by deCadmus | Aug 31, 2007 | Coffee
Alfred Peet — founder of Peet’s Coffee, grandfather of specialty coffee in the U.S. — died this week. Mr. Peet opened his coffee shop at the corner of Walnut and Vine in Berkeley, California in 1966, and awakened the American palate to the...
by deCadmus | Aug 30, 2007 | Coffee
Hey, that’s pretty savvy for Wall Street. TheStreet.com’s Eileen Gunn takes a peek at Fair Trade — and Fair Trade coffee, in particular. For a publication that’s altogether dedicated to Free Trade it’s a remarkably balanced, and only...
by deCadmus | Aug 29, 2007 | Arts & Letters, Coffee
In a coffee shop, and with her infant daughter snoozing at her elbow, a single mom — recently divorced, and struggling to make ends meet — writes a story about a boy wizard and an enchanted school. She writes in a coffee shop not for inspiration, but...
by deCadmus | Aug 29, 2007 | Meta
Bloggle’s readership has been doubling about every other month for a while now. Recently it’s started to double every other week, which I find pretty amazing, and gratifying. I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that I’ve taken to...
by deCadmus | Aug 27, 2007 | Coffee
Lokesh Dhakar had already made something of a name for himself among web builders for his very spiffy Lightbox image manipulation scripts — scripts which, by the way, drive many of the the galleries and slide shows that you’ll find here on Bloggle....
by deCadmus | Aug 26, 2007 | Forty-two, Web/Tech
It’s remarkable the ways the Internet has transformed us. We’ve been quietly beguiled by technology that doesn’t look or feel like, well… like technology. We’re connected — inexorably, insidiously connected — in ways that just...