If you’ve been following along at home, my professional life is in a self-created state of flux. As a result I’ve been doing my best to get out of the weeds and explore other fields to get inspired for the next move. Part of that personal journey happened last week at Behance’s 99% conference1. The [...]
I have an immense respect for the work of Jeff Jarvis at CUNY. While other people talk about revenue models for journalism, Jarvis actively teaches his students to explore for-profit businesses (see his curriculum here). However, I find myself wanting more from Jarvis and other professors that teach entrepreneurial journalism. What exactly, are they teaching students? What is the success [...]
Now for the scariest sentence in the history of this site: effective June 1, I’ll no longer be involved in the day-to-day operations of Technically Philly and Technically Media. The reason: we’ve had great success running Technically Media as a tribunal, equally dividing roles and responsibilities between the co-founders: Brian James Kirk, Chris Wink and [...]
I’ve been experimenting with Tumblr lately. It’s half curiousity, half my fascination with online content delivery1. Tumblr’s CMS allows users to easily share links, pictures, videos and text treating them all as its own content type with its own front-end design. The content nerd in me loves this. After my initial glee at receiving followers and likes,2 I’ve discovered the [...]
I’ll admit: this is a bit late for a “new years” post. But lately, my bookmarks folder in Google Chrome has been filled with articles about the following six subjects, which I think will have a big impact on the upcoming year: The Internet of Things – One of my favorite action movies is “The [...]
Sean Blanda is a journalist / entrepreneur living in Philly. Read more