically Philly and you follow every minute change, you may have noticed that the tagline that we boast at the site’s top has changed slightly. Last week it still read: “Technically Philly is a blog covering the community of people who use technology in Philadelphia.” Now it says, “Technically Philly is [...]

If you leave your car door unlocked, with the keys in the ignition, and your car is stolen, I don’t believe the crime is any less heinous. Stealing is wrong, no matter the level of difficulty. I read that somewhere recently and it resonated with me, reminding me of a Philadelphia story that speaks to [...]

Most media folks know that casual readers and viewers don’t really care if one news organization beats another by a few minutes on a story. That’s about the pride of those involved. If you were beaten, you either searched for a new angle or rehashed what was done, trying to add value in some way. [...]

I’ve come to believe there’s a very real difference between a blogger and a blog. The person updating a blog isn’t necessarily a blogger. Though I blog on and maintain this professional site and have certainly blogged elsewhere, I don’t consider myself a blogger. For one, I’m a professional writer, so I’d need to be [...]

It’s Memorial Day, so no one’s reading this anyway, right? In February I announced that I was blogging for uwishunu.com, a popular, award-winning arts and entertainment blog for Philadelphia. Some months I write more for them than others, not all run as expected and some are of only middling interest to casual readers, so I’ve [...]

Updated 3:17 p.m. April 23, 2009 I was in Baltimore this weekend, which is fitting, considering some of the news that came out of the Charm City last week. From Wired magazine blog Epicenter: The Tribune-owned Baltimore Sun issued Jeff Quiton of Inside Charm City a cease-and-desist letter claiming that Quinton has been republishing “substantial [...]

You should be blogging, even if casually and infrequently and briefly. I’ve already said that journalists of all stripes, anyone interested in media, research or anything in which your writing, your name and your credibility is best served defended and re-defended somewhere it can be found. One of the best reasons to traipse into this [...]