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Since December 2007, Christopher Wink has [cartotalposts] posts about about journalism, entrepreneurship, productivity and my writing, reading and speaking. See them all below.

• Rye whiskey is much harder to make than bourbon
• Examples of journalism strategy outside news organizations
• My Resolutions for 2025
• My 2024 in review
• America: A Farewell Tour
• Beat reporters: How to respond to an angry community source
• Autocracy Inc.
• Who’s afraid of gender?
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
• A few lessons from the 15th annual Klein News Innovation Camp
• Keynote: What marketers need to know about the creator economy
• What happens to our digital remains after we die?
• Why are there so few tech apprenticeships?
• Entrepreneurship is bipartisan
• Journalists subsidize PR
• Living and working with AI
• THRIVING named top podcast by PA News Media Association
• The New Geography of Jobs
• Storytelling and data work together for ecosystem building
• Word Origins: how etymology interprets English
• Why has war lasted for thousands of years?
• What I’ve learned from being threatened with legal action as a journalist and news publisher
• What are luxury beliefs?
• Technical.ly is honored for its “journalistic impact”
• How Rome fell
• Free speech guarantees your right to speak, not your right for it to be heard
• The Singularity is Nearer
• Takeaways from books I started but never finished
• Burn Book by Kara Swisher
• My Technical.ly Builders Conference keynote May 2024
• The Creative Spark of humanity
• Why the kids aren’t growing up
• Temple University is a mess. Let’s fix it.
• Atomic Habits
• Coded by Kids named me a ‘Champion for Change’
• Ban smartphones from schools
• Power and Progress
• I was honored with the 2024 IBIT “Innovators Award”
• A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present and Future: Alice Randall
• Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
• How to use brain science to tell be stories: Story Genius
• Afrofuturism
• Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 1994 novel “Paradise”
• Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz
• Walkable City by Jeff Speck
• Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World
• Why do so many people hate journalists so much?
• The Moundbuilders of the Eastern Woodlands
• Quantum Supremacy by Michio Kaku
• Tabula Rasa: John McPhee
• Philadelphia’s 1844 Nativist Riots: Ken Milano
• I read 56 books in 2023
• 2024 Resolutions
• My 2023 in review
• Will AI be good or bad for journalism?
• Dawn of Everything: how to understand the origins of inequality
• Economic development strategies must focus on people, not companies
• Named an ‘Advocate for Equity’
• When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic
• Middle managers matter: remarks at TAB event
• Writing for Busy Readers
• Born in Blackness by Howard W. French
• Simon Sinek’s Infinite Game
• Technical.ly was honored with a DCRAC community service award
• The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
• What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Whatever you need to do with it
• Can we mourn men who have done terrible things?
• Bullshit Jobs
• Lessons on writing from four Russian masters (and George Saunders)
• What if We’re Wrong: by Chuck Klosterman
• How poverty in America works
• Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age
• Wine making with Patrick
• What should your city be in 150 years?
• Humanity is on ‘The Precipice’: How can we think about lasting a million years more?
• Inciting Joy
• Advice on ‘the creative act’ from Rick Rubin
• Kindnesses high school teachers extended to me
• How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America
• Beyond Order
• Featured speaker @ Sloss Tech in Birmingham, Alabama
• How we evolved the Technical.ly mission over time
• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson
• Finding the Mother Tree
• What would it mean to build AI like octopuses, fungi or forests?
• The Filter Bubble
• The Hot Hand is real (with the research to prove it)
• Bootstrapped: the mythology of the American Dream
• Ron Desantis: Courage to be Free
• Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
• NRG Philadelphia media flag football tournament: Champions!
• The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
• A History of the World in Eight Plagues
• How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
• Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
• A history of corporations by William Magnuson
• Is American leadership ‘Adrift’?
• Where are the 5+ million prime age men missing from the workforce?
• Limitless: the history and future of the Federal Reserve Bank
• Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
• Road to Serfdom
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• The End of The World is Just The Beginning: Peter Zeihan
• Technical.ly Builders conference keynote
• How was your pandemic?
• 935 Lies: what journalism learned from the War in Iraq
• Thomas Piketty’s Time for Socialism
• The Emotional Life of a Toddler
• Woke Inc
• First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing and Life
• Semicolons
• What We Owe The Future
• The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
• 9 Nasty Words by John McWhorter
• CityCast interview on THRIVING
• After 7 years, I am no longer Generocity.org publisher
• Woke Racism: notes from John McWhorter’s controversial 2021 book
• Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
• How to have better conversations
• Fight Like Hell: under told stories of the union movement
• Metaphors We Live By from the influential 1980 book
• The Data Detective: notes from Tim Harford’s 2020 guide on numeracy
• Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News
• Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
• The parenting lifecycle
• A list of once-great, now closed Philadelphia manufacturing giants
• The Rise of English
• Creativity is ‘Messy,’ notes on Tim Harford’s 2016 book
• What a feud between YouTuber Coffeezilla and influencer Logan Paul says about journalism
• The Undercover Economist: notes from Tim Harford’s 2005 debut
• The Authoritarian Moment: notes from Ben Shapiro’s 2021 book
• 3 ways journalists can use AI writing ethically
• Divided We Fall
• My 2023 Resolutions
• My 2022 in review
• The books I read in 2022
• I Never Thought of It That Way: notes on having difficult conversations
• Code of the Street
• Intellectuals and Society
• Merchants of Doubt
• Finding your ikigai
• Guns, Germs and Steel: notes from the 1997 classic
• How will the world end?
• Exploring the relevance of philosophy with “Plato at the Googleplex”
• Shop Class as Soulcraft
• Named among the 100 Pennsylvanians having the biggest mission impact
• Rules for Radicals: lessons from Saul Alinsky’s influential 1971 treatise
• Measure What Matters: a book on setting goals and hitting them
• Three types of “Journalism Thinking” coming from outside news organizations
• Happiness Hypothesis
• The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
• Lil Technical.ly shoutout from New York Times
• Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy by Amy Gajda
• The Parable of St Laurentius
• The Quiet Before: the unexpected origins of radical ideas by Gal Beckerman
• Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
• The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail
• Dialect Diversity in America: notes from William Labov’s 2012 book on language change
• Thinking in Bets: insights on decision science from the 2018 book by Annie Duke
• Free to Choose: Milton Friedman’s 1980 defense of American capitalism
• The many locations of the Pen and Pencil Club
• Power of Habit: notes from the 2012 bestseller by Charles Duhigg
• FREE SPEECH: its history and future by Jacob Mchangama
• Stumbling on Happiness
• Me & White Supremacy: notes on the 2021 book by Layla Saad
• All the News That’s Fit to Sell: notes on mass media business models from the 2003 book by James T. Hamilton
• The half life of facts
• Craft in the Real World: advice on writing and workshop from Matthew Salesses
• Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
• Why do people believe such strange things?
• NeuroTribes: autism and neurodiversity
• VC: An American History
• The Anthropocene Reviewed
• Capitalism & Freedom
• The Journalist the Murderer
• The Greatest Invention: notes on language and writing
• The Value of Everything
• The Culture of New Capitalism
• The Age of AI
• J.C.R. Licklider and his Dream Machine of personal computing
• Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
• Lenape Country before William Penn
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
• Write more effective resolutions
• My 2022 resolutions
• My 2021 review
• Imagine a kind of Community Criticism Readiness Index
• I bought my daughter an NFT
• A Brief History of Time: Stephen Hawking’s 1988 classic theoretical physics book
• Yeah, I chipped into a decentralized effort to buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution
• How to make a great checklist
• Spaces between words weren’t common until the 7th century
• Works Rules! Google research and data on running more effective companies from the 2015 book
• Some whiskey stories
• How to be happy
• Is that a Fish in Your Ear? notes on the 2011 book by David Bellos on translation
• Nonprofit news models are important. We need others too
• The Happiness Equation
• What if journalism wasn’t only produced by news organizations?
• “The Fifth Season” by NK Jemisin
• Here’s a list of Pennsylvania whiskey distilleries (and a few stories too)
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Homo Deus: notes on Yuval Noah Harrari 2017 book
• My environmental impact
• Notes from the 2016 book ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth’ by Robert Gordon
• Personal finance is a social justice issue
• Notes on Malcolm Gladwell’s 2000 classic ‘Tipping Point’
• The strength of weak ties
• Marking 10 years of the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Daily blog
• Notes from the classic 2001 business book “Good to Great”
• One year later, here are my first small pieces of advice for new parents
• A respite from Philly Tech Week kickoff rainouts
• Notes on “Revolutionary Networks: the Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789”
• Resist flattening your neighbor
• The “Elements of Journalism”
• What is newsroom objectivity?
• Notes from Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Talking to Strangers’
• Hold firm your beliefs, let your opinions change
• Newsroom objectivity and “moral clarity” are not in opposition
• Will the world be a better place to live in the future?
• A few quick personal finance lessons from Morgan Housel’s ‘Psychology of Money’
• Newsrooms should have and defend their ‘basic beliefs,’ not the tactics to get there
• What is my news, media or content business worth?
• Notes on ‘Stuff of Thought’ by Steven Pinker
• Either you ride the horse or the horse rides you
• I believe Donald Trump should be impeached
• My resolutions for 2021
• My 2020 Review
• Actual conversations I had in 2020
• White authors writing non-white characters
• How to live into your 90s
• Newspapers were once the big tech platform companies everyone hated
• My first political endorsement
• A few notes from my conversation with Guy Raz of ‘How I Built This’
• “I want to be the best in the world at something.”
• News organizations: how do you get throughout feedback from your community?
• “Ability to deliver for clients” can’t be anathema for news organizations
• Three emerging approaches to local journalism
• There was a crowd of us, now we are almost none
• When ordinary fear is enough
• Civility is complicity
• White Silence is Violence: a self-audit on doing the work
• Kim Crayton on Antiracism
• Don’t Blame the Hammer
• Notes from Scene on Radio’s ‘Seeing White’ in 2017
• Baby
• Advice for journalists graduating into a recession
• What does work productivity look like during a pandemic?
• Journalists as a ‘community directory of last resort’
• How to contribute to your community during covid-19
• Sometimes you have to go backward
• More notes on what I’ve learned about writing
• Thoughts on tax status and journalism
• Focus on longterm saving during recessions
• Technically Media honored for a commitment to diversity
• Opportunity costs: think of the big but not the small
• Notes on ‘The Invention of News’ by Andrew Pettegree
• My 2020 Resolutions
• My 2019 Review
• What I did with my two-year term on Philly Startup Leaders
• More Americans are coal miners than local journalists
• Local and national media: once no difference, and now the central difference of newsrooms
• Media Funders: Value the difference between Creation and Distribution
• I was given the ‘Community Leadership Award’ by the Urban Affairs Coalition
• Try a ‘Laser Day Weekend’ for dropping projects
• Klein News Innovation Camp keynote interview with Michael Smerconish
• Ways I combat my amassing lots of unused clothing
• Why we launched ADVANCE, a conference on smarter impact for nonprofit professionals
• Journalism Thinking: a lightning talk at Ignite Philly
• We lose focus slowly
• Here’s what I’d do to ensure local journalism exists 20 years from now
• Predicting the future isn’t as hard as predicting when that future will come
• What question is your work answering?
• Listen to my interview on the Ideas Elevated podcast
• Real Life Local News Revenue Experiments: ONA19 session
• ‘Journalism Thinking’ doesn’t need a business model. It needs a call to arms
• Stop Lying About Your Employer Brand: Disrupt HR NYC
• Find the people who give you more energy than take
• Here are a bunch of rules to live by from other people I love
• Authenticity is having no other choice
• A few things I’ve learned and love about whiskey
• The importance of journalism’s double-sided marketplace
• Note on “Reporting the Revolutionary War” from 2012 by Todd Andrlik
• Little ways an organizational leader can show her team she cares about them as people
• Notes from reading ‘Sapiens,’ a brief history of humankind
• To get only the ‘right’ words on paper, that’s the struggle: Janet Benton
• Lifetime Learning: listen to my IT Works commencement address
• 3 simple ideas for thriving in an open office
• The difference between developmental editing and copyediting
• Lessons I learned from my mother 
• I moderated the keynote roundtable discussion at Campus Philly’s Annual Meeting
• Here are 5 trends in ‘startup clusters’ I discussed in a lecture at Jefferson Innovation
• Start with the doing. Then get to the done
• A few quotes I read recently that are stuck in my mind
• Notes from Sal Paolantonio’s landmark 1993 biography of Frank Rizzo
• Peru
• I changed a lot at my company. Here’s why beating a big Q1 revenue goal meant so much
• My relationship to alcohol
• Listen to my Founding Failures story
• The difference between reporting about policy and politics
• To be great, you must know how to change speed
• How we speak signals education. But it is not the same thing as education: Robert Lane Greene
• How to fund small projects as a CEO
• Nobody wants to follow someone who made General in Peacetime: notes from Tribes by Seth Godin
• Buy local; support independent artists
• Apparently I have a lot of opinions about what cup you should use for your drink
• Our ‘tranquilizing drug of gradualism’
• Punctuation today: notes from the 2006 bestseller “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”
• Notes from ‘The Hard Thing About Hard Things’ by Ben Horowitz
• How to show growth for employees at a small organization
• A thank you to my coworkers ahead of Technical.ly’s 10th anniversary
• Your retirement savings goal to strive for should mean you never dip into principal
• A look at the $23 billion Search and Placement industry
• What are you working toward?
• Lessons on “The Messy Middle” of business from Scott Belsky
• My 2019 Resolutions
• My 2018 Review
• Lessons on building an industry-specific community
• How I’ve improved my diet and eating habits
• Art tells us we are important. Science reminds us we are not
• 7 tips on writing from a collection of essays from the Oxford American
• Language is more like fashion than math: “Words on the Move” by John McWhorter
• Why English actually is relatively easy to learn (but not to master)
• This is a better question for getting perspective to make a decision
• Do you know when humans first developed language?
• Listen to my interview on “Philly Pod Who”
• My 12 Rules to Live By
• The Americas were more populated than Europe at the time of first contact
• Technical.ly on “The Business of Content”
• What we know from 150,000 years of human language
• Who is the ‘first money in’ on you?
• Watch this kind video profile of me from the Uncommon Individual Foundation
• 01:10: Hip Hop Icon T.I.
• 01:09: Daily Show Correspondent Dulcé Sloan
• 01:08: Singer-Songwriter John Elliott
• 01:07: Poet Danez Smith
• 01:06: Memoirist Lori Tharps
• Was today a good day? Did you get closer to being the person you want to be?
• 01:05: YA Author Blair Thornburgh
• 01:04 Comedian Todd Glass
• 01:03 Rapper Chill Moody
• 01:02 Novelist Zinzi Clemmons
• Leadership is something you do before you have a title
• 01:01: USA Today Journalist Jess Estepa
• Introducing The Writing Process: my new weekly podcast
• On a long drive? What’s one good new idea you can develop on the road
• Do not save writing for later, more will come: ‘The Writing Life’ by Annie Dillard
• What employee counts should mean to reporters
• Here’s the reading list from my resolution to only read books from women and writers of color
• Hey fellow white guys, we’re responsible for increasing board diversity and inclusion
• Economics terms that help me understand the world
• What a kid should graduate high school knowing
• Build the habit of making habits: resolutions of mine that stuck
• Privilege has nothing to do with how hard you work
• Notes on empathetic leadership
• Employer Branding is central to your passive jobseeker strategy
• On Spark Files
• Don’t try to be Silicon Valley: a SXSW panel
• 9 examples of substance from nine years of Technically Media
• Why is Technically Media not a nonprofit?
• Don’t be the ‘idea guy’
• You’re going to get criticized. Learn when to listen.
• Reporting on something wonky? Where are the people stories
• Don’t wait for things you think you deserve
• Notes on local news membership
• Morocco
• It’s hard to hate up close
• There’s no such thing as a safe investment worth making: ‘Personal Finance Day’ notes
• My 2018 Resolutions
• Goodbye to 2017
• 5 best read posts I published here in 2017
• Consider a tax credit for employed journalists
• What is your passive jobseeker hiring strategy? [DisruptHR]
• Wow, I’ve been writing here for 10 years. Here’s what I’ve learned
• 3 questions you should ask when you’re looking at new data for the first time
• Here are a few things I told a Young Professionals Council
• Journalism is a set of values, not an industry of competitors
• I helped organize Code for America’s inaugural national Brigade Congress
• Read this interview with me for Delaware Innovation Week
• In defense of friction (Or, yes, I think business cards still make sense)
• Journalists: what do you love first, the Reporting or the Writing
• Watch my appearance on the 2Techies podcast
• Great beat reporting results in you negotiating when to break news you already have
• Watch my interview on ‘The Blind Entrepreneur’ podcast
• A few notes on the 6th annual Baltimore Innovation Week
• Notes on reporting a challenging community journalism profile
• Read my piece in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
• Media is a mirror: what you see says more about you than you want to admit
• Beat reporters: here are some tips for interviewing efficiently and effectively
• I was proud of the 7th annual Philly Geek Awards
• Listen to my interview on the ‘From Founder to CEO’ podcast
• We hired lots of sales managers until we kept one: here’s what I learned
• What I learned hosting a weekly podcast for six months
• Full audio from my interview of Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney during Philly Tech Week
• Here are a bunch of ways Technically Media has taken a political stand
• It’s OK to know what you want
• Here are a bunch of ways to build a personal network with less time
• Mission and money should mix so impact can thrive
• Growing Greater Philadelphia: I was on this NBC 10 documentary series
• Journalism is the process of helping a community near its truth
• Why it took 8 years for me to become CEO of my own company
• By the time something *has* to be solved, it’s probably too late
• Ira Glass: We are fans first, and that’s why we won’t let ourselves create
• Newsrooms: be Accurate, Relevant and Productive
• 4 lessons from sports stars that stuck with me as a kid
• I spoke at the 16th annual New Market Tax Credits conference
• How to publish breaking news as a community journalist
• You’re adopting a puppy
• I am motivated by fear
• Reporters, we aren’t referees, we are in the game: thoughts on ‘Fake News’
• Watch this video interview I did on entreprenuership
• I interviewed Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf during Philly Tech Week 2017
• This is why you’re not going to create the next SXSW
• Don’t mix up censorship with civility
• +1
• What can you be blamed for?
• What I learned at our second annual ‘Personal Finance Day’
• Founders need to find moments to not show up
• Technical.ly cited in ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’
• New Sincerity is the answer to snarky post-modern web culture
• Stop using facts in your arguments
• Atlanta Tomorrow Tour dinner series takeaways
• Why the 20th century had such celebrated local journalism
• What I accomplished as a Pen and Pencil Club governor 
• Getting married? here’s some advice on handling joint finances
• People you disagree with and people you dislike are two different groups
• With $1.67M in 2016 income, here’s what I learned with Technically Media
• All war begins with a premise of ‘better than’
• Subscribe to my new weekly Story Shuffle podcast project
• Reporters: how to handle correction requests from sources
• I use these 8 web tools more than any others at work
• Technically Media moved into new headquarters: here are some lessons
• This will be my first year of saying no
• What I accomplished professionally in 2016
• Reporters, here’s a strategy for handling your email
• My 2017 Resolutions
• I turned 30 and fell out of shape. Here’s what I did about it
• Folio magazine called me among the country’s 100 most important media leaders
• Here are some things I’ve learned about being a better writer
• What I’ve learned about letting go teammates
• 3 trends I learned this year that totally shook my understanding of the American economy
• “I want a thousand 100-person companies”: a few notes on my part of a profile on Curalate CEO Apu Gupta
• Listen to my interview on the MediaShift Podcast with Mark Glaser
• What I learned at the Online News Association 2016 national conference
• The speed of government (and other institutions) is a feature not a bug
• Here’s a snapshot census of reporters, editors and other news org full-timers in Philadelphia
• Recap of Barcamp News Innovation 2016
• In defense of “Off the Record” and back room conversations
• How to officiate your friend’s wedding
• Be a leader, not a founder
• Journalism is a strategy, not an industry
• Acts of journalism that aren’t written articles
• What I’ve learned hosting travelers with Airbnb for a year 
• Listen to my recording at the 4th annual Philadelphia Podcast Festival
• I donated to a political campaign for the first time in my life
• What I learned from publishing a local news newsletter for 18 months
• On carrying on
• Beat reporters: stop hanging out with other journalists and spend more time with your community
• Here’s the data to put our country’s startup frenzy into context
• A list of one thing I learned each day of June 2016
• Don’t be a big timer
• Watch my interview from My New Philly
• Listen to this small business podcast interview with me
• This Knight Foundation report on Philly media skips us. Here’s why
• Here are some of my favorite historic photos of Philadelphia
• I am a white Airbnb host. I reviewed 102 guest requests to assess my own racial bias
• I’m going to try publishing a curated monthly newsletter: join it
• How I described what I do for a living to a classroom of first graders
• Better, not more for metrics of the future
• What made me proud about our sixth annual Philly Tech Week
• How to be a beat reporter today
• Watch me tell the story of the first time I went hitchhiking
• Some friendly advice on moderating panel discussions
• Cybersecurity is about to get a whole lot bigger
• National Novel Writers Month #NaNoWriMo advice
• A few things I learned at a ‘Personal Finance Day’
• Don’t say your city is the next Silicon Valley of anything
• I had 3 terrible customer service experiences in the last six months. Here’s why they were different
• I made 143 email connections in the last three years
• I bought a car. Here’s what I did wrong.
• 30×30: 30 things I’m proud I did before I turned 30
• We beat $1M in revenue in 2015; small, growing and proud
• On starting to drink coffee
• My proudest professional outcomes of 2015
• Religion as tradition, not rule
• I gave 2% of my 2015 salary to nonprofits with missions I support
• Here’s the audio from my on-stage interview of Philadelphia Mayor Elect Jim Kenney
• Surprises from our inaugural Delaware Innovation Week
• What happens to old customers when your prices go up
• Generalists and specialists: when to hire for habits and when not to
• Life after a liberal arts degree: my contribution to my alma mater’s marketing
• The news business is the only where the CEO isn’t meant to control controversy
• Innovation in Philadelphia Q&A with Dilworth Paxon CEO Ajay Raju and me
• One professor’s attempt at a $25 programmable robot: my profile of Locorobos and Pramod Abichandani
• Technically Media will be establishing new headquarters
• A few leadership lessons I was reminded of during an afternoon with Outward Bound
• I got married. Here’s a bunch of data on the experience.
• 7 events our news organization held for Baltimore Innovation Week #BIW15
• Stop worrying about having too many people at your event
• How Open Source is Changing the World: my keynote speech at FOSSCON
• Listen to this panel I moderated on encouraging diversity in IT fields
• A few thoughts on editing young reporters for community news
• This column about Technical.ly was spiked by the Philadelphia Business Journal
• Prioritize your mission, not your method
• Notes on putting the Technical.ly podcast on hiatus
• Innovation is taking a risk on a new approach for an old challenge
• @TechnicallyPHL named one of 25 Temple Twitter accounts to follow
• Great leaders sit in the audience
• Temple University’s Fox School honored me with the ‘Self Made and Making Others’ award
• I talked about leading Technical.ly on a leadership podcast
• I’ve joined the board of Coded by Kids
• Temple University’s Business Law Magazine interviews me
• What you can learn from the calendar of our fifth annual Philly Tech Week
• A few additions to Philadelphia magazine’s profile of Technical.ly
• Choose a time, not a place to live: my piece for our live Technical.ly podcast
• Horse tales
• Why I’ve (slowly and modestly) paid more attention to fashion for professional gain
• ‘Five for Friday’: Christopher Wink
• Entrepreneurs often start early: here are 5 of my own examples
• Listen to me on the NewsUp podcast
• Snowpocalypse: here’s a flowchart on whether you can park your car
• Qatar: everything I learned while visiting the wealthiest country in the world
• Leadership Philadelphia called me one of 55 young ‘keepers’
• Some professional accomplishments of mine in 2014
• A conversation on building a maker community: Philacentrics
• Al Jazeera hackathon imagines the future of news [GigaOm]
• My first internet
• 5 Aljazeera hackathon projects that signal future news innovation
• You can only succeed in building a business if you know what’s success: ‘Like a Boss’
• Smaller cities can build ‘innovation corridors’: my remarks at Tech2Gether
• Beyond Recruiting: I edited and published my first ebook for Technical.ly
• Named ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ by the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
• Don’t build a company for 60 days. Try 60 years: SAP CEO Bill McDermott
• Digital Innovation in Marketing: advising a new online masters program from Temple University
• Every entrepreneur should be building a monopoly: Peter Thiel
• Greece
• Manage Your Day-To-Day: lessons from this 99U book on productivity
• A few notes on hiring for representation
• Gentrification is believing you are ‘Year Zero’: 100% Philadelphia at FringeArts
• Obamacare more than doubled my company’s healthcare costs: here’s what we did
• Wilmington, Del. needs to develop its innovation corridor [Op-Ed]
• What I’ve learned about running a regular professional meetup as a hobby
• Linking methodology at legacy media online for competitor scoop: Example
• I sold my 2000 Toyota Camry LE for $1,800, here’s what I did right and wrong
• How ‘innovation hubs’ are changing communities: My #RAIN14 keynote
• 5 reminders for every local news startup, with a focus on Philly’s ‘Billy Penn’ from Jim Brady
• 10 years after graduating, here are some high school stories I hope to always remember
• What the Committee of Seventy should teach other nonprofits about publishing
• Thoughts and data on proposing to get married and then sharing online
• Ideas are easy, execution is hard
• 5 ways the world will change in five years: Non-Obvious Dinner
• Founders aren’t scalable
• The difference between a beat reporter and a features writer
• I don’t believe the estimates for how many people attended your event
• Art with tradition is objective, that without one is subjective
• What the social impact of technology should be: my essay in the ‘Asteroid Belt Almanac’
• “Having a Plan B can muddy up your Plan A”: Charlie Day
• How print will remain relevant: the solution is in the problem
• My testimony to Philadelphia City Council on tech business growth
• I put people first, then technology: Biz Stone
• Facebook anonymous login [my KYW interview]
• NEast Philly: everything I learned by working on this now-closed hyperlocal news site
• Journalism isn’t what we should try to save: Philly example
• Technical.ly Brooklyn profile video from Alleywire
• 15 things Ice T said during an insightful speech at an MIT event I also spoke at
• How to do a simple lottery: randomizing entries for a contest
• “How Philly Tech Week Became an Institution” Philadelphia magazine
• Philly Tech Week: 5 events I’m most proud of happening
• “How it became cool to be a geek” Inquirer quote
• Makers, density and the rise of the rest: tech in 2014
• How Spring Street could thrive: survival for small towns in a new urban age
• Here’s the final math on my middle class $100k college education
• To pitch a reporter, there’s an invisible point threshold you need to cross
• 9 real ways I use social media to report that won’t bore you
• Understand the difference between climate and weather
• Pen and Pencil Club board of governors
• 10 Technically projects that never went anywhere
• Online, you’re always writing [Head & the Hand guest post]
• The end of my couchsurfing days
• Journalism DNA: Is Technical.ly a journalism outlet?
• Here’s what I accomplished professionally in 2013
• We need to deploy ‘Acts of Journalism’
• In defense of perceived negativism in good community reporting
• Don’t take that next photo you plan to
• How civic engagement is changing in Philadelphia
• Would the coup d’etat of the future originate with an IT leader rather than a military one?
• Online News Association takeaways from other Philly attendees
• Civic hacking helps us understand bigger social problems
• 3 themes of the Millennial generation
• How many ‘civic-minded’ residents do you really have?
• What you need to know to work at a startup
• Geek’s Guide to Dating: I was in a playful romance self-help guide web series
• A note of thanks to all the editors of the world
• This is the most accessible moment in history
• Google for Media tips
• Innovative News Storytelling: 5 ways and dozens of examples
• 5 things I told Google about innovative local reporting online
• Design elements you should steal from our Technical.ly redesign
• Guide to Being a Man [Business Insider list]
• My experience taking the 10-month LEADERSHIP Philadelphia core class
• Phone Bloks: reduce electronic waste by making hardware more adaptable
• Baltimore City Council’s first hearing on innovation economy; our role in it
• I profiled Kensington Blues photographer Jeff Stockbridge
• Four years later, launching new WordPress theme
• 5 transit ideas I want all cities to embrace
• Rules of online reporting
• Porn star as reporter
• My 10,000th day alive is a reminder to make excuses for elaborate festivities
• Lifehacks for living in Philly (and probably other cities too)
• Philly Geek Awards 2013 presenting [VIDEO]
• Are you experimenting, focusing or executing?
• Best of Philly and Best of Baltimore honoree: Technical.ly
• The Path Between the Seas: how the Panama Canal was constructed
• Experiments are hard to transition: a Philly public media example
• What if we instituted *maximum* ages for legislative office?
• Panama
• First thoughts on Axis Philly next steps: journalism collab CEO leaves
• Why I think this parklet is misguided and other thoughts on parking
• The web is so powerful to create niche communities:
• Why must I pick a side in the trial of George Zimmerman?
• Two reasons why getting your first female/black/Hispanic/Catholic/Jewish/etc. leader matters
• Judge your social media identity by whether you’d want to hang with yourself at a bar [Knight event]
• Jury Duty
• Radiator Heat: my ‘Rust Belt Rising Almanac’ flash fiction from Head and the Hand Press
• I’m in a digital divide PSA on SEPTA subway trains
• Civic Innovation: my answers to 7 questions I asked this Mayors’ Innovation Summit panel
• Fairhill Square Park Pay it Forward Project
• Why this reporter agreed to be in a digital divide ad campaign
• 5 Instagram photos from Philly Tech Week 2013
• Intern syndrome
• My favorite memes on the internet
• Campaign opposition research is a type of investigative journalism
• Drinks with George Saunders
• Photos, video and social media at events are our newest form of applause
• A Police helicopter ride
• 5 things I told a classroom full of journalism students yesterday
• Attract and retain new young, educated people but keep our cities distinctive [Knight Milennials]
• Categories are themes and tags are topics: WordPress users
• Publishing is no longer the end of the reporting cycle, it is the middle
• Hunting
• New Technically Philly office space
• Philadelphia’s technology distinction: Radio Times appearance [AUDIO]
• Firearm ownership
• ‘Even Cowgirls Get the Blues’: My favorite passages from the 1976 Tom Robbins novel on individuality
• Temple alumni magazine profiles Technically Philly
• 2012 professional milestones
• 2013 Resolutions
• my 5 best trafficked, most interesting and other posts of 2012
• Bathroom remodel
• Work longer < work harder < work smarter
• Social media for nonprofits
• 3 biggest fears about ‘future of journalism’ academia: Post-Industrial Journalism report conversation
• 11 student media startup ideas: Upenn Entrepreneurial Journalism Demo Night
• Reporters: today, your competition isn’t other journalists, it’s the source itself
• Inbox zero: email techniques for more efficient knowledge workers (like reporters) [VIDEO]
• When content partnerships (still) don’t work
• When a group of technologists got together to talk about July 4, 2026
• Jimmy Quinn Memorial Basketball League in Fishtown
• Relationships are currency
• Ghosts Story Shuffle 15: the wind chimes of Philadelphia
• Innovations (and shortcomings) in College Media: notes from latest ONA Philly event
• Technical.ly Philly is a sign of good, says Phillymag
• Why 10 percent unemployment and worse is our future, unless we rethink our economy
• Teacher talent is the biggest challenge to education reform: notes from Ted Hershberg
• 8 ways to make Philadelphia more innovative: Young Involved Philadelphia presentation
• Mark Headd is your new Chief Data Officer: Philadelphia magazine
• Puritan Boston, Quaker Philadelphia: notes on 1979 research from E. Digby Baltzell
• Eight Days in Spain: Running with the Bulls (and more)
• One Percent for Art Ordinance: in Philly, a percentage of all public construction costs must go to art
• “The Sun Also Rises:” my favorite passages from the 1926 Ernest Hemingway classic
• Technically Baltimore and Baltimore Innovation Week: we’ve expanded
• Philly Geek Awards 2012 presenting
• Corporate jargon: a collection and translation of common business slang
• Practical thoughts on the process of having recently hired reporters
• Memories I don’t have photos to remember
• Does your knowledge economy-based city of the future import or export more ideas, culture?
• Niche news site membership model perspective brought back to life from 2009
• Either build the news site for the mission or build the mission for the news site
• My first vegetable garden
• What is missing from my formal will
• This is what goes into a functioning news ecosystem
• Why are city assets shared by a region but not problems (and solutions)?
• Journalism is still letting revenue models slip away: my greatest fear for the future of news
• Junto presentation on social entrepreneurship in Philadelphia
• What the suburbs will be 20 years from now
• 5 reasons I bought a house
• Focus and causality: two lingering lessons from Steve Jobs biography
• How to make friends, build connections in Philadelphia (or any city)
• Pen and Pencil Club: I’m a member of the country’s oldest journalism club
• 5 things that Philadelphia tourism groups should do
• ‘What if Northeast Philadelphia seceded from the city?:’ Philos Adelphos Irrealis submission
• News coworking in Philadelphia: Knight News Challenge app on the future newsroom
• How the web continues to shape campus life: Temple Review
• Online News Association national conference should come to Philadelphia: here are 10 reasons why
• Hosting free events: why charging a small sum can add more value
• Facial detection can be blocked by changing the spatial relationship of your features: notes on event with artist Adam Harvey
• Philly Tech Week presented by AT&T: the second annual celebration of innovation
• Ph.ly: the Philly URL shortener and weekly email that will make you a better Philadelphian
• To develop a community, you first need a common set of facts
• Philly Weekly cover story on Technically Media, Philly Tech Week and our roots
• Connect Philly: tool to locate free wireless hotspots in Philadelphia launched by Technically Philly
• 7 projects I started before Technically Media and why they failed
• How I first fell in love with information before I knew what the Internet was
• Philadelphia should own social entrepreneurship: presentation for Knight Foundation, others
• How to get a reporter to care about your business: a Lean Startup presenation
• NEast Philly: traffic, data and graphs on a hyperlocal news site
• SEO: the difference between the basics, the detailed and spam
• Baseball cards: 10 business lessons from my time in the sports memorabilla bubble
• Story Shuffle 11 SCARS audio is now live
• First 100 days as CEO of the Philadelphia Public Interest Information Network: advice for Neil Budde
• A reporter is only as good as his sources (are organized)
• 15 things I learned three years after launching Technically Philly
• Philadelphia Museum of Art: thoughts on making the Parkway temple to impressionism more accomodating and more relevant
• MinnPost CEO Joel Kramer: notes on dinner with the founder of the profitable news nonprofit
• Neil Budde named founding CEO of Philadelphia Public Interest Information Network [Press Release]
• Notes on bold change for the Philadelphia Media Network, regardless of who the owners are, and why it won’t happen
• There are no good U.S. presidents, just good times to be president
• Quirky Tumblr accounts I wish were active
• Social entrepreneurship should be Philadelphia’s regional distinction: my Pecha Kucha presentation
• Eric Smith of Geekadelphia says very nice things about me after I made fun of his work publicly [Video]
• Our Founding Fathers would have loved social media but questioned its future
• Local TV news is more entertainment than journalism and other notes from NBC 10 ONA Philadelphia Showcase [VIDEO]
• Philadelphia Evening Bulletin history: ‘Nearly Everybody Read It,’ a 1998 book from Peter Binzen
• A Brief Timeline of the History of Daily Newspapers in Philadelphia
• 5 ideas for hackathon projects
• I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: a Social Network Constitution and concerns around privacy
• Balancing legacy and money in professional sports has lessons for the rest of us
• What would the Founding Fathers think of Facebook?: I’m moderating a panel at the National Constitution Center on privacy and the social web
• Why politicians cheat: five reasons that should leave us unsurprised by campaign affairs
• How the sources for story ideas change for a niche news site through three years
• My personal 2012 Resolutions
• My 2012 professional resolutions with a focus on RISK; review 2011 goals
• My 10 best trafficked posts of 2011 (and some others that I think are pretty good)
• Four Temperaments of Parenthood: Story Shuffle 10 audio
• Social entrepreneurship: how Philadelphia could have a regional distinction for startups
• Whitetown USA: 1968 book on the ‘silent majority’ of poor urban whites by Peter Binzen
• Prediction: my children will care less about technology than I do
• Urban imperialism: lessons from city boosterism of the 19th century for urban renewal today
• When you buy something, you are voting for its existence
• Choosing local impact or broader scale
• Is your news organization a fire hose or a block party?
• iPhone: my first personal smartphone and the first 15 predictable free apps I downloaded
• How foundation funding could be protecting a journalism pay bubble
• OpenDataRace: talking on WHYY NewsWorks Tonight about the OpenDataPhilly.org contest
• Jealousy can motivate you to achieve success: Story Shuffle 9 (Jealousy)
• 21 things membership-driven design resource Fab.com learned in its first year
• Boardwalk Empire: five lessons to learn from season one of the hit HBO drama
• Philly Tech Week April 22-28, 2012: seeking anchor organizers and sponsors for second annual festival
• Philly Daily News List of ‘Rising Power Players’ under 40; I’m on it
• Beware ‘filter bubbles’ online: TED talk from Eli Pariser
• American Association of Museums honored our work with a bronze award
• Macbook Pro: why this general consumer went the Apple route
• Quotable on WHYY: Temple University apps and maps studio funding could lead to ‘connective tissue’ of product pipeline
• Steve Jobs: ‘I don’t want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers’ [VIDEO]
• Still Life with Woodpecker: my favorite passages from the Tom Robbins 1980 ‘post modern fairy tale’
• Will jobs ever come back?: maybe there is an answer to the employment bomb
• Success in service industry: Retainers, recommendations and referrals
• Five things I learned about Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter watching his NBC 10 ‘Ask the Mayor’ program [VIDEO]
• ONA 2011: conferences are good for more than just their sessions [VIDEO]
• Shark Tank: 25 things I learned from watching the startup pitch reality TV show
• NBC 10 Philadelphia lists me among 20 locals to follow on Twitter
• Temple University’s neighborhood scholarships should go to kids, not undergrads
• Should your business use an independent contractor or hire a full-time employee?
• ONA Philly September: NewsWorks from WHYY one year after launching [VIDEO]
• #wjchat: curating Business of Journalism discussion on popular journalists Twitter discussion
• Open city data in Philadelphia: the obstacles and triumphs of the L&I example
• How 9/11 helped shape New York City for the better
• New Media Unplugged: Technically Philly hosts indie publishers event with 215mag.com as part of #UncappedLive series
• Local media should be more local on first reference, says Philadelphia man
• New York City is not representative of the United States: a letter to national media
• Technically Media team head shots by Colin M. Lenton Photography
• You have to be far enough away to be seen: Story Shuffle 8 (Anniversaries)
• Glengarry Glen Ross: 10 sales lessons from the 1992 cult classic movie
• The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio: were mathematics invented or discovered?
• ONA Philly: the revival of the Online News Association in Philadelphia
• Philly Geek Awards: one award, three nominations and a dozen ideas for next year
• Five things that should be in your organization style guide
• Why Philadelphia should embrace its accent
• Freddy Adams Tournament [VIDEO]
• JLab Enterprise Reporting Fund: Abandoned City and Broadband2035
• White House Urban Entrepreneurship Forum: speaking on public-private partnerships
• Selling Out: why some acquisitions are good and others are bad for Philadelphia business
• Temple Review: why big companies still lead innovation and how that’s changing
• Clay Shirky: “News has to be subsidized, and it has to be cheap, and it has to be free”
• District 172: John Perzel coverage for NEast Philly, funded by JLab
• Whitewater Rafting in Colorado [VIDEO]
• Utah and Colorado back country hiking road trip
• News Frontier Database from Columbia Journalism Review: Technically Philly and NEast Philly included
• Tweroid: When is the best time to be tweeting?
• Steps to incorporate a business in Philadelphia (or elsewhere)
• Technically Philly team photos by Neal Santos
• Ten Twitter basics you should steal from my social media strategy work
• Broetry Poetry Slam: ‘Portrait of a Bro’ in Spoken Word [VIDEO]
• NBC Philadelphia ‘Request for Proposals Cooperative Arrangement with Non-Profit Local News Organization’
• Knight Foundation funds Philadelphia Media Network ‘digital media incubator:’ thoughts
• Don’t try to sell for the first year but have a plan for what you’re doing to sell
• Make your Facebook page better
• Ireland
• How to migrate a WordPress.com blog to your own WordPress hosting
• History Channel: America, The Story of Us
• “Understand what business you’re really in. That’s what benefit you provide customers. Not what product.”
• FCC report: local accountability journalism is lacking, impact small when present
• Aspen Institute Roundtable on Local Journalism and the Public Square
• Hitchhiking in South Dakota: Story Shuffle 7 audio is now live
• Talkadelphia: talking to podcast about Technically Philly, Philly Tech Week, business
• Knight Commission Report on Informing Communities: crib notes on the seminal 2009 project
• Fahrenheit 451: my favorite passages from Ray Bradbury’s classic
• News needs to make more money on the popcorn
• NewsWorks Tonight: talking OpenDataPhilly.org, SEPTA’s TransitView and OPA Data Liberator
• Philly Geek Awards: nominated by Geekadelphia for Philly Tech Week, Story Shuffle, Constitution Daily
• Art and Technology: moderating City of Philadelphia Creative Economy panel
• Random Hacks of Kindness Philadelphia: organizing, judging hackathon
• Fifteen businesses Philadelphia should poach from the suburbs and how they might
• How to choose a credit card for my small business
• “Being a reporter is only lately a respectable occupation:” Calvin Trillin
• Can you be a star in Philadelphia?
• Three ways one social network takes market share from another
• Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk: take aways and thoughts
• Penny Lane
• Gentrification: thoughts from seven years as student and young professional in Philadelphia
• WHYY: NewsWorks and other thoughts on what the public media org should be
• Three most important numbers to Philadelphians right now
• Technologies are more often tools than solutions (and no, that’s not the same)
• What the Philadelphia Public Interest Information Network should be
• So I guess Philly.com is going to launch a South Philly hyperlocal site
• What Philly.com should be: a comprehensive, collaborative and open source for all news in Philadelphia
• Do news orgs have a responsibility for action?: Notes from BarCamp NewsInnovation 2011
• How to dissolve a partnership and what to do next
• Rejection takes you further than success: why getting rejected a lot brought me here
• Philly Tech Week Signature event: video of my address and take aways
• Philly Tech Week: the inaugual roundup of coverage, lessons and highlights
• Osama bin Laden: 10 most interesting tweets around his alleged death
• The Night of the Gun by David Carr: three lessons from reading this ‘junkie memoirs’
• Lessons in civic pride: Story Shuffle 6 audio is now live
• OpenDataPhilly.org unveiling, what it means, how it happened
• Kicking off Philly Tech Week, April 25-30, 2011
• Why this truancy ad sucks and what I think would be better
• Couchsurfing in St. Louis
• Hardly Strictly Young roundtable: alternative Knight Commission recommendations
• Five criteria for the flourishing of news entities of the future
• Homelessness in Philadelphia: what I learned working for a social services startup for a year
• Philly Tech Week Not Just for Geeks: Flying Kite profile
• Technically Philly article referenced in Philly Police Dept. budget hearing
• 25 things I learned from the best newspapermen (and women) around
• My remarks to Philadelphia City Council after resolution names April 25-30, 2011 as Philly Tech Week
• Sustaining the craft, not developing the craft itself, should be focus of Knight and RJI
• Technically Media meeting style: effective, productive and professional from home
• Technically Philly April Fools’ Day 2011: the stories we ran and those we didn’t
• Quotable: GSI Commerce exit for WHYY and design challenge for Temple Times
• My first police ride along
• 9 YouTube videos that changed my perspective on the world and the lessons I learned
• Three proposed ONA 2011 panels
• 15 best Back on My Feet videos we made in a year
• Faint Praise: Alex Hillman, Karl Martino encourage folks to read here
• Why print will last so much longer than you think it will (hint: we can feel it)
• Reading: Improving Sales, The Excuse Department is Closed
• Serendipity is alive: where I get my news in 2011
• “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it:” Simon Sinek
• NewsWorks MindMap: sharing my interests with WHYY
• Philadelphia media ecosystem: a profile by Net News Check with a nod to Technically Philly
• My Life To Do List got a face life; you really might not care and that’s OK
• Eleven lessons that shaped how I live my life
• Love is so much more about the technique than the ingredients and other Story Shuffle 5.0 audio
• If a topic is boring, then go into more detail: like with spaghetti sauce
• Exit Interview series on Technically Philly
• What open data we care about: moderating Code for America Digital Philadelphia event
• Whiskey Chats: Technically Media talks with Jim Brady
• Sunlight Foundation shares Transparencity open data project
• Grow audience and revenue: two ways to increase the number of news sources
• How do I reach out to bloggers and reporters for coverage?: advice from experience
• Tokyo: Archived Podcasting and Blogging from Junior Year Abroad with NBC
• Cancel your meetings: TEDx Midwest talk on on workplace management from Jason Fried
• Lead with that iron fist
• Technically Media office space, or why I have a flask on my desk
• Wing Bowl 19: ‘This would only work in Philadelphia,’ says porn legend Ron Jeremey
• What is Editorial Strategy: Definitions for Content Strategy and more
• Phillymag coverage of William Penn Foundation taking on News Inkubator concept
• Transparencity: Leading a Technically Philly open data grant project
• Why did you become a journalist?
• Philadelphia Productions kickoff party
• Philly Tech Week: introducing event series growing innovation impact
• How do I choose a payroll services company for my business
• Why Journalism should be like the catering business
• Universities should host the newsrooms of their neighborhoods
• Technically Media: working full-time for myself
• Philadelphia Republican Party: a new home for my senior thesis
• Constitution Daily: the best of the National Constitution Center blog
• Overwhelmed or underwhelmed: you’re probably going to be one, so choose
• How to be a freelance journalist: real advice from another young, unknown journalist on freelancing
• Focus: my goal for 2011; Growth: my experience in 2010
• Mummers Parade 2011: Reflections on marshalling with Hegeman String Band
• My 10 Most trafficked posts of 2010
• Technically Media Inc.: introducing a media services consultancy
• My 2011 Professional Resolutions
• Personal 2011 Resolutions
• Rosemary Feal, Modern Language Association, Metro Q&A: Stories that never ran
• Story Shuffle 4: SNOW audio is live
• The exotic nature of local: or why generic foreign gifts suck
• William Penn Foundation three-year $2.4 million investment in Philly journalism
• Foundations should require public art displays, rehearsals and performances
• The word ‘peace’ was last published more than the word ‘war’ in 1743, shows Google Books
• Business Insider mention of Technically Philly
• If I had unlimited money to invest in growing Philadelphia journalism
• Examiner.com interview on work with Technically Philly
• Telling stories with authenticity and complexity: or why Unstoppable sucked
• Five interesting lessons from Jay-Z interview with Terry Gross
• Back on My Feet presence online ten months later
• Cobblestone: a WordPress-plugin and local Crunchbase Knight application
• Lessons on creating an effective nonprofit newsletter
• Christmas 2010 Decorations
• News roundups: own your niche, learn and link when starting any content creation
• Someone else is doing a better job of tracking community news sites
• Newsworks: WHYY online news brand launching means a lot to these legacies
• What the Knight News Challenge could learn from ABC’s ‘Shark Tank’
• Leaving Back on My Feet as Media Director: what I’ve done in a year
• ‘Net neutrality’ future is about authority: Speaking at Philly NetSquared
• Digital camera: choosing a multimedia device for a nonprofit content creator
• How to draft a media kit: lessons from Technically Philly
• Patch is about as evil as Starbucks (and that’s less than you might want to believe)
• Rally for Sanity from Jon Stewart was long in ideas but maybe short in practice
• Online News Association conference 2010: OK, now let’s work together
• Voting information in Philadelphia
• Knight Arts Challenge in Philadelphia: my seven submissions
• Fund My Media J-Lab ONA pre-conference highlights
• Philadelphia Enterprise Reporting Fund awards grants to Technically Philly and NEast Philly
• Ignite Philly: The Power of Working in Threes
• Reading: God’s Pocket by Pete Dexter
• Technically Philly directory launches, more updates to come
• New Yorker profile of Nick Denton dives into online news profit
• Story Shuffle TERROR audio is live
• The Social Network: thoughts and reading on the Facebook movie
• Switch Philly: a roundup after the first major, paid Technically Philly event
• SugarHouse Casino: Thoughts from a gentrifying homeowner in the neighborhood
• Sarah Palin likes Lee Ellen Pisauro
• PhillyChitChat on Tek Lado launch party, posing shamelessly with Geekadelphia crew
• Young Involved Philadelphia State of Young Philly Entrepreneurship panel take aways
• Switch Philly: the startup presentation event from Technically Philly
• ‘Barrel of a Gun’ Mumia Abu Jamal documentary premiere thoughts
• The Wire: yeah, the HBO Baltimore drama is mad decent
• uwishunu blogging
• Philadelphia’s ‘blogger tax’ controversy speaks to state of blogging, future of media
• Stories that never ran: the Philadelphia workplace in five years
• Alaska (backpacking through the Last Frontier)
• ‘Closing Time:’ Joe Queenan’s on growing up poor in East Falls
• Story Shuffle on Authority audio live
• What is the ‘middle class’ and should the phrase be used in journalism?
• Volunteering with Back on My Feet presentation at Refresh Philly
• Businessweek on Henry Blodget: Passages on the future of news sites
• NEast Philly: West Frankford Town Watch profile
• Rodeo: Cowtown Rodeo in Cowtown, New Jersey
• Those are similar ledes: faint praise from the Philly Business Journal
• Nonprofits breaking news about their mission
• Three most relevant, mentioned and impactful Philadelphia columnists write in a niche
• Murder rates in Philadelphia and other cities are all marketing
• What a news story on a boy who wore the most underwear means
• Rework: the best of a business book from the founders of 37signals
• Shooting young black males, a column lost to the recycle bin
• Metro: Seth Williams stumps and Northeast Philadelphia Now
• Jonathan Alter at National Constitution Center, a storyteller with authority
• New York Times on the price of online journalism; broken pieces to return
• Perceptions involved in how we see the livability of U.S. cities
• This has been a bad week
• Seattle: a long-weekend in the Pacific Northwest
• Story Shuffle: introducing a themed, first-person storytelling event
• Final words on the reprisal of the young cop and the student journalist
• U.S. theatrical premiere, Madeleine Albright and what it means for local journalism
• Back on My Feet blog introduction
• Today Show (live on the set of the national morning show)
• Speaking at Build Your Buzz Workshop with Empowerment Group
• The Ultimate Runner: Back on My Feet story I penned is anthologized
• Metro cover on Frankford recovery homes, their content partnerships
• RSS feed back to full and, yes, I added a Facebook Like button
• CoPress Podcast: Speaking about Technically Philly and NewsInkubator
• Twitter is stupid and other lessons in hyperlocal content strategy: NEast Philly at BarCamp NewsInnovation
• Three months of social media growth for nonprofit Back on My Feet
• The Philly Post: City departments that need a Web overhaul
• BarCamp NewsInnovation 2.0: My take aways and experience
• Four Cs of developing communities on the Web
• Broad Street Run 2010
• Philadelphia newspaper auction aftershocks, including Hitler
• Summer 2010 unpaid Content and Media internship at Back on My Feet
• Seamless Workforce: Talking Philadelphia technology trends with Yoh
• Failure is not an option, it’s a necessity: Technically Philly at BarCamp NewsInnovation
• William Penn Foundation details plan for Philadelphia online journalism network
• Fishtown Spirit: Community meeting coverage of soda tax, I-95 and more
• BarCamp NewsInnovation 2: Who I’m hoping to meet
• Inquirer: My first couch surfing experience
• Why mobile matters
• Reading: ‘City of Brotherly Mayhem’ by Ron Avery
• NewsWorks: WHYY will announce new hyperlocal news initiative for northwest Philadelphia
• Gigabit Philly for Google on 900 AM WURD Carole’s Technology Corner
• Technically Philly stories that were picked up by others
• Introducing the 67th ward
• A lesson in branding for startups
• Freelancers: the rules and tricks of deducting your home expenses on your taxes
• Choose your business name on domain availability
• Lessons I’ve learned on writing better ledes
• Reading: ‘Remembering Kensington and Fishtown’ by Ken Milano
• Can you still start a freelancing career?
• The basics of a news story in five bullet points and five minutes
• Faint Praise from Philly Weekly Better than Best issue
• Have a sound byte for your TV news interview
• A high school journalism club curriculum
• WordPress themes I’m itching to use
• Five rules of freelancing I found and didn’t always follow
• The chair that’s reserving your snowy parking spot in Fishtown
• News forms of the future
• My favorite standard Microsoft fonts
• How to set up a freelancing sole proprietorship
• What I learned from working with the Frankford High School journalism club
• Teaching a social media teleconferencing course on basic blogging
• Appearance on 900AM WURD Carole’s Technology Corner
• Social media isn’t evil
• A new job: Media director for nonprofit Back on My Feet
• Fishtown Spirit: A neighborhood photographer wants more neighborhood support
• Ten things a journalist should never do
• Old journalist to young: Pitied, blamed or accused
• I love strikethrough text
• Future of News panel for Sunday Breakfast Club @ Union League
• Stories that never ran: What does a sex columnist look like?
• Technically Philly praise: two years of tweets
• WordPress themes I’ve seen used well
• How to switch from Facebook groups to pages
• Travel writing and why no one wants to hear about your European backpacking
• 2010 House Resolutions
• Reporting for Metro Philadelphia
• Everywhere I am online and why consolidation is still necessary
• Announced proposal for William Penn Foundation hyperlocal investment
• New Jersey: the global epicenter of hyperlocal news
• Welcome to Fishtown
• Personal 2010 Resolutions
• Stories that never ran: ‘Can the Devon Theater survive in Mayfair?’
• Making a budget: how a young freelance journalist might look at the numbers
• Required reading from 2009 for hyperlocal news entrepreneurs
• My best clips of 2009
• My 10 best read posts of 2009
• If 2009 was a slow start, then 2010 needs to be next steps
• News Inkubator: business help for hyperlocal news
• Leaving Frankford
• Hyperlocal news sites worth following
• Metro: Snow reporting, records and such
• Professional Resolutions for 2010
• Content breakdown of a healthy, efficient hyperlocal news site
• Buy a house (the first home of my very own)
• Clay Shirky: ‘a bad thing is going to happen’ to journalism
• Metro: Bicycle rally following hospitalized cyclist and legislation
• ‘Citizen Journalism’ is a phrase just like ‘Horseless carriage,’ and we needed both
• City Paper: Chris Bartlett, Gay History Wiki and preserving a community
• Reflections on CUNY graduate school New Journalism Models Hyperlocal camp
• Temple Review: Profile of lawyer-turned TV producer Lukas Reiter
• Community newspapers: a panel and their use of the Web at PhIJI
• Blogging for Big Kids
• Biden defends hyperaction at Committee of Seventy breakfast
• Metro: Adding human color to a Northeast Philadelphia fire
• Bicycle enforcement campaign launched by Philadelphia police
• Weekly in print, daily online: the new slogan of The Temple News
• Committee of Seventy: Highlights of November 2009 Philadelphia election
• Philly sports music
• Distribution or content: which is king?
• Phillies theme songs: music for Philadelphia baseball
• Take aways from the Future of Local Politics and the Web panel
• Metro: A Yankees fan roaming Center City
• Metro Phillies World Series package: Fans in the wrong city and best bars
• How much I’ve made freelancing in 2009
• Thoughts on Future of News panel at WHYY
• Payment for writers and journalists will continue to fall, positions reduced
• Philadelphia Wedding: Old boyfriends make bad guests
• How some established journalists see the rest of us
• Five reasons I should be professionally scared, but am (usually) not
• Metro: Q&A with “Parking Wars” TV show producers
• Knight News Challenge grant proposals: Technically Philly and NEast Philly
• Metro: Philly Parking Authority hate ahead of “Parking Wars” season three
• Subscribe to this site by e-mail or RSS
• Metro: North Philly teen who duct-taped cat has background of violence
• Hyperlocal news: a definition
• Grid magazine: Dansko, a responsible shoe company
• Online news startup dilemma: we have an industry fighting entrepreneurship
• Making mistakes since 1983: Speaking at Rowan University
• Metro: The death of the American post office
• Audience building with social media: Speaking at the PA Women’s Press Association
• PC users: How to use MS Paint for quick, easy screenshot selections
• Metro: Babette Josephs down on ‘Secure Communities’ initiaitve
• Introducing a new revamped @NEastPhilly: neighborhood news looks good
• Faint praise from Inquirer online editor
• Metro: Temple tuition hike warned over controversy
• Metro: Double-byline front page on wrongful firing
• Metro: Nutter warns of a Doomsday Plan C budget
• I'm buying a house and looking for help
• CityPaper: Million Little Stories on Popporn adult film
• Closing @Domelights: Of course squelching racist police babble is wrong
• Traffic plunges from WordPress.com site to my self-hosted version
• Introducing @MyPICCLine: a patient's account of the healthcare industry
• Introducing @MyPICCLine: a patient’s account of the healthcare industry
• TP Features: Interview with Chamber of Commerce chief
• Brief Fox 29 appearance discussing e-waste
• TP Features: Daniel Delaney of Vendr.TV
• Recent experiences in listening to your customers
• My guest post on studying in Ghana and other personal travel blogs of interest
• A freelancer needs a niche to survive
• ChristopherWink.com: Independently hosted and spruced up
• Three stories from one interview: Kevin Kiene of ezLandlord Forms
• A loose steer makes for a great test of local news coverage
• Six Twitter applications I actually use and recommend for news organizations
• Are Twitter and Facebook slow on monetization for fear of advertising?
• Philadelphia Inquirer John Yoo controversy doesn't seem to be much of a controversy anymore
• Grid magazine: Philadelphia factories are repurposed sustainably
• Technically Philly vies for Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism
• Obituaries: a newspaper staple that should find a way into community news sites
• What if advertising wasn't in a recession, but dying?
• What is a blog and why do so many people hate them?
• Metro: Philadelphia casinos keep eye on prize
• Despite declining traffic, @ArthurKade is a story, what that means for media
• FootPrints Of Life @ Philadelphia Art Museum steps
• CityPaper: Million Little Stories on Shirley Boggs
• Five sales lessons that I don't think Seth Godin meant to give last month
• What links should mean to news media in the future
• Advertising with @TechnicallyPHL and what other Web startups can learn
• How good are your links?
• The state of social networking: what site is the best, the worst, a waste
• The reasons to link and what they say about your Web integrity
• Love for and lessons from a newspaper's 180th anniversary
• Technically Philly: Interview with adult film star Stoya on technology and Philadelphia
• Changing ways in which society collects information
• Why not every blog is written by a blogger
• April uwishunu posts: Hysteria, author appearances and BarCamp
• Pointing to free online ways to train journalists
• Inquirer: Dogs call for a neighborhood in change
• Cliches that journalists need to let go
• The Temple News: my four-years with the college newspaper of Temple University
• NEastPhilly city controller debate brings voters
• NEastPhilly.com: an introduction, a City Controller debate announcement and more
• Young journalists should learn how to write a business plan
• TP: Editorial on Philadelphia CIO call for tech support
• Community News Startups: Presentation notes from BarCamp for NewsInnovation
• Broad Street Run: my first organized race
• Advertising can't be the only option and other musings from BarCamp NewsInnovation
• I’m the proud new owner of my own business cards
• Every college journalist should be freelancing right now
• Reader response: kind words for a ballerina tale
• How I graduated and watched my peers have a real impact
• I'm at BarCamp, why aren't you?
• SI.com: Smokin’ Joe Frazier’s feud with Muhammad Ali cools
• Bloggers need to respect old media
• Journalism classes that aren't regularly available but should be
• WHYY: Joe Frazier wants his whole story told
• Care about the future of news? then go to the national BarCamp NewsInnovation conference
• What was lost in the coverage of a student journalist and a Philadelphia cop
• Inquirer: The secret life of a ballerina
• PW: College rapper Asher Roth from Bucks County to hip hop star
• Beware working for friends, freelancers
• PW: International techno legend Josh Wink on Philly and his future
• When your brand is good enough to be a verb, coming to news media
• The pros and cons of my freelancing career
• What Twitter is really for
• When does a freelancer's workday stop?
• PW: Open source learning at Penn
• Attribution is not dead if we don’t let it die
• The four reasons for a freelancer to decide to write a story
• Success by association
• Who is teaching the next generation of journalists?
• Young professionals: get your handshakes in order
• The rules of when you can Digg yourself
• College graduates: when do you stop calling people Mr. and Ms.?
• Inquirer: Devon Theater reopens in Mayfair
• Live, from the Northeast – it's theater (Philadelphia Inquirer: 3/22/09)
• Live, from the Northeast – it’s theater (Philadelphia Inquirer: 3/22/09)
• Newspapers should make more money with their brand
• Turning down the self-promotion
• What is your blog's focus?
• PSPA: Eleven Ways to Improve Your Student Publication Today
• PSPA Conference speaker: Maybe I'm in over my head
• Redundancy: the art form of the freelancer
• Why I won't contribute to the Huffington Post and you shouldn't either
• Down with cover letters: Why journalists don't need them
• How to start a freelance writing career without writing samples
• The Franklin: what I learned from leading a high school student newspaper
• Clips in the digital age
• PW: Did Philadelphia ambulance response time kill a woman?
• Inquirer: Why are there so many aspiring librarians?
• The cost of the phone interview for freelance journalsits: how do you charge, what do you use?
• Seven habits of highly effective freelance journalists
• Blogging at Uwishunu.com: See me
• This is the 500th post on ChristopherWink.com
• How valuable are your skills?: newspapers weren't ready for their deserted island
• Introducing Technically Philly: covering the Philadelphia technology community
• Philacon Valley: The surging technology communities of Philadelphia, the Delaware Valley
• Phila. fine-arts scene goes where youth are (Philadelphia Inquirer: 2/24/09)
• Inquirer: Philadelphia's fine arts and social media
• Newspapers like the Philadelphia Inquirer need an attitude
• Why all journalists should use syndicated feeds
• Twitter, blog, new media, Twitter, blog, blog
• PW: Undesirable elements and an interview with Director Ping Chong
• PW: Frankford addiction recovery homes
• PW: Reader response for Free Library expansion story
• Required reading to own your name in a Web search
• Community journalism: What's the job and what's your life
• My elevator pitch: what's yours?
• 'Commonwealth Confidential' owns its Google Search, does your newspaper blog?
• Celebrating Valentine's Day with links from 2008
• Four ways to improve the Philadelphia magazine Web site
• Don't do it for free, freelancers
• Will the Philadelphia Inquirer Harrisburg bureau get trimmed?
• I hate PR-infused e-mail quotes
• Six month old trend, then I'm ready to join: is your newspaper like that too?
• Launching Technically Philly: a news site for the technology community
• Newspapers: stop moving around your online articles
• Why don't Philadelphia police and fire departments sell merchandise?
• Online newspaper revenue model links
• How, why and what should a young journalist start blogging
• Are WordPress, Blogger the next Angelfire and Geocities?
• Why losing a job can hurt men more (Philadelphia Inquirer 2/4/09)
• Inquirer: How unemployment affects men
• PW: Central library expansion on hold
• The Newspaper blog: salvation or suicide
• Give a Eulogy
• Inquirer: Zurich bicycle-trip personal essay
• My 10 favorite journalist bloggers
• Disclaimer: transparency on a journalist Web site
• My five favorite pieces of journalism ever (and of 2008)
• Your online videos: where to upload them
• Who is Tom Ferrick's heir: the best Philadelphia newspaper columnists
• The History of the Philadelphia Inquirer
• Flat Stanley in Washington D.C. for the Obama inauguration with Christopher Wink
• First to report Rendell named Obama’s vice presidential running mate: how an entire newsroom tricked me
• My Services: Hire me to tell your story
• Casting objectivity aside and supporting a former professor
• The Northeastern U.S. Cities: an embarrassment of urban riches
• How are those portable toilets going to hold out at the inauguration?
• Strange encampment near FDR Memorial in Washington D.C.
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day, before Obama presidency
• In Washington D.C. for Obama inauguration, Franklin birthday
• Really, how crowded is the inauguration going to be?
• CJR: How Vice President Rendell makes me want to be a journalist
• CampusProgress.org: the Obama inauguration's young audience
• Your new journalism job: what do reporters, editors get paid?
• Full-text feeds, Partial feeds: What's a blogger to do?
• Inquirer blogs that don't own their Google searches: all newspapers need to learn
• My apologies to Philly.com: how the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com are related
• Newspapers need to dominate local sports coverage
• The seven best pieces of Philadelphia journalism in 2008
• Why MySpace sucks, is lame: its shortcomings and possibilities
• SHRM: Smart Wireless Connectivity Key to Data Protection
• My problems with Google applications: holes in these journalism tools
• Wordle: Cool tag clouds for text
• 2009 New Year’s Resolutions
• Philadelphia Business Today: A newspaper doing video right, mostly
• Tell a metro columnist where his blog should go
• Blavatar, banner for ChristopherWink.com
• A German nod to ChristopherWink dot com for young journalists
• A foreign correspondent's view on newspaper struggles
• Five books I reread in 2008 that you should try in 2009
• My five most viewed posts of 2008
• Rate my Publish2 entry: I am the future of journalism because…
• Twelve months of top journalism blog posts in 2008
• Professional Resolutions for 2009
• Your digital legacy: we know your wild past won't forget, but who doesn't?
• Photo Web sites online: do any win out as the best?
• Letter of Support for Eugene Martin (12/10/08)
• Disclosures
• No love from my alma mater for UWire 100
• Recession thick, but some sectors still hiring
• Blogging elsewhere in 2008: a highlight reel
• Give an excerpt of your stories in a feed, get more clicks
• The equipment of this freelance multimedia journalist: How I became a better reporter this Christmas
• Merry Christmas Day 2008
• Center City Philadelphia at Christmas: how our city and yours can do it better
• Center City Philadelphia at Christmas: how our city and yours can do it better
• When to forward post to meet your Web traffic: the busiest times on the Internet
• Broad Street Run 2009: I'm joining, are you?
• Newest BNET Energy-industry blogger, me
• So late in claiming this site, others on Technorati
• How developed is your contact list: freelance journalists better become collectors
• How many resumes do you have?: paper promotion of the young and unemployed
• The 10 best Philadelphia images from new Life Magazine Google archive
• The 10 best Philadelphia images from new Life Magazine Google archive
• OpenID: WTF is it, why TF it helps
• Can I offer services in photography, Web design without formal training
• My Lifestream: Everything I do online in one place, here
• Jason Martin: Which byline is my brand?
• Marketing yourself online: your byline is your brand
• Notes on seeing Europe from a train
• WDSTL travel essays posted
• Lifestream
• Web presences, social networking that can be put on hold
• Help me understand the credit crisis
• My Services: Freelancing for money in a variety of ways
• The boy in the train station coffee shop
• What can you do?: have a mental resume
• Youtube: my one-year anniversary emits thoughts as a device
• One year anniversary of ChristopherWink.com
• Welcomed by the children
• Look at the comments, stupid
• New home, no Internet: My world in turmoil, give me a moment
• Happy Thanksgiving
• WDSTL: My first podcast
• Professional versus personal: My Web presence explained
• WordPress tags and categories: how a journalist can organize a personal site
• Lessons from WDSTL: podcasting, travel blogging, exploring
• Now I’m about to live alone (without roommates)
• Why I want a job: do you really want one too?
• Should an unemployed journalist have a business card?
• Can Philadelphia retain its best college graduates?: media industry looks bleak
• Your best friend (online): how many social networking relationships make love?
• Learn to e-mail better
• Freelance: Retired poet-priest in Irish Echo
• I heart John Baer: Move Pennsylvania Society weekend from NYC to Philly
• Young journalist for hire in Philly region
• Why this college graduate is choosing to stay in Philadelphia: should a graduate move on?
• Thoughts on City Paper cover story on Philly porn star
• Philadelphia, I need a place to live
• WDSTL Highlights: professional merit from backpacking Europe
• Your life as a press release
• Young, new media writer and journalist looking for Philadelphia accommodations: a cover letter
• I’m home from Europe, WDSTL
• One year ago: part of a panel discussion on high school newspapers
• Congratulations, President Obama
• European Backpacking
• Election Day
• Journalists are victors of the moment
• Halloween
• Philadelphia foods: The ones you know and those you don't
• Philadelphia foods: The ones you know and those you don't
• Why Can't Us?: I'm on the Phillies bandwagon
• A reporter, a journalist and a correspondent walk into a bar
• Self-promotion in a world of self-promoters
• How to get your press release noticed
• Story, article, piece: What are you reading?
• Wall Street versus Main Street
• WDSTL: a promo and pitch
• Journalism Tool box: What every young journalist needs
• What I want to do
• Weed and prostitutes: a conversation in Amsterdam
• My Life To-do List: A Web site to chronicle my obsession
• We Don't Speak the Language
• Failed post for BNet
• We Don't Speak the Language: European Exploration
• Graduation speech column for The Temple News that never ran
• Is Barack Obama a Muslin?
• To Europe: I am gone for at least a month
• Harrisburg, Pa. the city: Statistics and such
• 10 books Philadelphians should have to read: The best Philly books
• Squidoo: What the hell is it and why am I on it
• My Temple University commencement speech
• The Serge is Working
• The Wire: Should I learn something from Season 5
• Patriot-News: Pennsylvania Cable Network breakout box
• How a journalist can best use MySpace
• Tasty: Tomatoes and mozzarella, a true Jersey snack
• My internship with the Philadelphia Business Journal
• Are things changing at the New Jersey Herald?
• The new Facebook bumbles on
• My Flickr account reawakened
• A post-graduate internship done: what comes next?
• Someone who doesn't know me actually used my reporting
• Philadelphia photos: Air-conditioned churches and horse carriages
• Suggestions for the Philadelphia Inquirer
• The 2008 presidential debate locations suck
• Patriot-News: The state legislature on TV
• Yelp, I'm on Yelp
• Harrisburg International House
• Harvard University rejected me
• Internet Vacation: Because sometimes you need an IV
• Geronimo surrenders on this day, go jump in a pool
• Check me out on MySpace: why I am selling out
• My Commencement Address (Temple University: 5/22/08)
• I am the future of journalism (Publish2: 12/30/08)
• Summer is over
• What is Labor Day?
• Bank error in my favor, for a day
• My Pennsylvania State Capital To-do List: what you have to do in Harrisburg
• The new Facebook sucks
• KYW: My radio report on State Attorney General contender's criticism
• The Civil War is in my Capitol
• Best sports cities in the country
• There's a baby with beer on my news story
• Patriot-News: Brief on drinking age discussion
• CNN.com nothing without me, follows my story
• Patriot-News: Dialogue on drinking
• 10 people on TV I don't hate
• Patriot-News: No-fly list keeps pilot grounded, he claims
• Patriot-News: Muslim airline pilot, wife file suit
• Capitol Ideas: Interview with state Senate reading clerk
• I have 400 Facebook friends: What I've learned
• Capitol Ideas: Farm Show wind turbine
• Patriot-News: Rendell criticism brief
• Patriot-News: Howard Dean in Harrisburg
• False Story — Rendell named vice-presidential nominee
• Patriot-News: Brief on Comcast and Big Ten Network partnership
• Patriot News: Breaking news on Howard Dean Harrisburg appearance
• Philadelphia Weekly: Electronic monitors for sex offenders
• Patriot-News: Domestic violence programs seek funding
• Patriot-News: Online brief on domestic violence group funding bill
• Patriot News: Mayor Stephen Reed and Obama brief
• NYTM: Barack Obama makes racial politics go away
• New blogging page on ChristopherWink.com
• How the Harrisburg bureau of the Philadelphia Inquirer tricked me
• Morning Call: Wine shipment legislation stalls
• Point of View: Poetry for Reporters and Copyeditors
• Capitol Ideas: BlackBerry as legislative tool
• Morning Call Front Page: I-80 tolling locations released
• Vince Fumo: his color and charm and corruption charges leave
• When to go to kindergarten: who are the slower ones?
• The new media age is another Watergate divide for reporters
• Sussex County Farm & Horse Show
• Northwest New Jersey: a case for that extra geographical distinction
• Reader Response: Foment versus ferment
• Capitol Ideas: Blog post on Republican auditor general candidate
• This Land is Their Land: Could You Afford to be Poor?
• Reader response for Inquirer story on Harrisburg reformers
• Exceptional Parent: "Wisdom of a Child"
• Capitol feels bite of Pa. gadflies (Philadelphia Inquirer: 7/29/08)
• Inquirer: Front page story on Harrisburg citizen activists
• Rendell conference call on Obama campaign
• Booze, grudges and paranoia: what makes a journalist a journalist
• ESPN: Temple University Top 20 college basketball programs
• Reader Response for Babette Josephs story
• How walkable is your neighborhood?
• John McCain in Primanti Brothers like me
• Brian Tierney, Sam Zell: journalism needs the business attitude
• Legislator beset by reform movement (Philadelphia Inquirer: 7/22/08)
• Most powerful political reporters in Pennsylvania
• Inquirer: Babette Josephs criticized by “reformers”
• My Honors Thesis Web site: The Philadelphia Republican Party
• Google Image Search: The next frontier
• It's Funny: Darth Vader on Spike TV commercial
• Downtheshore in Wildwood for the weekend
• Pa. lawmakers seek special session on ethics reform (Philadelphia Inquirer: 7/17/08)
• Inquirer: Double byline on ethics reform rally
• Saddam Hussein: 29 years since coming to power
• Inquirer: Plans for rebuilding I-80
• A recent addition to Couch Surfing
• Time magazine: Could newspapers be nonprofits?
• Post-Gazette: Bonus scandal [with my audio]
• Post-Gazette: Bonus scandal defendants arraigned
• Post-Gazette: Legislators, staffers charged in bonus probe [with my audio]
• Post-Gazette: Legislator rejects award from White Christian Nation
• Slow day in the newsroom: Cherry pit spitting contest
• Post-Gazette: Pennsylvania firefighters in California
• Video: Molly and menstruation, circa 1953, seriously
• Greek mythology and state government; no, it’s funny, I swear
• Post-Gazette: Three years later, citizen groups still want change in Harrisburg
• July 4 Fireworks in Harrisburg
• Historic newspaper circulation data: how many fewer newspaper readers are there?
• Post-Gazette: Turnpike lease stuck in committee [with my audio]
• Post-Gazette: State passes budget [with my audio]
• July 4 Celebration in Philadelphia: I'm not there
• Post-Gazette: Pennsylvania cigarettes will be safer
• The end is here: Christopher Wink joined Facebook
• Budget debate can wait for Taps, okay?
• The 10 journalists I respect, admire the most
• Column inches: words to inches [Updated]
• Philadelphia Weekly: Father Figure
• Post-Gazette: Democrats hate electric deregulation
• Post-Gazette: Towns to pay for state police
• History will tell: the great newspaper bubble of the 20th century
• Vince Fumo at his best
• Post-Gazette: That's a cover story, son
• Post-Gazette: Municipalities to pay for state police under bill
• Sean Blanda launches Consumer Whore, changes the balance of commerce forever
• Post-Gazette: State's $28 billion budget agreement
• Post-Gazette: Environment, energy in budget deal
• Capitol Wire: Keystone Opportunity Zone program extended, expanded by Senate
• Leaving the Capitol at 10:30 P.M. on a Sunday
• Baltika: the kind of stuff you find in a Russian supermarket
• The Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents’ Association: a brief history
• Capitol Wire: Professor calls leasing the turnpike "risky" at hearing
• Sometimes you have to go into work with a mohawk
• Capitol Wire: A. Richard Gerber, Democratic politician, 73, dies
• Capitol Wire: State graduation exam criticized in House committee hearing
• Budget negotiations start getting serious
• Capitol Wire: Tuesday's budget negotiations focus on Rainy Day Fund
• Capitol Wire: Bill: bullet-proof vests would be required for security companies
• Capitol Wire: Bill to limit displaying human remains suspended
• Capitol Wire: Clean air taxi cab bill
• Capitol Wire: Winery bill criticized in House committee hearing
• Capitol Wire: McCain criticized in small Capitol rally
• Capitol Wire: Senate Banking and Insurance committee on health care
• King of Prussia: the child of Philadelphia tax structure
• Capitol Wire: Pennsylvania House insurance committee hearing coverage
• Capitol Wire: Child safety task force
• Welcome to Capitol Wire, Christopher
• Dwight Evans owns the world
• Angry Journalist contribution
• Academic honors during my Temple University career
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Dog kennel hearing
• About the most racist thing I've seen on TV
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Front cover story on Pittsburgh casino
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Illegal immigration rally
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Rendell and furloughing payment
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Casino grows, financing looms
• Guantanamo: Extreme Makeover in Philadelphia
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Kilbuck landslide
• Those who don't want to pay I-80 tolls in Pennsylvania
• Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Rendell and furloughs
• Are you popular? Let the 1940s judge
• Bill’s Graduation Lessons (Newsweek submission: 6/9/08)
• Press release of the day: new bathrooms
• State government comes down to vandalism
• Statewide smoking ban passes conference committee
• Tribune Review: Property tax elimination seems doubtful
• Property taxes abolished, probably not
• Welcome to Harrisburg
• Last day in 3333 North Park Avenue
• Finally, a women's soccer franchise in Philly
• Indiana Jones IV
• Graduation Photos
• UWire 100: I'm on it
• Six days from now
• Six days from now: excerpt
• Today I graduated from Temple University
• Graduation: closing out my thesis
• Home tomorrow: Lakota picture slideshow
• JoAnne A. Epps: new dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law extended interview
• Bill Green: three generations profiled by Philadelphia magazine
• Linda Rosanio: raising money for Susan G. Komen with Mama Nancy Catelli meatballs
• Last major Philadelphia Business Journal clip… for now
• Susan Barnett: bringing local news to CBS 3
• Lakota reservation reflections
• Learn how to go on a date the right way
• White River, South Dakota: I should be there today
• Tony Lain is dead: excerpt
• Philly.com gets new Web site redesign
• The Temple News: An open letter to President Ann Weaver Hart
• I'm road tripping in South Dakota, but I'll keep this popping
• Rae Scott Jones: helping St. Joseph's keep up with the Scott-Joneses
• Philadelphia police beating is not as bad as Rodney King
• The Sons of Ben: Philadelphia soccer fans benefiting Chester
• How the Republican Party chooses a candidate to support in Philadelphia
• Finals: Mr. Rogers moves on, seeks social security and health care
• Finals: Flyers in 1987, Ron Hextall interviews naked
• Tony Lain is dead
• Finals: Michael Jordan flu game in 1997
• Taking finals, give me some time
• Registered Republicans in Philadelphia compared to region
• The Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund showing the Spirit of Philadelphia
• My last day at the Village of Arts and Humanities
• I was at Mike Schmidt's wine-tasting
• SCA Americas celebrates Earth Day with Philadelphia schools
• Janet DeArmond: demoted to the top of Customer Service Review
• Goodbye Village: last day of classes of my college career
• George Washington made president 219 years ago today
• My post-graduate plans resolved… for now
• Our promise to Lacey: Lacey Gallagher remembered one year later
• Last week of my college career
• Trigger Happy TV: Don't trust this man
• Page one, double byline for Philadelphia Business Journal
• Former Inquirer columnist Steve Lopez in Philadelphia
• Chet Zoltak: the human resources feel eight hours closer to home
• Political endorsements don't mean 'jack'
• Fumo candidate beats out Johnny Doc, affecting the Republican
• Hillary wins Pennsylvania primary
• The April 22 Pennsylvania primary in Philadelphia
• The unveiling of my Philadelphia Republican Party honors thesis Web site
• Ed Rendell + Barack Obama = Hillary Clinton
• Baracky: the next Internet video sensation
• Monday, Monday
• Mass transit makes us warm, development assures it won't matter
• Barack Obama: from untouchable deity to struggling politician
• Pennsylvania: a review of racial politics displayed in Rendell and Swann battle of 2006
• Dan Soskin of Pinot: wine and dogs, 'the good things in life'
• The dangers of being a TV news reporter
• Denise Williams: the Philadelphia branch of Goodman Marketing Partners
• Interview: Kevin Kelly, Young Philadelphia Republicans
• Covering Joe Frazier for The Temple News
• John McCain = George Bush
• Crazy tax revolution lady
• It's April 16; do you know where your taxes are?
• Frank Rizzo 1987 mayoral campaign TV advertisements
• It's tax day 2008; why not an absurd Youtube video?
• Barack Obama addresses the latest snafu, bitter Pennsylvanians
• John Dougherty to take Vince Fumo's seat; no Republicans to be found
• Ed Rendell for Hillary
• The complications of a student journalist
• Finally, the U.S. electoral system explained
• Barack Obama clashes with Philly-style machine politics
• Q&A with Joseph P. Campbell, CEO of Royal Bancshares
• Smerconish has a take on those new Democratic Philly suburbs
• Stephanie Reyer: meeting old things for the first time, like Philadelphia and the Constitution
• Temple University Research Forum
• Bowling Remington & Vernick: bowling for charity, economy be damned
• The McCain Girls revived
• Montgomery County goes Democratic
• Gary Frisch: polar swimming for hunger
• Nonpartisan elections: the take by Sam Katz, John Street, and others
• E. Robert Levy: the mortgage crisis explained
• Glen Macnow: please rank Philadelphia cheese steaks again
• David Dinenberg: growing Grasso
• Weatherman apparently on the parole release program
• Keith Olberman goes off on Wal-Mart
• Interview: Sam Katz, a three-time Republican mayoral candidate
• Bob Barnett: former Sam Katz campaign director
• It's always sunny in Philadelphia
• Interview: Ellen Kaplan, Committee of Seventy policy director
• The Committee of Seventy: a century-old political watchdog
• Interview: Michael Meehan, Republican City Committee general counsel
• Interview: John Street, former Philadelphia mayor
• Interview with former Philadelphia Mayor John Street
• Weiner Pooper ransom note
• Hillary and Bosnia by CBS News
• Philadelphia Eagles, Phillies show holiday spirit
• Philadelphia is getting taller
• 'I like turtles'
• Philadelphia's second Ronald McDonald House
• Francoise Gilot donation to Ursinus College outside of Philadelphia
• Bank robber can't read sign
• You have been incorrectly honored
• Bank of America gives $1 million to Constitution Center
• Rewriting presidential history
• CBS News blooper: staged flood video
• The future of print media
• The small Hillary Clinton
• Steve Emerson: from Alaska to New Jersey, for family
• The Evil Easter Bunny
• 'It's raining John McCain'
• Helping kids out of the closet, into the Attic
• Barack Obama: the baller
• Trigger Happy TV: Lost in a hedge
• James Buysee: the Philadelphia office
• Interview: Joe Egan, Republican mayoral candidate
• Complete video of Barack Obama's speech yesterday
• Tracy Morgan presidential analysis on Weekend Update
• When a press release is like a friend who talks too much
• Multimedia coverage of Hillary Clinton at Temple
• What patronage means
• My coverage of Barack Obama in Philadelphia
• My grandfather waits: excerpt
• Anniversary of first walk in space by man
• Covering Barack Obama tomorrow in Philadelphia
• Mike Schmidt launches wine for charity… seriously
• Medical ailment interrupts interview
• My grandfather waits
• What does St. Patrick's Day mean to you?
• Barack Obama in Philadelphia on Tuesday
• How celebrities recover from scandal
• Matt Taubenberger the replacement for George Kenney
• The Temple News: College Democrats and Republicans debate
• Temple Owls are going dancing!
• The myth of reason
• Free consulting: latest story in the Philadelphia Business Journal
• Perry Weinstock: doctoring across the river
• Keith Olberman weighs in on Ferraro controversy
• Philadelphia region with new heroes, bank cash
• Hillary Clinton at Temple University
• Hillary at Temple, Barack coming next
• Florida, seriously?
• Vintage Philadelphia baseball video
• My final basketball game
• John McCain ad: oh, you like Roosevelt and Churchill, too?
• Everette Scott: where sports and entertainment meet legally
• It's Friday, depressing poetry day!
• Why do people hate Stephen A. Smith?
• Durkeim's suicide causes in final last words
• Durkeim’s suicide causes in final last words
• Chris Wink: Philadelphia Philosopher?
• The Onion movie: finally, real news
• Sending soldiers corporate love in 'Hugs from Home'
• Simone Weil and affliction
• Reality's absurdity to Existentialists
• Reality’s absurdity to Existentialists
• Logical paradox in Kierkegaard
• Existential men of de Beauvoir
• Absurdity in Camus
• Chris Wink: what's in a name?
• Philadelphia police fire back
• A blog for the Village of Arts and Humanities
• Japanese Ronald McDonald or just freaking out
• Why I am everywhere online and you should be, too
• Yo Gabba Gabba gets down
• Finally, cartoons sell what's important: cigarettes
• The supernatural: graves and ghosts at Temple University
• So far from home
• So far from home: excerpt
• Janet Jackson teaches Larry King how to dance
• My Harrisburg Internship
• Your grandmother playing nintendo
• New York Times gets down, plagiarizes
• Christopher Wink reports on Bill Clinton speech
• Attendance spotty at event to improve attendance
• Kate Flynn: the health of the Philadelphia region
• Toddler sings, wins hearts, asks for contract extension
• Mike Huckabee on Saturday Night Live
• Martin Heidegger and other sexy reading to be had
• A review of Martin Heidegger on being
• Christopher Wink does Hall & Oates
• The Temple News loves CREED!
• Patrick Murphy: preserving the American way in Philadelphia
• Saving 2nd Base one shirt at a time
• Chris Berman: screaming and defending
• Sharing 'Seeking Widsom' from Philadelphia Weekly
• Barack Obama looks pretty to the camera
• Philadelphia Business Journal: Globe-trotting accountants clip
• God and politics in Lynchburg, Tennessee
• Shooting at my Philadelphia subway stop
• A video tribute to George Washington's birthday
• Stuff white people like
• Interview: Phil Goldsmith, Philadelphia former managing director
• John McCain, surprisingly Liberal
• Reporter takes fall on TV for our enjoyment
• Philly super delegate endorses Obama
• My travel videos on AOL
• Philly super delegate endorses Obama
• Understand the Democratic vote through dance
• Obama as the front runner
• We're AFSCME
• Progress Plaza video
• A Port Richmond Puerto Rican
• Dianne Reed: A woman of fiscal mind watches our youth
• Rappin' Mix Master Mayor
• Michael Nutter on 'World News Tonight'
• New Opera makes East Coast debut in Philly
• First place Keystone Press Award
• Look, another list that criticizes Philadelphia
• April waits for May
• The diary of a mad, black, super delegate
• Like someone thought she was. Special: excerpt
• My son was riding this Chinese bus
• Arrest that jaywalker
• Like someone thought she was. Special
• A visit on the Fox 29 morning show
• Political ad of the century?
• Philly Mayor to be featured on ABC's 'World News'
• Andrew Brock: Getting out of his father's shadow
• Chicken attack in area high school
• Check out presidential hair
• Should you post an alleged rapist's photo?
• Bill McDowell: Designing on Philadelphia's parkway
• Johnny McCain is front-runner, again
• Travel videos posted
• Mark Helpin, Kornberg School of Dentistry and Temple University saving young teeth
• Dreamah's nightmare
• Dreamah’s nightmare
• Interview: Brett Mandel, Philadelphia Forward executive director
• Interview: Fred Voigt, Committee of Seventy former executive director
• T. Milton Street
• Ike Johnstone: a video interview posted
• Worst poll ever
• Kazaam: Everything is the same
• Crazy Hillary Photo caption contest
• Your new source for political definitions
• Worst Super Tuesday Youtube videos
• Fox 29 video from Super Tuesday interviews
• The Temple News Web site launches
• Christopher Wink on Fox 29 News
• Gary Foster: a weighty new challenge
• Cadence Cycling Foundation: giving North Philadelphia kids the bicycle dream
• University does something illegal to puppy
• Nicole Williams: a rare model
• Men's college basketball video
• The professor and the sexpert
• Campus unknown named next dean of Japan campus
• John Perzel 2
• Post-racial urban politics: hardly
• Wanna read 100 words on layoffs?
• Philadelphia taxes created King of Prussia, lost jobs
• A publishing meeting
• George Kenney
• Nearby Francisville is led by a man with a past
• Boxing legend and son fight different type of foe
• Domestic Travel in 2005 and 2006
• A week in Italy and its cities
• Domestic Travel in 2007
• A West African Summer in 499 Words
• On attendance of a funeral
• Lakota Reflections from the Rosebud Reservation
• Habitat for Humanity in Laredo, Texas Reflections
• Tijuana Reflections from January 2005
• Elwood P. Smith
• Grieving, angry and determined (Philadelphia Inquirer: 1/22/06)
• Ronald Reagan and racial politics
• A Generation of Change (New York Times Magazine: 8/3/07)
• John Taylor
• The other Tom Ferrick
• Interview: Eric Mayes, Philadelphia Tribune political reporter
• My future in a manila envelope
• Interview: Randall Miller, St. Joseph's University history professor
• Archived Blog – Tokyo Never Happened
• Japan dean candidates have surprise ties to university (The Temple News: 11/27/07)
• Archived Blog – For Starters
• TUJ dean retires for the sea (The Temple News: 12/4/08)
• Junior Year Abroad: an online-only NBC pilot travel podcast
• Tokyo, Japan Study Abroad Reflection
• Greetings from Abroad: a first e-mail from study abroad
• Backpacking in Eastern China December 2006
• Dispute ends with one dead, one hurt (Philadelphia Inquirer: 4/26/06)
• Road-rage case ends in a guilty verdict (Philadelphia Inquirer: 4/1/06)
• Study Abroad in Tokyo, Japan Fall 2006
• Airline-flight harassment case is heard (Philadelphia Inquirer: 3/18/06)
• Travel Well (Newsweek submission: 3/18/07)
• My Cross-Country Adventure Summer 2007
• Studying Abroad in Ghana, West Africa Summer 2005
• Philadelphia Inquirer Internship Reflection (5/23/06)
• Stirring the Melting Pot
• Japan and Germany: At War Together
• Does North Korea Matter?: An undergraduate research paper
• Fatherly Advice (NPR submission: 5/20/07)
• Larry Rosenthal
• University professors
• Interview: Dave Glancey, former Democratic City chairman
• An unannounced welcome
• Clarence Armbrister
• Chris Satullo
• Interview: Tom Ferrick, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist
• The competition
• Interview: Dave Davies, Philadelphia Daily News senior political writer
• When national politics haunt Philadelphia candidates
• Al Taubenberger
• Soon-to-be Mayor-elect Michael Nutter
• Al Taubenberger campaign commercial
• Seamus Mcaffery another
• Taubenberger and Nutter
• Philadelphia Republicans courting Democrats
• Seamus McCaffery campaign
• Campaign ad: Olivia Nutter on public schools
• Honors Thesis: time to focus on Philadelphia
• Interview: Karen Kaufmann, University of Maryland associate professor of government and politics
• Seamus Mcaffery: a mayoral contender?
• The effects of national politics in the local scene
• Steve Lopez: the columnist
• John Perzel with Fox Chase
• Pete Dexter: the columnist
• Michael Smerconish
• Carl Singley
• Dennis M. O'Brien
• John Perzel
• City Hall
• Bob Brady
• Al Schmidt: an element of change in the city's Republican Party?
• K. Leroy Irvis
• John Perzel 3
• Philadelphia magazine: Can Michael Nutter be a reformer?
• Ed Rendell
• Jack Kelly
• Atlanta: give me your Republican mayors
• Joe Hoeffel
• Phoenix: an active urban Republican Party
• Thatcher Longstreth
• Frank Rizzo
• Temple College Republicans
• Shame of a City: a Philadelphia mayoral election documentary
• Red, White Blue and Black: an honors thesis proposal
• Judge Seamus McCaffery: city Democrats run state-wide, GOP doesn't
• Benjamin Flanders: last Republican mayor of New Orleans
• Thesis timeline
• This thesis project will involve Philadelphia politics, to be sure
• An honors thesis focus: the Philadelphia Republican Party
• This site is under construction
• Honors thesis: a proposal or several
• An honors thesis proposal
• Final JYA Episode
• Hurricane Katrina volunteering in New Orleans
• Tokyo Never Happened: Episode Nine
• Japanese Names
• Lasting Memories
• Parting Thoughts
• The Scavenger Hunt: Episode Eight
• My Homecoming
• My Pledges: Evaluated
• Tsunami
• My Life To-do List
• Smarter
• An American Party
• The Tokyo Dome
• Karaoke
• Pachinko
• Fall Colors: Episode Seven
• The Tokyo International Film Festival
• Nikko: Part Two of Two
• Nikko: Part One of Two
• Math
• Japanese Food: Episode Six
• The Dalai Lama
• Thanksgiving
• Sempai and Kouhai
• Street Fair
• Know Your Enemy
• The Bento
• The Forgotten Japanese
• A Clear Night
• Tsukiji
• Government Buildings
• The Odd Couple
• Directions
• The Imperial Palace
• Costs
• Japanese Addresses
• Japanese Culture: Episode Five
• Disparity
• Teaching English
• A Ragged Steno Pad
• Reader Response 3: My Day
• My Bicycle’s Name: THE RESULTS!
• Kabuki
• Reader Response 2: Baseball
• Reader Response 1: Suggestions
• The Honorable Visitor: Episode Four
• Kyoto Part 6 of 6: Tuesday
• Kyoto Part 5 of 6: Monday
• Kyoto Part 4 of 6: Sunday
• Kyoto Part 3 of 6: The Night
• Kyoto Part 2 of 6: The Road
• Kyoto Part 1 of 6: The Plans
• Leaving for Kyoto
• Mitakesan Buddhist monastary
• My Bicycle’s Name
• Home
• Capsule Hotel
• Tokyo Feeling
• The Window
• Japan Part 3 of 3: International
• Japan Part 2 of 3: Domestic
• Japan Part 1 of 3: Tokyo
• Donald Richie: Episode Four
• Travel
• Bicycle
• Climbing Mount Fuji: Episode Three
• Jaa mata
• My Fingernails
• Americans!
• Yasukuni
• Daibutsu
• Man vs. Machine
• Understanding
• Shortcomings
• Disorientation: Episode Two
• Out for Battle
• Ingoshira Park
• Professors
• The Grand Sumo Tournament
• Yasuda and Jikoin
• Languages
• Pledges
• The News
• Kichijoji Omatsuri
• Yokohama
• Learning Tokyo
• Settling In
• Classes
• Mount Fuji: Part 3 of 3
• Mount Fuji: Part 2 of 3
• Mount Fuji: Part 1 of 3
• Introductions: Episode One
• For Starters
• Africa (My summer abroad in Ghana, West Africa)