Instagram (a social network bought by Facebook for around $1B, even though they had no revenue source at the time, and still have a fairly low level of revenue coming in) is still in its early stages as a social network. I’m fairly selective with who I follow on instagram, which means I’m still able …
Category Archives: coffee-life
pod coffee and digital rights management
Beyond the ecological nightmare of pod coffee, and the reduced quality from fresh-ground: now there’s the notion of coffee digital rights management, of a sort, to stop people using unofficial pods in their machines.
currently drinking: griffiths coffee
I’m giving the aeropress a brief rest from the conga line of different single origins I’ve been drinking this year, thanks to the generous offer of Marc from Griffiths Coffee. To celebrate the world cup, they have made their “Mundial 14” – a blend of South American coffees (including Brazil) that comes ground in a vacuum-sealed …
artisanal toast
It’s a sign of how broken the link of “I’ve read something interesting online” and “I should blog this” in my head, that I read this a few days ago, and didn’t share it here. The history of the artisanal toast trend in San Francisco is not just a story about ridiculous hipster spending and how …
fifty two (52) breakfasts
What’s your favourite breakfast? I recently made up a list of 52 breakfasts for a friend. Here they are. Weetbix with sliced fruit and milk granola with fruit bircher muesli weetbix with grilled cheese boiled eggs with vegemite soldiers eggs benedict french toast fried eggs with bacon poached eggs with spinach omelette – ham and …
aeropress
First coffee of 2014 from cafedave on Vimeo. One of my favourite Christmas presents was a surprise. I’d talked for a while with Kel about getting an aeropress, but thought we’d agreed that it was a needless expense, and a way of making coffee that requires a filter each time you use it. In fact, …
The pay by the minute, not the coffee, cafe
When I’m visiting a cafe to get some work done, I often feel bad that I’m taking up a table that could be going to someone else. This German cafe has a different approach: it charges by the time spent, not by the coffee consumed: it’s not yet clear if it will catch on. Customers are …
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How to do (good) coffee at church
Nathan brings his usual thoroughness to the topic of how to do (good) coffee at church.
Will everything be a coffee shop?
A piece of speculation about the future of a range of businesses and sectors “In the Future Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop“ (via disassociated) makes some excellent points, and a few I disagree with. In America in particular the cost of higher education and student loans is spiralling out of control – it can …
toby’s estate – now in Brooklyn
Who says you can’t get good coffee in NYC?