Posted by TheShot on 09 Dec 2011 | Tagged as: Café Society, Foreign Brew
We’d apologize for the lack of postings this past month, but that’s partly the result of good editing. The trouble is that we typically board up our windows and hide from most coffee blogs this time of year, as most become inundated by insipid annual round-ups of coffee gift ideas to help cash in on [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 14 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Foreign Brew, Quality Issues, Roasting
In case you haven’t come across this article from the Long Island Press yesterday: Everything You Know About Coffee Is Wrong | Long Island Press. Wow — local journalism is still producing thoughtful, lengthy pieces that might actually tell the average reader something they didn’t already know? Sure enough, it’s a rather well-written and thoughtful [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 11 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: Café Society
Last week the Wall Street Journal published yet another recession-themed article that was cited all over the Internet: No More Perks: Coffee Shops Pull the Plug on Laptop Users – WSJ.com. It seemed that every local media outlet followed suit (Coffee Shops Serve Laptop Users a New Blend | NBC Bay Area), with the story [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 03 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Starbucks
The state of professional journalism’s credibility in this country must truly be at an all-time low. Now I don’t think this because of all the blowhard bloggers who believe that any monkey with a keyboard can do the same job as any professional journalist. But it is stories like The Sacramento Bee‘s May 23 “investigative [...]
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