I was interested to cover the convergence of social networks and fine arts institutions in a story running in today’s Inquirer. While it focuses on Philadelphia examples, there are broader implications, I think. On Valentine’s Day, Pennsylvania Ballet staff members stood in the Merriam Theater’s lobby handing out coasters that bore what might have seemed [...]

Last month, Alex Irwin, a good friend and a very hip arts blogger and Philadelphia music writer, posted that he gave over publishing rights of two of his photos to an online travel guide for Seattle, where he was visiting his girlfriend when snapped the pictures. Wrong move, I say. Let me tell you why. [...]

I got a comment from “Mike” on a post early last month. Interesting post. Curious on why you say “MySpace is lame.” I read recently that MySpace is among the most-visited Web sites with over 1b visits per month… Of course he is right. MySpace remains one of the most popular Web sites in the [...]

We already got the message. Twenty-somethings of today, I suspect, are already careful about their presences online. We were coming to professional age when we were first joining social networks. But the conversations seems to be ongoing. The Economist magazine has released its annual forecast for the coming year, and, among their predictions, the U.K. [...]

Where do you store your photos online? I’ve used at least five different services and currently have three active accounts and can’t say I’m sold on any of them. Read my thoughts and share your own. Am I missing out on the go-to place to store, save and share photographs? Number of Views:44

How many e-mail addresses do you have in your address book? Sources have been important to journalists of all shape and caliber for the profession’s entire history, perhaps even more so for freelancers, who are guiding a ship and finding their story pitches on their own. But in an age of social networks and e-mail [...]

Last week I announced my intentions to give one of the hardest professional roads a try. I’m trying to be a freelance journalist – in Philadelphia, a city in a persistent media hiring freeze. So if it’s always important to brand yourself, now is a particularly important juncture for this underemployed writer. For more than [...]

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Google Reader I am back. Last month I returned from five weeks backpacking Europe and moved into a new home in Frankford, a neighborhood in lower Northeast Philadelphia. Somehow, even though I was travel blogging and video podcasting at WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com, my month-plus European tour was an Internet vacation (IV) for me. It was a chance [...]

I was fairly late in joining Youtube – one year ago today, the day after I launched this Web site. My roommate first told me about the video sharing and hosting site in November 2005, a year after it launched and a year before Google purchased it. However, I didn’t even think to join it [...]