Archive for July, 2004

Boing Boing: Tethered to your Coffee Pot

Cory Doctorow posts on tethering… using technology to leash you to a particular product [read, blades for your razor, music for your iPod, or coffee for your pod machine. You knew there had to be coffee here somewhere, right?] The root of the post links to a …

Colombia Imports Coffee!

Maybe it’s those new Juan Valdez branded Colombian coffee shops…  Whatever the reason, for the first time ever, Colombia’s coffee federation is importing its own coffee. “We are going to buy coffee from the stocks of Colombian coffee on the exchange in New York and bring it here for local …

Cowboy Coffee, Redux

To follow-up on the recent Camp Coffee post, a Cowboy Coffee primer from the fine folks at I Need Coffee… “I’ve seen all manner of camping coffee devices for sale. I’ve finished my whole pot of coffee while friends were still waiting for their percolator to …

In Rwanda, Normalcy its Own Reward

The New York Times offers an account of international projects that are making an effort to reach out to coffee growers in Rwanda, as well as a view to how growers are launching their own bootstrap initiatives. A critical part of these projects: sharing the rewards among the …