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 [...]

I recently finished a story on spec and had my editor balk at the story. The general rule is freelancers shouldn’t write without a promise of pay, but it was a story I didn’t find particularly challenging, did find interesting and was for a new publication, some reasons that motivate me to take a chance. [...]

If you peeked at my Blogging clips on this Web site recently, you may have noticed that I have begun contributing to uwishunu.com, a very cool arts and entertainment blog in Philadelphia. If you have managed some RSS feed for my Disclosures on this site, you may also have seen that uwishunu is a product [...]

Gosh, I do hate the buzz words that new media terms have become. A friend shared a post with an interesting graf: Journalists are obsessed with Twitter. Obsessed. They use it, talk about it, analyze it, deconstruct it, reconstruct it, love it, hate it, capitalize on it, become experts on it, monetize it, argue about [...]