The Best of Pittsblog

An occasionally-updated list of the most interesting and distinctive posts published here at Pittsblog, beginning in 2004. 

2004: 

• Lessons for Pittsburgh (July 5, 2004) 
• Baseline problems and Pittsburgh exceptionalism (July 6, 2004) 
• Hacking Pittsburgh (July 9, 2004) 
• Touching a Nerve (September 2, 2004) 

2005: 

• Donuts Today (May 25, 2005) 
• Welcome to Pittsburgh (Part I) (Part II) (Part III) (Part IV) (Part V) (Part VI) (Part VII) (Part VIII) (June 22, 2005 - July 18, 2005) 
• Capitalism Rampant in Pittsburgh Restaurants (October 4, 2005) 
• Allegheny Conference Address (October 24, 2005) 
• The Allegheny Conference Responds ... Sort Of (November 15, 2005) 
• March of the Penguins (December 13, 2005) 

2006:

• Heinz and Economic Development (January 14, 2006)
• How Many Yinzers Does It Take ... (February 8, 2006)
• What Do You Call a Steeler Fan? (February 9, 2006)
• Allegheny Conference Goes Back to Basics (March 11, 2006)
• Y*nzerama! (March 27, 2006)
• Entrepreneurship Re-Cap (April 12, 2006)
• Too Many Chefs? (April 19, 2006)
• Hollywood on the Mon (May 2, 2006)
• A Chef Speaks (May 5, 2006)
• Economic Development as a Zero-Sum Game (May 11, 2006)
• How to be Silicon Valley (May 25, 2006)
• Busting the Lycos Myth (August 7, 2006)
• The New Pittsburgh (November 17, 2006)
• The New, New Pittsburgh (November 21, 2006)
• Do Institutions Matter? (November 22, 2006)
• The Rise of the Cupcake Class (November 28, 2006)
• Is the New Pittsburgh Really the Old Pittsburgh? (December 19, 2006)
• The Truthiness about the Cupcake Class (December 20, 2006)
• Out with the Old? (December 21, 2006)
• Cupcakes and Human Capital (December 21, 2006)

2007:

• Pittsburgh-Style Sandwiches (February 12, 2007)
• Pittsburgh's Entrepreneurial Culture (February 18, 2007)
• Networks (March 26, 2007)
• Penguins Nation (March 19, 2007)
• Manifesto for a New Pittsburgh (April 3, 2007)
• University and Community (June 5, 2007)
• The University and the Sporting Life (June 7, 2007)
• Up, Up, and Away (June 14, 2007)
• Public Art in Pittsburgh (June 18, 2007)
• What Pittsburgh Needs from Young Entrepreneurs (June 19, 2007)
• John Craig Responds on Public Art in Pittsburgh (June 22, 2007)
• Whining about Public Art (June 26, 2007)
• The Pittsburgh Panopticon (June 27, 2007)
• The Manifesto, the Diaspora, and the Second and Third Pittsburgh (July 20, 2007)
• Still an Outsider After All These Years! (August 9, 2007)
• Pittsburgh Leadership (August 29, 2007)
• Aren't We Special? (August 29, 2007)
• Food for Pittsburgh Thought (September 13, 2007)
• A Project (October 2, 2007)
• Blogging as Community Theater (October 7, 2007)
• Cutting Off Pittsburgh's Nose (October 24, 2007)
• ACCD, ACDC, and Other Acronyms (November 12, 2007)
• Grrr (November 16, 2007)
• Thanks to Pittsburgh (November 20, 2007)
• Pittsburgh 2.0 (December 3, 2007)
• Wear (Where?) Pittsburgh (December 4, 2007) (just for the comments)
  

2008:

• Out of Step? (February 3, 2008)
• Sushi and Pittsburgh 2.0 (February 14, 2008)
• Mixed Venture News (March 12, 2008)
• Macaroons, Anyone? (March 27, 2008)
• Division and Unity (April 7, 2008)
• Why Bother With Immigration? (April 13, 2008)
• A Primary Pittsburgh Post: Pittsburgh as Place (April 20, 2008)
• Pittsburgh's Internationalization, Again (May 22, 2008)
• Is Pittsburgh Lazy? (June 23, 2008)
• Testing Pittsburgh Traffic (August 4, 2008)
• Back from the Future (August 12, 2008)
• Bike You! (August 17, 2008)
• The Stories that the Facts Tell (August 27, 2008)
• Pittsblog Wind Down Wrap-Up Post #1: Thoughts on the Burgh-o-sphere (September 18, 2008)
• Pittsblog Wind Down Wrap Up Post #2: One Web Day (September 23, 2008)
• Pittsblog Wind Down Wrap Up Post #3: Back to Pittsburgh's Future (September 28, 2008)
• Final Pittsblog Wrap Up Post (October 2, 2008)
• Styx (December 30, 2008)

2009:

• Pittsburgh 251 (January 1, 2009)
• Not Completely Thrilled (January 19, 2009)
• The Future of Pittsburgh Media (January 21, 2009)
• More on the Future of Pittsburgh Media (January 23, 2009)
• China Millman is Everywhere (March 2, 2009)
• Onward and Upward in Pittsburgh? (March 2, 2009)
• Successful coaches are grotesquely overpaid (February 24, 2009)
• Endowments and Universities (March 8, 2009)
• Can Pittsburgh Save Detroit? (March 19, 2009)
• After the Allegheny Conference is Gone (March 30, 2009)
• Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign (March 30, 2009)
• Pittsburgh to Detroit: Bake This! (April 1, 2009)
• The Entrepreneurship Commons (April 2, 2009)
• More on Pittsburgh's Entrepreneurship Commons (April 17, 2009)
• Schools and Taxes (April 29, 2009)
• Once More into the Media Breach (April 30, 2009)
• Biotech and Pittsburgh's Future (May 14, 2009)
• Pittsburgh's BetaLab (May 15, 2009)
• Raising on the Entrepreneurship Parade (March 16, 2009)
• Pittsburgh's Entrepreneurship Darknet (May 19, 2009)
• Who Reads Pittsblog? A Survey (May 25, 2009)
• The Other Football (May 26, 2009)
• A Bailout for Local Newspapers? (May 29, 2009)
• Pamela's Pancakes Key to G20 Meeting in Pittsburgh (May 29, 2009)
• Who are Pittsburgh's Economic Anchor Tenants? (May 30, 2009)
• Pittsburgh as City State (June 10, 2009)
• Shot and a Beer (June 16, 2009)
• The Californication of Pittsburgh (June 25, 2009)
• The Post-Gazette: Where Praise is Due (July 28, 2009)
• The New Pittsburgh, Same as the Old Pittsburgh? (August 5, 2009)
• Everything Old is Old Again: Historic Preservation Paradoxes (August 10, 2009)
• What NetRoots Nation Can Learn From Pittsburgh (August 13, 2009)
• What Pittsburgh Can Learn From NetRoots Nation (August 14, 2009)
• Pittsburgh Media Futures (August 17, 2009)
• No Whining in Pittsburgh (August 17, 2009)
• Worlds Colliding (August 21, 2009)
• Three Tales of Pittsburgh (August 28, 2009)
• Violence Against Women? Or Not? (August 31, 2009)
• The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (August 30, 2009)
• The Story Behind Pittsburgh's Revitalization, Part I (August 31, 2009)
• Even More News You Can Use at the Post-Gazette (September 1, 2009)
• The Story Behind Pittsburgh's Revitalization, Part II (September 1, 2009)
• Cities are Not Computer Brands (September 2, 2009)
• The Sobering Truth About Pittsburgh? (September 2, 2009)
• The Story Behind Pittsburgh's Revitalization, Part III (September 3, 2009)

• Après the Cupcake: Pittsburgh's Deluge?

   (September 6, 2009)
• The Story Behind Pittsburgh's Revitalization, Part IV (September 7, 2009)
• The Story Behind Pittsburgh's Revitalization, Part V (September 9, 2009)
• The Story Behind Pittsburgh's Revitalization, Part VI (September 10, 2009)
• The Story Behind Pittsburgh's Revitalization, Part VII (September 15, 2009)
• The Story Behind Pittsburgh's Revitalization, Part VIII (September 18, 2009)
• The Story Behind Pittsburgh's Revitalization, Part IX (September 20, 2009)
• The Story Behind Pittsburgh's Revitalization, Part X (September 21, 2009)
• Let the Libraries Close (October 8, 2009)
• Letters, We Get Letters (October 13, 2009)
• Beyond Revitalization: Looking Ahead (October 5, 2009)
• Mad as Hell, and Not Going to Take it Anymore! (October 28, 2009)
• The Tuition Tax: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul (November 11, 2009)
• Losing Pittsburgh's Edge (November 22, 2009)
• Pockets of Weirdness (November 25, 2009)
• Down with the Universities? (December 2, 2009)
• City of Asylum: Pittsburgh (December 8, 2009)
• Tube City, McKeesport and the Future of Hyperlocalism (December 16, 2009)
• Cookies Count in Pittsburgh (December 16, 2009)
• Lump of Coal for the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (December 18, 2009)

2010:

• Pittsburgh's Next Decade: A Beginning (January 4, 2010)
• Pittsburgh's Little Disappointments (January 5, 2010)
• Pittsburgh's Next Decade: The Suburbs (January 17, 2010)
• Not From Here (January 24, 2010)
• My Turn, Again: Pittsburgh's Needs (February 3, 2010)
• The Parking Chair Thing (February 10, 2010)
• Pittsburgh's PSO as a Measure of the City (February 14, 2010)
• Why We Blog: A Sports Metaphor and a Mt. Lebanon Anecdote (February 20, 2010)
• The End and Future of History in the Strip (March 12, 2010)
• Pittsburgh Business Here and There (March 14, 2010)
• John Craig and the Future of Pittsburgh (May 29, 2010)
• World Cup Countdown: One Week to Go (June 5, 2010)
• SummerBurgh (July 4, 2010)
• Back to Pittsburgh's Entrepreneurial Future (July 26, 2010)
• Making Things in the Burgh (August 6, 2010)
• Tough Love for Pittsburgh (August 6, 2010)
• Magic Bullets All Over Pittsburgh (August 19, 2010)
• Human Capital, Employee Mobility, and Economic Development (August 24, 2010)
• Growth (September 1, 2010)
• The Donut Division (September 22, 2010)
• Pittsburgh Grows? (October 4, 2010)
• This Again: Entrepreneurship (October 13, 2010)
• No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, Sunday Morning Edition (November 7, 2010)

2011:

• The New Pittsburgh (January 3, 2011)
• Renaissance 3: The People (January 6, 2011)
• The Manifesto Revisited (January 13, 2011)
• The Cupcake Crumbles and the Donuts Rise (February 27, 2011)
• Open Innovation and Regional Economic Development (March 4, 2011)
• Our Igloo is Melting (March 23, 2011)
• Removing Barriers: Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Pittsburgh (April 22, 2011)
• More on Removing Barriers (May 10, 2011)
• Pittsburgh's Hub (May 22, 2011)
• Radio Waves (May 28, 2011)
• The Retirement of the Cupcake Class (July 9, 2011)
• Rust Belt Chic Goes Mainstream, or Hip and Hipsters in Lawrenceville (August 13, 2011)
• Pittsburgh's Industrial Commons (August 30, 2011)
• Styx and Steel, Part Deux (August 31, 2011)
• Putting Pittsburgh Demographics in Perspective (September 5, 2011)
• Powering Up Pittsburgh (October 7, 2011)
• Fresh Eyes on Pittsburgh, Part 1 (October 24, 2011)
• Fresh Eyes on Pittsburgh, Part 2 (October 31, 2011)
• Newsy News (November 2, 2011)
• Fresh Eyes on Pittsburgh, Part 3 (November 15, 2011)
• Pittsblog: Eight Years is Enough (December 4, 2011)

and the last:

• Pittsburgh's Renewal: Myths and Realities (February 18, 2013)