Portland is home to a number of top flight coffee shops--Barista, Albina Press, Spella, Stumptown, Ristretto, Heart and Extracto all contribute mightily to the thriving coffee scene in Portland. But their largess does not extend to the suburbs, and as a resident of...
Obama’s Team Shows Us The Power of Owned Media
I loathe the state of TV news today. The American public is fed such a distorted view of events, filtered as they are by bought-and-paid-for pundits, not reporters. Clearly, this sad state of affairs calls for a response, and The White House, for one, has one. Since...
Searchlight Casting For Faults In The Clouds Of Delusion
Two weeks ago in Boston, author and speaker David Meerman Scott came off the stage at DMA2011 to hand me a copy of the book he co-authored with Brian Halligan of HubSpot. Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band...
It’s Still The Economy, Stupid
"Portland is where young people go to retire." That's the rap laid down by Portlandia, a funny send up of life in Oregon's biggest city. However, the issue of few jobs and low wages is not very funny for the Oregon citizens searching for their first job or in the...
Steve Jobs, An American Original
"It isn’t the consumers’ job to know what they want.†-Steve Jobs Steve Jobs passed away from a rare form of cancer last week at the age of 56. Since then, I've read a handful of articles about the man and the impact he made on modern culture. Maybe you have...