Entries about Local News
Happy Birthday iJustine
Local lifecaster iJustine is HUGE on the internet, so huge she has proclaimed herself as the internet. It has became hard not to find her face on websites, not that we are complaining she is a beautiful girl.
Yesterday (March 20th) she celebrated her 24th birthday, and got birthday wishes throughout the net. iJustine has posted […]
New Iron City Site
I gave out a blurb on the last Iron City post about the need for a new Iron City website. Well, looks like a new site is now launched. The design looks entirely better than the previous design and is really aides to the new marking strategy.
Iron City’s New Site
Iron City Beer’s Grand Comeback!
Iron City beer has been brewing for almost 150 years, and this year will mark a new campaign from Iron City to gain national popularity. Blog Drink Iron City has been keeping up with Iron City’s move to change the way they do business. One of the changes that will be noticed is the new […]
Read More >>Fashion Retailer Grows Downtown
Today’s Post-Gazette has a piece on Downtown Chick retailers of the kind of haute couture that, let’s be honest, you really can’t afford. Located in the Clark Building downtown, there is both a physical store and a (more successful) online operation. They employ aggressive national advertising, a staff of 30, and the kind of models […]
Read More >>RIP Myron Cope
Today, February 27th, 2008 marks the passing of beloved sports news caster Myron Cope. Myron Cope passed away today at the the age of 79 because of respiratory failure. Myron became notorious for the creation of the terrible towel during 1975’s NFL playoff game between the Steelers and the Baltimore Colts. Myron Cope is an […]
Read More >>The Road to be filmed in Pittsburgh
It has been confirmed today that the highly acclaimed novel The Road (IMDB) will be filmed in Pittsburgh and surrounding areas. According to 2929 Productions’ president, Marc Butan, Pittsburgh offers “the most diverse set of looks.” This is big news in the film world, after McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men has been reviewed […]
Read More >>Cupcake Shops Prosper, Expand
It was a big deal when two cupcake stores opened here in late 2006. Now, barely a year later, the Pittsburgh Business Times reports that both Dozen Cupcakes and CoCo’s Cupcake Cafe are doing extremely well and expanding to new locations. The new Dozen Bake Shop is opening in January at 3511 Butler St. in […]
Read More >>Pittsburgh is 3rd Bloggiest City
According to USA Today, Pittsburgh is the 3rd “bloggiest” city. Based on a per capita measurement of Pittsburgh-specific blog posts Pittsburgh comes in behind only Boston and Philadelphia.John Geraci at outside.in, the company that provided the data, has written a blog post discussing why these seemingly unlikely cities made the cut. He suggests that although […]
Read More >>Robot Hides Cold Metal Body; Dances Into Our Hearts
A simple yellow robot built by a Japanese research scientist has been transformed into a YouTube star by Marek Michalowski, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. In the video Keepon, the robot, dances to “I Turn My Camera On.” It has been viewed 1.6 million times.
The goal is to create robots to […]
Randy Pausch Wins Top Computing Award
Randy Pausch, a CMU professor has received the top award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Mr. Pausch is best known for founding Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center in 1998. He has terminal cancer and in September gave a “Last Lecture” titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.
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