Still in the process of making the obvious improvements to this site since switching to this self-hosted version. You can now via e-mail, receive updates to this outlet for my professional work, experience as a young freelance writer and thoughts on what my future in news, writing and journalism might look like. Also, you can [...]

Well this is overdue. Exactly 575 days after my first post on this incarnation of ChristopherWink.com, I’ve done a massive redesign. If you’re in a feed reader, come on over and browse. There is so much left for me to do, though. A lot of usability, design and organization elements remain janky. We’ll get to [...]

It’s Memorial Day, so no one’s reading this anyway, right? In February I announced that I was blogging for uwishunu.com, a popular, award-winning arts and entertainment blog for Philadelphia. Some months I write more for them than others, not all run as expected and some are of only middling interest to casual readers, so I’ve [...]

Two Saturdays ago, friends Sean Blanda, Brian James Kirk and I presented at the BarCamp NewsInnovation — which Blanda organized and Brian and I helped run — on TechnicallyPhilly.com, which we co-founded in February. Read my thoughts on the event here. Read Twitter coverage of our presentation by looking through #BCNI304, which relates to the [...]

Register to attend! I’m heading to the national BarCamp for NewsInnovation at Temple University in Philadelphia. If you’re in the region, why don’t you stop on by, it runs all day to 5 p.m. and should prove interesting. I also wrote an impassioned plea about this for uwishunu.

In the late 1990s, a host of Web sites democratized the Internet, giving the average Internet-user the chance to have his own online home. In 2003, MySpace used the model and brought in a new age of social networking. Last week I posted that MySpace is on the way out, and briefly mentioned that WordPress [...]

I have a disclaimer page on this Web site now. Last week I wrote about my writing a letter on behalf of a mentor of mine. He is leaving my alma mater Temple University after being pressured out. This is a subject about which I have a personal investment. All journalists should use their personal [...]

Today, on Martin Luther King Day, the last before this country will have its first President of color, below watch the famed civil rights activist’s last speech, the night before he was assasinated 40 years ago.

I am going to the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C. tonight, to get settled and look around town, where I will be covering the inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday. More on that to come. Obama left yesterday from Philadelphia to head to D.C., also making a stop in Delaware. Leaving from Philadelphia is a [...]

Tomorrow I’ll be in D.C. to cover the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday. It seems it’s all anyone is talking about in a way no inaguration in my short life – even the first inauguration of Bill Clinton, another young Washington outsider popular with young people. Folks in D.C. are already complaining of [...]