We at Technically Philly have had many short stops with sales help, making it one of our most prominent failures. Like  many startups, we found that the three of us did the best sales, particularly when we were getting started. I came across one of the better summations of why and what one could learn [...]

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 [...]

The online homes, portfolios and projects of my friends and colleagues: Abi Scholz Adventures with Neal Alex Irwin: etc. Alex Kingsbury Andrew Thompson Anna Buchbauer Becky Bordo Bharath Srinivas Blythe Colyer Brian James Kirk Brian Reinhardt Brian White Brianna Barry Bryant Avondoglio Cherry and What Chris Reber Chris Stover Chris Stover on Xanga Christopher Schwartz [...]

I was asked to guest post on Dateline Accra, the small, personal travel blog of Stephen Zook, a young journalist whose spirit I adored when I was editing his copy a few years ago at The Temple News, the college newspaper I once worked and this year he’ll lead. He is studying in Accra, the [...]

I don’t want to repeat this anymore, so let me direct you elsewhere. I got an e-mail from a young aspiring journalist, still in high school and already coming to the questions I just started coming upon late in college. Her question: how do you buy spaces on a google seerch? Hey, even she will [...]

The only proper way a journalist could celebrate Valentine’s Day 2009 is to look elsewhere, the past, namely. It might have been hard to think in February 2008 that one year later would only look darker for newspapers. Let’s look back on those happier times with what was going on in the blogosphere circa Cupid’s [...]

In the past week or so I came across a number of interesting or at least interest-causing posts on newspaper revenue models and thought I’d share some. Number of Views:60