This weekend, I spent at least 30 hours in a windowless room of Drexel University for Random Hacks of Kindness Philadelphia, an international globally-minded hackathon brought to Philly by computer science PhD student and West Philly homeowner Mike Brennan. It was actually a total hoot. Number of Views:124

With the passage of Resolution 110218, Philadelphia City Council officially named the last six days of April officially as Philly Tech Week, as celebrated with a reading of the resolution in council chambers Thursday morning. There, my colleague Sean Blanda and I, two of the three co-founders of Technically Philly and organizers of Philly Tech [...]

Forty leaders in Philadelphia media were on hand last week for the unveiling of a structure to develop more public affairs journalism in the region, as proposed by a university research center on behalf of the William Penn Foundation. From 8:30 a.m. to after 2 p.m. on Jan. 7 inside the Delaware Valley Regional Planning [...]

Whether Web technology and social media can have a major impact on local politics in a place like Philadelphia or if they remain secondary tools, became the major topic and a divided one at a panel that served as the November Refresh Philly meeting. The hour-long panel discussion, which I moderated, was entitled the Future [...]

You missed the national BarCamp for NewsInnovation conference this past Saturday, held at Temple University in North Philadelphia — even though I encouraged you to come. I sure didn’t. As I posted about the week prior, I was in Annenberg Hall on April 25. It seemed to be a personification of online communities and conversations [...]

I’ve been backpacking Europe. I returned last week and have been getting out from underneath the transition since then. Though this is a blog on being a young journalist housed on my professional site, I can’t help but share some of the blogging and podcasting I did on WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com. Number of Views:322

Have you seen WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com, the site on which my European backpacking trip with a friend is being chronicled? Check it out here. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3UU3hnliAM] Number of Views:47

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:216

KYW News radio Harrisburg bureau chief Tony Romeo kindly agreed to show me the rough ropes of radio reporting and production on Monday. Below hear my report – with his lede – and the script – with much credit to Tony. [audio:http://christopherwink.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Morganelli-Wink.mp3] The Democratic candidate for Attorney General today challenged the way his incumbent opponent [...]

Details of the long-rumored “Bonusgate” scandal dropped this afternoon. I helped a bit with the reporting for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story written by Dennis Roddy and was charged with cutting some audio for the paper’s Web site. Hear Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett at his 2 P.M. news conference… [audio http://www.post-gazette.com/downloads/20080710cw_BonusgatenewserA.mp3] HARRISBURG — Attorney General [...]