Asides

“How Philly Tech Week Became an Institution” Philadelphia magazine

Christopher Wink isn’t yet on Philly Mag’s list of the city’s most powerful people (check out the newest issue!) but give it time. He’s a young man in a hurry, a co-founder of the Technically Philly website that has grown into a franchise covering the tech scenes in several East Coast cities. That venture gave birth to Philly Tech Week — the fourth edition of which starts today — and which is expected to draw 25,000 people to game-playing, hack-a-thons, seminars on starting up your own tech company, and much more. (And oh, yeah: People will be playing Tetris on the side of the Cira Centre.)

“How it became cool to be a geek” Inquirer quote

How did it become cool to be a geek? The ubiquitous Internet has helped. The like-minded can find one another, no matter how narrow their interest. “You’re not the other,” says Christopher Wink, cofounder and editor for Technically Philly, a technology news website. “You’re not so strange.”

I profiled Kensington Blues photographer Jeff Stockbridge

I profiled Kensington Blues photoblog creator Jeff Stockbridge:

“I’m used to photographing what is illusive, things that are hidden. In Kensington, there were women on every corner making eyes at me, a single man in a sedan driving the avenue.”

[Technical.ly Philly]