Raleigh-Durham Named #6 for Singles
Forbes magazine today ranked the Raleigh-Durham area #6 on its new Best Cities For Singles list. Cities were ranked based on number of singles, nightlife, culture, cost of living, the job growth, online dating, and coolness. "Coolness is determined by an area’s diversity and its number of creative workers (i.e., those whose jobs require creativity, [...]
Raleigh Blog Analytics Company Purchased
Raleighing would like to congratulate Raleigh’s Jeff Turner, founder/owner/engineer of blog analytics company BlogBeat, for the sale of his company to the fabulous Feedburner. While the terms of the sale were not disclosed, I sure hope he made a pretty penny as he created quite the web statistics package. Raleighing used BlogBeat stats for the [...]
Raleigh Scores #4 Best “Big City” By Money
Money Magazine has announced their best places to live series for the year and Raleigh was ranked the #4 best "Big City" in America. No other North Carolina city made the Big City list.
Hurdles Can’t Stop Canes
What a night for the Carolina Hurricanes and their fans. Not only have the Canes captured the Stanley Cup, "the trophy with a posse", they also have captured the imagination of my 97-year old grandmother. The same lady who wasn’t interested in any sort of competition from playing a game of checkers to the numerous [...]
Raleigh is NC’s Sweetest City
Oh wait, make that "sweatiest", according to Old Spice. The Triangle Business Journal reported today that Raleigh ranks #1 in the state and #33 in the nation in the amount of sweat the average person on an average Summer day produces. The survey, sponsored by Old Spice, named Phoenix, AZ the #1 sweatiest city in [...]
