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Christopher Wink

Christopher Wink is a co-founder and editor of Technical.ly, the local technology news network. Previously, Wink worked for a homeless advocacy nonprofit and was a freelance reporter for a variety of publications. He writes regularly about news innovation and best business practices on his personal blog here. The bicycle commuter lives in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia.

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Fastspot design agency has two nominations in 17th annual Webby Awards creative

Apr. 10, 2013 9:30 am

Fastspot design agency has two nominations in 17th annual Webby Awards

Butcher’s Hill-based interactive and design agency Fastspot is responsible for two nominees in two separate categories in the 17th Annual Webby Awards:
Hack Baltimore, InvestMaryland Challenge and CISPA: WYPR Maryland Morning [AUDIO] dev

Apr. 9, 2013 9:00 am

Hack Baltimore, InvestMaryland Challenge and CISPA: WYPR Maryland Morning [AUDIO]

WYPR Maryland Morning’s monthly Tech Check welcomed our own Andrew Zaleski to talk Hack Baltimore, InvestMaryland Challenge and CISPA, our coverage of the cyber intelligence legislation.
DJ Phil Dorsey of TheBocX: listen to Towson-based jazz streaming radio creative

Apr. 8, 2013 10:00 am

DJ Phil Dorsey of TheBocX: listen to Towson-based jazz streaming radio

The Towson-based PMI-certified IT project manager started broadcasting playlists of his jazz-fusion listening tastes three years ago. In 2012, more than 120,000 people tuned into his focused pre-programmed 24/7 streaming channel and now more than 25,000 listener hours are logged each month.
VoIP, GovSee, Google settlement: WYPR Maryland Morning [AUDIO] creative

Mar. 20, 2013 9:00 am

VoIP, GovSee, Google settlement: WYPR Maryland Morning [AUDIO]

WYPR Maryland Morning's monthly Tech Check welcomed our own Andrew Zaleski to go through a run-down again of general interest technology stories of Baltimore.
Baltimore has 10th highest tax burden of U.S. cities, but better than NYC, LA, Chicago, Philly uncategorized

Mar. 4, 2013 10:30 am

Baltimore has 10th highest tax burden of U.S. cities, but better than NYC, LA, Chicago, Philly

  While being called the 10th worst big city for taxes is nothing to celebrate, there is a sliver of value coming from how Marketplace labeled Baltimore. Among the cities that the Marketplace analysis — even if the methodology is surely up for debate — says have a higher tax burden include New York, Los [...]
How would sequestration affect Maryland? civic

Mar. 1, 2013 9:00 am

How would sequestration affect Maryland?

The effect that $85 billion in automatic federal government spending cuts will have on Maryland if they are fully implemented after beginning tonight at midnight is highlighted in a state-by-state breakdown by the Washington Post. See some of the biggies below. See the full breakdown from the Post here.
Uber legal battles and federal cybersecurity legislation: WYPR’s Maryland Morning creative

Feb. 19, 2013 9:00 am

Uber legal battles and federal cybersecurity legislation: WYPR’s Maryland Morning

The recent-most legal battles Uber, the on-demand car service that launched in Baltimore, and federal cybersecurity legislation was the focus of this month’s Tech Check featuring Technically Baltimore’s Andrew Zaleski on WYPR’s Maryland Morning. Find it on WYPR here or listen to the segment below.
This company has 70 years of documented ownership of blighted property in Baltimore: Slumlord Watch civic

Jan. 28, 2013 9:30 am

This company has 70 years of documented ownership of blighted property in Baltimore: Slumlord Watch

A blighted corner building at 701 West Lafayette Ave. in the Upton section of Baltimore was most recently owned by a company called Harris and Folick Inc., the same named company that was covered seventy years ago in 1942 for maintaining substandard living, as reported by the Baltimore Slumlord Watch. READ THE FULL ACCOUNT
“All signs point to Baltimore city becoming a bigger force in tech:” WYPR’s Maryland Morning business

Jan. 17, 2013 10:30 am

“All signs point to Baltimore city becoming a bigger force in tech:” WYPR’s Maryland Morning

The growth of the City of Baltimore’s open data movement and tech startup incubation programs, like Accelerate Baltimore, were the focus this week of WYPR’s Maryland Morning Tech Check segment, which included Technically Baltimore’s Andrew Zaleski. Download here or listen on WYPR or below.
“Help! I need a mentor for investment coaching:” man in Canton with that cardboard sign uncategorized

Dec. 14, 2012 9:30 am

“Help! I need a mentor for investment coaching:” man in Canton with that cardboard sign

Update: He has apparently found some mentorship at Betamore. A man going by the name Timothy Henderson, who works at University of Maryland University College and lives in Baltimore, was spotted near the Emerging Technology Center in Canton sporting a cardboard sign that read: “Help, I need a mentor for investment coaching.” Now that’s commitment [...]