Two premises: (a) Generations are cyclical. (b) Technology is everything we were alive to see invented. If my peers today are a part of an incredible age of change and innovation, when what is new is what matters most, I believe that my children’s generation in 20 years or so, will be characterized by rebelling [...]

My first smartphone arrived at my door yesterday. Considering it’s late 2011 and I report for a technology news site, you can be sure that I got a lot of crap for it being only my first. Of course, as I explained, in 2009 I was a struggling freelance writer so I had trouble enough [...]

Wipe clean the rust. Philadelphia, Pa., the first great and longest-lasting great American city, which fell on long-hard, embarrassing times for much of the second-half of the 20th century, has every reason to take on the future of urban existence — innovation. I’m using the opportunity to also introduce a new venture, Technically Philly, a [...]

What do you use for syndicated RSS or atom feeds? If you are a journalist, blogger or news gatherer of any kind, you ought to have an answer. Abandoning your browser and instead using a Web-based news aggregator can help you more efficiently consume the Internet. So, instead of chasing down top news, have the [...]

I am now the proud owner of an mp3 player – my first. It’s a trend of my coming to any popular phase months too late. Sometimes by choice, sometimes not. In anything, from electronics to music to business innovation in media, there are trend-setters, followers and late-comers. Which are you, and which is your [...]

I owe Philly.com an apology. I got heavy traffic on a recent post of mine in which I complimented the video product  (particularly Philadelphia Business Today) but regarded it as incomplete in many ways. I haven’t shifted much on my analysis, but I have learned I put the wrong address on the post. Find out [...]

My first story for the Society of Human Resource Management magazine appeared online yesterday. It focuses on the dangers that face mobile employees who use unsecured wireless networks and what human resource professionals need to know about the trends. You can’t read it because it’s by subscription. Instead, I’ll give you my lede and what [...]

It may seem like another cost, another obstacle to your dream. That’s because it is. Journalism students face the challenge of getting professional experience from newspapers and magazines that often don’t pay. Buying the multimedia equipment that would have to be part of anyone’s journalism tool box does cost money that many young journalists, fresh [...]