Daniel Victor

Help determine Philly.com’s linking/aggregation strategy

Tweet(To those who don’t know me, I’m a community-builder at Philly.com. I’ve been here for about a month and I’m pleased to meet you. Your feedback on this issue will impact not just Philly.com, but really the entire publishing scene in the region. I could really, really use your thoughts on what follows, and I …

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Telling high school students there really is hope in journalism

Tweet  (Thanks to Bryan Calabro at The Wilkes Beacon for the video) I was lucky to speak to high school journalists this morning as part of  the 2011 Tom Bigler High School Journalism Conference at Wilkes University. Its theme was the “future of journalism,” so I aimed to show that there really are a lot of …

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My true motivation behind a month-long series about dating

Tweet…it wasn’t getting dates. I swear it. It really was about infusing reader contributions into the reporting process. The idea started as a feature that would land on Valentine’s Day about single life in D.C, complete with bells and whistles and whosits and whatsits. I’d conduct a month’s worth of interviews, so this thing was …

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Quora for journalists: Daydreaming on its potential

TweetThe big buzz today was on Quora, a question-and-answer website that’s getting all the requisite “It’s going to replace Twitter/blogs/unsliced bread” hype. As with any bit of Mashable-fueled hysteria, it’s worth examining to see not what you can do here, but what you can’t do as well anywhere else. That said, it appears on first …

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Why leading on the Washington Nationals can be as valuable as catching up on the Redskins

TweetI’ve got a crazy-sounding theory, and it very well may be crazy, but I challenge you to talk me out of it. In the long run, I think the lowly Washington Nationals will prove to be as valuable to TBD as the much-more-popular Washington Redskins. For real. This is despite the rabid fan base for …

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