My life
I never was a runner.
I played basketball in high school, something with which I’ve kept up a bit. I wasn’t a runner.
Still, I am – fairly early on – throwing my hat in on this year’s Broad Street Run, the busiest 10-mile run in the country, to be held this year on May 3, 2009. Who is with me?
Continue reading Broad Street Run 2009: I'm joining, are you?
Talk to me in a few weeks. I ought to be some sort of expert on the global energy industry.
Largely on the back of my internship with the Philadelphia Business Journal and my blogging experience in a variety of venues, I am proud to say that I’ve gotten a gig blogging on the energy industry for BNET Industries, an industry-news provider and subsidiary of CBS Interactive.
That means I have a steady alternative revenue stream – for the time being. It isn’t full-time, so no health insurance, but for a freelance journalist, it’s a golden gig to get some steady money (more tips like that in a future post).
I am at least one year behind in claiming this site on Technorati.
I’ll bet you’re in one of two camps: either you think it’s ridiculous I’m only now understanding this process or you have no idea what I am talking about.
And, believe me, either way there’s a good chance you’re not going to care about this. But if you have a blog, a Web site or, Hell, I don’t know, a LiveJournal account, you ought to sign on to Technorati and “claim it.” So, come on, learn something if you are somehow even more behind in this than I was.
Because “claiming” your blog is for reasons I always vaguely knew but didn’t really understand, nor did I act on until just on Friday.
Continue reading So late in claiming this site, others on Technorati
I can admit that ignored what an OpenID is mostly until last week.
Yeah, I suppose that’s embarrassing for a man of my enormous stature. …Right.
Well, if you don’t have one or just might like to know what gives about the vague-sounding device, let me give you a quick tour.
My FriendFeed has made it to this site.
This will interest a very small portion of my very small readership, but it’s Sunday, so I’m OK with that.
In my About section, I have added a Lifestream, via my FriendFeed. For those who understandably don’t know what the Hell that means, well, just about everything I could ever do online is automatically generated in one place. That way you can follow me in multiple platforms. …For both legitimate and illegitimate purposes.
Continue reading My Lifestream: Everything I do online in one place, here
Today is the one-year anniversary of this site.
Yes, you may use the comments section to review some of your favorite moments, most of which I will assume brought you to tears.
If you can’t do that on your own, I’ll help you out, mostly because we all know I would.
Continue reading One year anniversary of ChristopherWink.com
I am sitting in the Frankford Library, stealing wireless Internet by using a fake library card ID number I schmoozed out of a kind librarian.
Philadelphia, you have just earned yourself one more unemployed resident.
Continue reading New home, no Internet: My world in turmoil, give me a moment
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My good friend Sean Blanda and I put together a weekly podcast on our travel blog WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com during our European backpacking trip. We returned earlier this month but only now got the last of our posts up and put some finishing touches on the site, where we broadcast our weekly Sunday night episodes.
See our last episode below or all the episodes here.
I’m reworking this site. There is no reason for you to have noticed that I’ve changed all the categories and started using tags for my posts. All of my archives are now online with the concept.
I was trying to organize a post last week and realized I had more than 40 categories and was barely using tags. That’s ridiculous. Their purposes are to better organize posts and allow you to group like material. None of that was happening.
Yes, for those of you new or unfamiliar to WordPress, it gives you every reason for your product to be super organized and increase the searchability of your posts. The better organized, the easier it is to disseminate and let others find your material. That’s good news for a young journalist looking to promote himself.
The only problem is that I have more than 400 posts in less than a year of this blog’s existence. That’s a lot of work.
Continue reading WordPress tags and categories: how a journalist can organize a personal site
