Image of Old City Philadelphia cobblestone courtesy of Flickr user IceNineJon. In the future, this project leads to: Open source platform for other regionally-grouped niche sites to come together. Community-edited profiles of local focus and meaning (i.e. city government lobbyists, community associations presidents and other leaders who might otherwise remain anonymous) A cross-platform tool that [...]

I missed the release of the podcast once, and it took a conference four months later to remind me once more. Back in December, my fellow Technically Philly co-founder Sean Blanda and I spoke to CoPress co-founders Greg Linch and Daniel Bachhuber about our site’s development and its work with News Inkubator, which was passed [...]

Updated 4/25/10 @ 5:41 p.m. with William Penn Foundation clarification Fewer than four months after its Philadelphia media elite round table to discuss the subject, the William Penn Foundation has released a more detailed outline of its intentions of investing and developing local online journalism in the region. The report, which was released Wednesday, comes [...]

I’ve decided to step away from self-employment. I’ve spent the last year of my life freelancing, by some accounts, at perhaps the worst time to do so in my life and arguably the worst time in the history of journalism. After a meeting of the most influential media leaders in the region made clear no [...]

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 [...]