Posts Tagged ‘Brian James Kirk’

Introducing the 67th ward

[Updated: URL is dead, now go here.] With a bit of a twinkle in our eyes, my colleagues Brian James Kirk and Sean Blanda, today, we launch a small testament to our love for that city that lives in Philadelphia’s historic shadow: New York. Today, we launch the 67th ward. It’s not much now and [...]

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Faint Praise from Philly Weekly Better than Best issue

All of my thoughts Eh, who has the energy. Instead, I’ll leave it to you: Philadelphia Weekly’s Better than Best issue Best Self-Promoters on the New Media Scene To be honest, we’re not always sure exactly what it is the young journalists at Technically Philly are trying to accomplish at the site. Are they attempting [...]

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Community News Startups: Presentation notes from BarCamp for NewsInnovation

Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at the BarCamp NewsInnovation — which Blanda organized and Brian and I helped run — on TechnicallyPhilly.com, which we co-founded in February. Read my thoughts on the event here. Read Twitter coverage of our presentation by looking through #BCNI304, which relates to the [...]

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Introducing Technically Philly: covering the Philadelphia technology community

Philadelphia’s technology scene is, well, growing, expanding, maturing, developing, whatever. There are a host of worlds and working parts to it, different scenes, from Center City, to Old City, to South Philly, to the northwest and West Philly, up to the ‘burbs and, well, in some way, everywhere in between. The problem is that there [...]

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