Starbucks Redux…
On the 3rd of March I posted an article about Starbucks and the loss of corporate vision which has reduced the Starbucks experience to something akin of getting a cup of bean at a fast food restaurant. Time Magazine on-line put their own spin on the story with a couple of eye-opening thoughts:
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Techdirt had an article on Mar 15th regarding the blow-back that Viacom is going to suffer due to the take-down order presented to Google/YouTube because of the “more than 160,000″ copyrighted clips that the USERS had posed on YouTube.com.
What struck me most about this article is actually the last sentence:
“It’s amusing (but not surprising) that […]

Getting Harder and Harder to Post
It’s been tough finding time to sit in front of a computer for a little ‘me’ time. I’ve been working full time and with me being right in the middle of the learning curve half a day can pass in what seems like the blink of an eye. […]

Starbucks Smells the Death of Its Brand ExperienceCEO Confronts Missing Aroma of Fresh-Roasted Coffee
Wow, this is a great article. It really brings home that there is more than just one thing, a sign for instance, that are involved in branding. Starbucks had branded itself with a smell as well as a little green […]

Monster.Com E-mail Virus
This morning I received a horrible email purporting to be from Monster.com. You know them, the resume site that helps join up jobs with workers. The start of it is posted here:
So, running my cursor across the links I found three links to monster.com and one to http://khbdqnnkrgrl.com/ (Which is actually […]