With 100 simple rules they attribute to their success organized in a dozen chapters spread across fewer than 300 short pages, the founders of web firm 37signals aim to affect any organization or business culture with Rework, their management style book that was released in March. It has gotten quite a bit of attention — [...]

The federal tax deadline is barreling toward us. I thought I’d share what little I know and what I’m reading about deducting home expenses for those of us who have done just that this fiscal year. It’s a great way to keep your home costs down, but, of course, the rules are a bit more [...]

Suppose you’re freelancing, and you want to do things real legal like — with the tax season on your mind. If only for ease on your taxes, it’s my limited experience and what others have contended that you ought to set up your own business. It doesn’t come with any liability or branding protection, but [...]

Today, more than a month after we officially launched and longer than a week after being rejected by the primary organization we directed the proposal, we at Technically Philly introduced News Inkubator to our readers. It’s a tweaked, matured and better-branded version of what I first introduced here in October. It’s a business services hub [...]

Highly localized news and its intersection with profitable, sustainable news is already starting to dominate conversations about the future of news in the United States. The numbers and business plans, relationships with each other and with legacy news organizations and who will be written into history for leading the movement seemed trending themes of the  [...]

Update August 31 @ 2:24 p.m.: I was pre-approved but for far less than expected, just $100,000, though I do have some savings that I could put to a larger down-payment. That said, some of my priorities have to be changed. Broadly speaking, I’m looking for a home that is selling at or not far [...]

A big obstacle for developing a respected online news startup is access. That’s why having a feature interview with the new president of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce was another in  a continuously more consistent stream of serious, originally-reported material for Technically Philly. Rob Wonderling is losing his office in the Harrisburg State Capitol [...]

Update: We lost. Grant money in journalism is flowing freely in a tightened economy and a historic juncture in print media. Seems like an opportunity. So, my two partners and I, who founded Technically Philly, applied for the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, a $10,000 grant to support new ideas in news. See our [...]

It would create a permanent fissure in the media world. The question of whether plummeting advertising numbers are representative more of a broader trend than just the economy was the focus of an interesting post from James Fallows of the Atlantic, as I found from Philadelphia Inquirer online editor Chris Krewson. The real problem is, [...]

I stepped into uneasy ground when I graduated from college last year. For a host of reasons, not least of which are a recession and free falling print industry, freelancing isn’t the surest bet for this young journalist. Likely not for you either. Job prospects are rare and uniquely competitive now. So, of course, it’s [...]