Here in Portland, the last full weekend in July is always reserved for the Oregon Brewers Festival. For the past 20 years, brewers have been visiting the Rose City to share their tasty alcoholic beverages. This year, 72 breweries …
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29 July 2007
Coffee Recap, July 27th
Lots of people out for coffee on Friday… I know I’ll never remember everyone’s name. above: Russell (left) with some people whose names I forgot (sorry!) above: Nicole (center, but I can’t find her blog …
25 July 2007
Coffee, Friday, July 27
If you didn’t get enough caffeine at last week’s Likemind, or you just happened to miss it, fear not. We’ll be having coffee again at Stumptown on SW 3rd (but let it be known that my vote was for the Stumptown Ac…
22 July 2007
Substance Believes In You.
Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. We wear our beliefs on our chest. Substance believes in kids (above), and adults (below). James (above) decided to wear his shirt instead of using it as a protective iPhone carrier. W…
20 July 2007
Sitting around the campfire.
We’ve talked a lot about the idea of the campfire agency. And on a recent trip to the Oregon coast with the family, I realized what else campfires are good for: creating memories, and tasty treats. Sitting around a campfire …
18 July 2007
Coffee with Likemind / July 20 / 8am
Friday, July 20th is coffee with Likemind. 8am at the Stumptown at 128 SW 3rd. Anomaly is gracious enough to buy the coffee. Come on back to the back couches, introduce yourself, grab a Likemind nametag, then go get your coffee. S…
17 July 2007
Feature Creep and the Laws of Simplicity.
“The people who design and sell products are not the ones who buy and use them, and what engineers and marketers think is important is not necessarily what’s best for consumers.” - James Surowiecki on the Financ…
11 July 2007
Stinkerdoodle.
My friend James sent me a map he drew on Stinkerdoodle. Apparently Stinkerdoodle, a shared community doodle site, launched recently. We’ve been doodling around with it at the office… our Wacom tablets play very nicely …
10 July 2007
Less About Information, More About Conversation.
“Companies expect users to come to their site, but don’t support creating an experience. Instead, the customer is given information. We need to turn websites into places where customers can play, learn, enjoy, build co…
9 July 2007
Voodoo recognized by Fast Company.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/116/column-made-to-stick.html Not telling us Portlanders anything new. For the rest of you, you are missing out. It’s all true. Yum.
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