CI: stupidly undermining its paltry fan base!
August 12, 2006 – 6:03 pminquiring blogs want to know: would the now-ubiquitous hoffmann have listed this site among his “favorite blogs” in the latest issue of barista mag had we incited this week’s needless rhetorical row before it went to press?
UPDATE: how do we know he compiled the list before our ribbing? easy! hoffmann’s own url printed in the new issue is already outdated by weeks…
UPDATE: not only has hoffmann been the subject of a recent poke, but this blog has been known to tweak the magazine. this makes a confluence of kindness from CI arch-nemeses! to be clear, this blog is always open for a good co-opting…
UPDATE: when the washington post linked to this blog last month, the spike in traffic was surprisingly non-resilient. ’twill be interesting to see if the trade pub-generated hits will be any more residual in nature. if so, we will begin shamelessly groveling for exposure in the now-regular magazine feature on coffee blogs. “free pour,” it’s called. as in, “this is shaping up to be an attention-grabbing free-pour-all.”
UPDATE: which begs the question: which will be the more elusive status symbol of internet-based insider triple-waveists? regular mentions in barista mag’s blog round-up or a place among the glamorous coffeed think-tankers, where the rarified air has not one, but two layers — exclusive memberhip to the forum, then a special invite to the research group! this blog is still mulling its options.
Damn right I would!
Love the blog, the attitude and the fact that at first half of your posts make no sense whatsoever!
so kind, jim, so kind.
this blog tries to make as little sense as possible. now for the question of research and serious writing for the coffeed think-tank. still mulling it…
The coffeed thing could be really good. I need to perhaps put a little more effort into giving it some direction.
And as for the url thing – I realised all too late that this article was out this month, and I hadn’t let them know it had changed.
Still – the forwarding thing means they should all end up at the right place eventually.
And your blog makes more sense now.
i’m fascinated by the coffeed idea, really. just examining my most likely topics right now to see if i have anything good enough. time and research capabilities are both concerns here in the hinterlands.
NOT that that means the amateur espresso is in any way inferior!
I suspect the coffeed project will end up being like herding fish, but there should be one or two amazing things to come out of it.
I would ask you what I ask everyone else – choose a topic of real interest to you, not what you think everyone else might like. And don’t aim too high (not in a patronising way, more a practical one).
And I hope that my last experiment with commerical coffees brewed on a home setup should have put our head to head agreement to rest.
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