Will travel for chocolate: Top tasting spots and tours

With its proliferation of artisan purveyors, Brooklyn has become a hotbed for the latest food trends. And at Fine ,amp; Raw Chocolate, sugar and additives are out and authentic chocolate flavor is…
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2429 words)

North America

May 2, 2013 11:00:26 AM A state-by-state guide to iconic US foods One of the hands-down greatest things about eating in America is all the hyper-regional specialties. A food that’s ubiquitous…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2708 words)

10 Hotel Secrets from Behind the Front Desk

By Jacob Tomsky Jacob has worked on the front lines of hotels for more than a decade, starting as a lowly valet in New Orleans and ultimately landing at a front desk in New York City. He’s…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1556 words)

11 Patron Saints of Food, Drink, and Those Who Make Them

Soufflé not rising? Homebrew beer not bubbly? Bees … suffering Colony Collapse Disorder? There may be an app for everything these days, but guaranteed, there are patron saints for…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1433 words)
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Post-Google Link Strategies

Link paranoia is off the scale. As the “unnatural link notifications” fly, the normally jittery SEO industry has moved deep into new territory, of late. I have started to wonder if some…
AUTHOR:PeterD
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3033 words)
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Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class

Jaron Lanier is a computer science pioneer who has grown gradually disenchanted with the online world since his early days popularizing the idea of virtual reality. “Lanier is often described as…
PUBLISHED: May 12, 2013
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5152 words)

Conscious computing: how to take control of your life online

'We work on machines that seem designed to interrupt us and keep us on edge. Then we try to relax using them.' Photograph: Aaron Tilley for the Guardian Back in the summer of 2008 – a long time ago,…
PUBLISHED: May 10, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2958 words)

Searching for Bill Watterson

This article originally appeared in Full Stop. In the days of 4G wireless networks and Twitter, when virtually every moment of a person’s life can be tracked online and many people offer up that…
AUTHOR:Liv Combe
PUBLISHED: April 7, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1550 words)

6 Ways To Send Emails Your Customers Will Love

There are over 294,000,000,000 emails sent each day. 294 BILLION. The average person receives 72 emails per day and spends up to 30% of their working day in their inbox. That’s a lot of…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2213 words)
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