Five Word Coffee Shop Reviews and more...

Any real cyberspace hitchhiker knows that the best fuel for the journey is coffee. But on today's journey, where will I find the best "bean" for my buck?

I know! I will go and consult Markk of My Opinions Are Important and his Five word coffee shop reviews. (Yes that's Markk with 2 k's). He writes:

I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, every coffee shop will be judged not by its brand name but by the quality of its coffee. To this end, I have instituted the Five Word Coffee Shop Review. One day, I’ll have a five word review of every coffee shop in existence! I’m not quite there yet though, which is where you can help. Submit a review in the comments below and I’ll add it to the list. All coffee shops reviewed are in Melbourne (Australia), except for the ones that aren’t.

Some of the reviews are quite inventive, given the 5-word limit. So far Markk has reviews coming in from 2 Australian states AND Taiwan! Maybe some American and European readers can add to his list...

On his main blog, Markk keeps his posts organised according to the following categories:

22 Percent
Off
Blogging
Christianity
Coffee
Communists and
Nazis and bears! Oh my!
Deep & Meaningful
Family & Friends
Five word coffee shop reviews
Humour
Interesting, but otherwise unclassifiable
Melbourne
Mundane day-to-day stuff
Nutbar
Random
cat-related Internet stuff
Rants
Romance
Science
Sydney
Things
that are coming to KILL US ALL!!!!

Blogger Stories

Stories From The Blogosphere

the personal stories of how blogs have touched peoples' lives

Relax..take a story-break and read a Blogger Story!

So as you cruise amongst the blogosphere, and find a site, you can get more of the story behind the blogger.

Gee, maybe we should do a partnership of some sort... places we find here on the trail, the authors can tell their own story there?

Check out a few: (just selected the A's from the alphabetic listing) (no, it is not that A list!)

• Alex Genana
• Allison Gower
• Andy Hayler
• Andy Howard
• Ann Handley
• Average Jane

It also looks like they need more stories!

The long and short of the list

There is the z-list meme making it way around. I had my hand in it three times. Once here, the second here and the third here.

The third listing is the longer of the three.

If you are ever short of things to do and want to explore simply by following links, this would be a good list to use.

Long live the long tail!

Creative Think
Soloride
Movie Marketing Madness
Blog Till You Drop!
Get Shouty!
One Reader at a Time
100 Bloggers
Critical Fluff
The New PR
Own Your Brand!
OTOInsights
bizandbuzz
Work, in Plain English
Buzz Canuck
New Millenium PR
Pardon My French
The Instigator Blog
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Diva Marketing
Marketing Hipster
The Marketing Minute
Funny Business
The Frager Factor
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Open The Dialogue
Word Sell
Note to CMO:
That’s Great Marketing!
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
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Being Peter Kim
Andy Nulman
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
Darren Barefoot
Two Hat Marketing
The Engaging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
Conversation Agent
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Carpe Factum
Steve’s 2 Cents
Simplicity
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Make it Great!
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
Urban Jacksonville
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
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Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly
Jeremy Latham’s Blog
SMogger Social Media Blog
Masey.com

37 Days
A Clear Eye
Alex Halavais
Blog Brothers

Brand Autopsy
Brand Soul
Creating Passionate Users
Crossroads Dispatches
Doc Searls

Drawn
eHub
FAST Company
gapingvoid
gillianic tendencies

Good Experience
Hitchhikers Guide to the Blogosphere
Hobopoet
How to Save the World
Josh Hallett

Joy of Six
Learned on Women
Listics
Make it Great
my topography

New Charm School
Occupational Adventure
Orbit Now
Pause
PureLand Mountain

Seth Godin
Simplicity
Songs of Experience
Talking Story
Time Goes By

Tom Peters

Tomorrow Today
WonderBranding
World Changing

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Merry Christmas to all!

Migrated to Blogger Beta today

So far so good. My Qumana Editor is balking at posting but otherwise things seem to be working fine from my side.

If you see any problems or have any difficulty viewing the blog, please let me know!