By now you’ve probably heard the reports that the City of Philadelphia is charging bloggers $300 to operate a website.
The story has been republished in the Washington Post, Mashable and other outlets after first being reported by my old employer, the Philadelphia Citypaper (though local message board Philadelphia Speaks wrote about this before anyone else). [...]
Category Archives: Technically Philly
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On Philly’s “blog tax”
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Taking the leap: working on Technically Philly full time
At our presentation at BarCamp NewsInnovation this year, Technically Philly stood in front of the room and declared that it was the company’s goal to have one of the three co-founders work on the business full time.
As of last week, we can check that one off of our todo list.
Starting at the end of this month [...]
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The future of local media according to Technically Philly
I’ve been busy the past few months. Honest.
Brian James Kirk, Christopher Wink and I have been hard at work trying to do our part in making our ideas and best guesses about local media into a reality (with different rates of success, I’ll add).
I figured I’d shed a little bit of light about what we’ve [...]
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Jun
10
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I got a job + Technically Philly update
I swear there is a reason why I have been so quiet. Well, actually make that “reasons.”
One, TechnicallyPhilly is doing as well as any of us could hope when it comes to traffic and community response, so we are making our first moves towards monetization with the slow rollout of our advertising infrastructure. This has [...]
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Introducing TechnicallyPhilly.com, a blog covering technology in Philadelphia
I remember it pretty distinctly. It was last summer, and I was just getting off of work at the City Paper. Along with a few friends I rushed a few neighborhoods over to attend Ignite Philly. Ignite was an event that gave a series of speakers five minutes on stage to say whatever they wanted. [...]