The 10th best read Technically Philly story of the year focused on broadband adoption in Philadelphia.
What is the end of December if not full of inevitable year in reviews?
We at Technically Philly are always interested in seeing what were the 10 best read stories of the year, so we collected the 2011 batch.
10. Where will broadband competition take Philadelphia?
See the rest of the top 10 below.
Former Next American Cities editor Diane Lind writes an op-en in the New York Times on blight in Kensington:
Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone does this. We get it. But, damn it, it’s interesting.
We’ve pulled together a list of our 11 most trafficked stories from 2010.
You can notice things like:
11. Science Leadership Academy: A new model for schools — Feb. 9
Below find our 10 most trafficked posts in 2010.
The creative economies of Philadelphia are still small but jobs in those sectors held relatively stable during the build up to the Great Recession, according to a William Penn Foundation-funded report released last week. The creative economy included jobs like graphic designers and animators and spanned from 2006 to 2008.
Commissioned by the Mayor’s Office of the Arts, Culture and Creative Economy and its chief Gary Steuer, the Nutter administration quickly trumpeted the research as showing a vibrant creative community.
We’re not one to question the look, feel and design of online presences, but sometimes it’s fun to let other people.
So, over the past couple weeks, we sought your opinion for the ugliest websites in Philadelphia.
Our nominator says: part of an empire of bad templates from a quick hit web design firm in town, as noted by other suggestions. Visit here.
As submitted privately.
Our nominator told us: “Actually had a convo w owner, “You don’t like my logo? I designed it myself!”" Visit here
This 1838 map of Philadelphia from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania didn't make our list of the 10 best maps of Philadelphia.
We love maps.
For hundreds of years, they have helped us better understand our world. That understanding has grown wildly with time and technology, but, still, maps help.
In a place as inwardly focused, we have plenty of maps in Philadelphia. You also may know that we have something of a technology community here.
So there are resources like the Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access, or PASDA, which offers just a wild glut of GIS shape files for mapping geeks. We’ve seen cool mapping tools that are of broader scope though Philly got some love: from the addition of bicycle directions to Philadelphia Google Maps to the Google Building Maker to mapping the homes of those in the U.S. armed services who died in the Mideast this decade and many more.
But we wanted to highlight the coolest maps made for Philadelphia of Philadelphia.
Taking into account our own map obsessions, suggestions and calling out our community, we took on the task of listing, in no particular order, the 10 best online maps of Philadelphia.
Below, NPR takes on Harrisburg university’s social media experiment, four in region make Forbes’ richest list and more.
Some people count how many friends they have, and some people count the value of their friendships. On social media — and the web generally — we have the same kind of experience.
We can count just about everything online, and so it should surprise no one that as social media has boomed, so too have the comparisons between Facebook friend counts and Twitter followers.
But there’s so often a nuance that raw numbers can’t show.
It’s easy enough to track who are the most followed Twitter users in Philadelphia, but everyone is trying to figure out how those figures measure in influence — or ‘resonance.’ Suppose we want to see who are the biggest Philadelphia voices in the Twitter conversation — not spam accounts with big follower numbers, but those people who you should be following, whose opinions matter and are being heard.
Simply, what Philadelphia Twitter users matter most?
Traffic estimates from Compete.com for Philly.com, NBCPhiladelphia.com and CBS3.com, likely three of the most trafficked websites in Philadelphia. Click to enlarge.
July marks the middle of the calendar year, quarterly reports and time to evaluate progress on yearly goals.
At the beginning of 2010, we looked at 10 competitors and their relative web traffic. With six months done, we wanted to make the first attempt at listing the most trafficked websites in Philadelphia, using monthly unique visitors as the metric of choice.
To make the comparison, we’ve used public traffic website Compete, but, by way of disclosure, we’ll always offer that any public web metrics are notoriously controversial. It’s also important to note that there is often a drag in such traffic estimates being pulled, so the surest figures are from the end of May.
So, consider this a comparative start and nothing more.
Web design firms — from the boutique to the satellite offices — abound in Philadelphia.
They’re into branding and functionality and crafting sleek, sexy, modern websites for the city’s businesses, nonprofits and groups. So, what if a 13-year-old in 1996 had designed their own sites?
We find out by using the meme-worthy Geocities-izer that has made its way around the interwebs lately.
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