Category Archives: technology

Check out a Cheese Printer at the Mini Maker Faire

I have been waiting for MakerFaire to come to Pittsburgh for years!!!  I have been a follower of Make and Craft – both are magazines/blogs published by O’Reilly Media.  The Make magazine folks organized the first Maker Faire in CA back in 2006.  It was a live festival of all things creative, handmade, DIY and hacked.  Since 2006 – Maker more

Would you buy a Pittsburgher a cup of coffee (or a beer)?

This evening, Aldo Coffee (which is located in Mt. Lebanaon) wrote a blog post  linking to this post on the blog Coffee Strategies – which is a blog that covers all sorts of interesting things about the coffee business. Coffee Strategies writes about Jonthan’s Card (http://jonathanstark.com/card/) – an image of Starbuck’s gift card that Jonathan more

Test Driving the Chevy Volt – Pittsburgh Auto Show

From Lindsay: Thanks to the folks at Chevy for inviting us to the pre-auto show preview.  I have been really impressed at how eager the team at Chevy is to work with local bloggers.  They were kind enough to not only giveaway Steeler’s tickets last fall but they were also very happy to help turn the test drive party into a fundraiser for the CHS more

Get Into the Pittsburgh Gigapanorama

On Thursday, September 23 there will be a photo shoot for the 2nd Pittsburgh Gigapanorama – you are invited to participate.  The details for Thursday are available here.  For the whole story about the project keep reading. Gigapana-What? I promise this is not a scary disease or some fancy name for bed bug infestation – a gigopanorama is a giant panoramic more

PodCamp Pittsburgh 5 This Weekend!

This weekend, the halls and classrooms of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh will be filled with people who are eager to learn about advances in social media, interact (in real life!) with others in the regional Web 2.0 community, and apply their new found insights to their social media business strategies and personal ventures. PodCamp was started several more

Social Media Share – How Do You Use Social Media for Your Business/Blog/Organization/Non-profit?

Image by biblicone via Flickr Tomorrow I will be a panelist for one of the sessions at the Pittsburgh Craft Collective’s  The Business of Craft workshop.I am sitting here at my computer putting together some links and ideas on how I use social media – blogs, facebook, twitter – for IheartPGH and some of the other projects I manage for work.  more

Festival of Geek Meets Green Meets Arts on Penn Ave – Friday April 2nd

Since tomorrow is the first Friday of the month – it is First Friday’s on Penn Avenue – where business and galleries stay open late and have special programs for the evening. This Friday is also the Geek Arts/Green Innovators (GA/GI) Festival.  One of the great things about Pittsburgh, and I feel like I say this often, but it is true and worth repeating more