This started out as a post about BarCamp NewsInnovation. But then C.W. Anderson helped me realize that BCNI Philly, the event I helped organize at Temple last Saturday, was just a (very) small piece of an evolving Philadelphia puzzle. Last week, after months of investigation, J-Lab released its recommendations to the William Penn Foundation. Then, shortly [...]
It’s been a little over five months since BarCamp NewsInnovation, and that has given us plenty of time to mull over the event’s successes and failures. BCNI Godfather Jason Kristufek has already weighted in, and I have a similar question to ask the BCNI community: what should change from last year’s event? Last year’s BarCamp [...]
Its high time I explain what I have been up to. I, along with Rob O’Regan and the rest of Vital Business Media, have been busy launching the first editorial product of the company: eMedia Vitals. In short, eMedia Vitals is a site dedicated to helping online publishers and I think most of readers of [...]
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 [...]
Before I comment at all about BCNIPhilly I’d like to thank the countless people involved. The people who manned the desk, floated around the floors, helped handle food, helped run the schedule and all of the hundred other tasks. You all rock. Thank You. It was just as the event was closing down that I [...]
Sean Blanda is a journalist / entrepreneur living in Philly. Read more