About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
The best places for coffee, beer, and chocolate in Brussels, Belgium from Lewis Dijkstra. Things discussed: De Boe Pierre Marcolini Chocolatier Michel Cluizel Chocolatier Belgian Beer Chimay Orval Rochefort Westmalle Westvleteren Achel Geuze Brewing process Listen to Belgian Coffee, Beer and Chocolate with Lewis Dijkstra [28 min] Intro: Tod Maffin & Sean from I Love …
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With First Crack #16 out in the world and 20 subscriptions in my iPodderX client, a couple of podcasting principles/core values are developing from where I stand.
Greg Beale, a Dunn Bros. Coffee roastmaster, and I roast 8 pounds of Colombian beans, discuss holiday brewing tips, and the local flavors of the Dunn Bros shops. Intro: PodCat from PodCat’s Daily Best of Podcasting. Listen to Interview with a Roastmaster: Greg Beale [38 min] Got questions about coffee or comments about the show? …
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First Amazon, now Dorothy Lane Market ends advertising and focuses on offering customers value. “We realized that we couldn’t give club members the deals that we wanted to give them if we continued spending $5,000 to $10,000 a week on print advertising” More in this Fast Company article: Dorothy Lane Loves Its Customers
Gene Oberpriller, who runs the 1-on-1 Bike Studio, gives us the skinny on his shop/gallery/cafe, the 15 year-old bicycle junkyard in the basement, and the history of Minneapolis’ bombastic bicycle culture. Links Mentioned: 1-on-1 Bike Studio Intro: Bill Boulger from IndieTickets.com Listen to Minneapolis Bicycle Culture [28 min] Leave your audio comments at: 206-20-BEAN-1
A conversation with Ben Tesch, the creator of RIAARadar – a website that suggests non-RIAA artists and MixMatcher.com – a media-player-independent song playlist sharing site. Links Mentioned: RIAARadar Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture MixMatcher.com MagnetBox (cowboy motif) BuyBlue.org I Love Music Apple iTunes Downhill Battle Blogger Minnesota Public Radio (MPR’s Feeds) Future Tense Intro: PodCat from …
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Had some technical difficulties publishing this episode – all should be better now. My tea kettle attacks me. Then, I go off on the news of the Uptown Borders going union – until I get that first cup of the morning. Then, peace and harmony. Links mentioned: Chemex Coffee Pot, Chemex History BikeLights.com: I use …
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The news reports that US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfled had an opportunity to inspire, motivate the US troops during a recent question and answer session in Kuwait. Based on this exchange, I can’t say he succeeded in addressing the troops concerns let alone inspire them to go back into battle. That is unfortunate. “Why do …
Related to my earlier post about saying ‘No’ (Some of the Passengers, Some of the Time) fed up computer programmers at Electronic Arts are suing their employer over “extreme job stress and health problems”. NPR had the story this past weekend on Weekend Edition. Employees are gaining more control over their work conditions with each …
“Go back in history. One of the first decisions an airline had to make was, Should we carry passengers or cargo? Whenever an airline came to that fork in the sky, they took both forks…” – Doc Searles Doc makes an excellent point. Very few companies can successfully be all things to all customers. The …