Pittsburgh Homes Daily

So I discovered that someone dumped some code linking to a bunch of spammy sites into my last two posts. I’ve since eliminated it and upgraded wordpress - so - here’s my TEST POST to see if I’ve got it fixed or if I’ve got to go back to the drawing board.

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I am alive.
Not just alive in the physical sense that I am breathing - I figure most of you probably guessed that - but ALIVE - that I am enjoying the twists and turns of life and excited about the future.
It has been almost a year since I’ve written an article for Pittsburgh Homes Daily [...]

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Here’s a truemor for ya:
Did you hear that Guy Kawasaki is using Redfin to sell this house in Pittsburgh?
Innovation. That’s not what’s happening when a real estate agent figures out how to post a profile on Myspace and even turn that profile into a … gasp … client. Or when a Realtor starts a blog [...]

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Photo by D’arcy Norman.

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12 months, 365 days, 371 posts, and 350 comments later, Pittsburgh Homes Daily is now 1 year old!
A page one ranking on Google for “Pittsburgh homes” and on the second page currently for “Pittsburgh real estate”.
15,000 visitors last year and 17,000 already this year (it’s about 4,000 unique visitors a month currently).
About 10,000 page views on my post [...]

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Applications for the Propel Pittsburgh Commission are being accepted by the Mayor’s office. If you didn’t catch the news story, the only metropolitan area in the US to beat Pittsburgh’s declining population was New Orleans. Subsequently, the Mayor announced (or reannounced?) the formation of the Propel Pittsburgh Commission to keep and attract young professionals to [...]

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As part of the city’s 250th birthday bash (Tribune-Review), the Sprout Fund will provide grants (Post-Gazette) to neighborhood organizations and Pittsburgh residents to turn their ideas to commemorate Pittsburgh into reality. 
Although the website that the Post-Gazette links to is currently parked, I’m sure that the Sprout Fund or Imagine Pittsburgh will soon have a prominent link to it.
I’m looking forward [...]

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today has an article about the declining population in Pittsburgh.  Apparently, Pittsburgh has lost more residents since 2000 than any metropolitan area except New Orleans.  This resulted from both a lack of immigration and a declining birth rate.
What the article does not mention is that Pittsburgh is just a little bit less [...]

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The Mayor’s plan to seize crime ridden properties from landlords, detailed in today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here, reminds me of the lawsuits from the music industry to stop the illegal distribution of music.
A great idea in theory, but poorly executed.  At least that’s my impression after reading the Post-Gazette article.  I’m not sure who to believe, [...]

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The Pittsburgh Home & Garden show starts today, Friday, Mar. 9, 2007 and ends March 18th, one week behind schedule.  The Post-Gazette has run a number of articles concerning it on 2/25 and 3/3 (indexed here).
If you are going on a weekday, don’t forget to print the discount coupon!

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