My good friend Eric Smith, whose successes in publishing and audience have kept me motivated, wrote some very flattering things in celebration of his own birthday, mostly about how we love to faux battle by way of our respective geek blogs Geekadelphia and Technically Philly. An excerpt: … Without realizing it, Chris had finally given [...]

The Philadelphia Daily News today ran a cover story celebrating 10 of the city’s ‘rising power players,’ in celebrating the close of this year’s State of Young Philly, and I am proud to say I’ve been included. Find the story online here, and my section here. Go buy a copy. I was included for being [...]

To promote the amusing book Broetry, which is a collection of poems from the “bro” perspective, Geekadelphia and Quirk Books held a Broetry Slam at National Mechanics, a bar in Old City Philadelphia. Attendees were encouraged to come with a broetry of their own to compete for a crown and a swag bag of great [...]

Not long ago I celebrated the one-year anniversary of ChristopherWink.com. Well, really, I think we all celebrated that fine day. This is the 500th post I’ve done here, some much better than others. Today, why not cue up the video montage and look at the way we were. Number of Views:70

I am calling myself the future of journalism. Now that is self-promotion in a world of self-promoters. Yesterday I joined a contest on the journalism-bookmarking site Publish2, in which I say “I am the future of journalism because…” Rate my Publish2 submission here. Number of Views:88

Ow, that hurts. My very good buddy Sean Blanda was named among the 100 best young journalists in the country. And, rightly, so, got a nod on the front page of Temple University’s School of Communications homepage. I was gleeful over getting the same nod – a place on the UWire 100. So where’s my [...]

Today is the one-year anniversary of this site. Yes, you may use the comments section to review some of your favorite moments, most of which I will assume brought you to tears. If you can’t do that on your own, I’ll help you out, mostly because we all know I would. Number of Views:29

Are you ready to be your biggest fan? If you want to succeed in media or any other venue where your name is your brand – comedy, acting and more – then you better be ready. Retain that humility in person-to-person interaction, but forget about it when you near the professional realm. In the spring, [...]

Four months ago I graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia. I was honored enough to be named student commencement speaker. Read text of the speech here. Only now have I gotten video of my speech online. Have a watch below. Number of Views:224

Ostensibly, journalists write for others. So I get really excited when readers respond to what I write. That can go further when someone uses my reporting for broader purposes. A common rag on newspapers and most media is that their reporting isn’t in-depth enough. Of course, the response is that one can’t track trends without [...]