Great article, be sure and click through to the Economist story... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/16/1319201&from=rss
Sara Chan writes "The Economist has a story about a trapeze artist who, in her spare time, is the Chief Lizard Wrangler at a non-profit. You perhaps know her as Mitchell Baker, leader of Firefox." From the article: "Ms Baker gradually found herself the leader of this project. Perhaps this is because she is a somewhat unusual member of the Netscape diaspora. For a start, she is a woman in a community populated, as one (male) colleague puts it, by geeky males with 'spare time and no social life'. Ms Baker herself has never even written code. She studied Chinese at Berkeley, and then became a lawyer--her role at the old Netscape was in software licensing. On all technical matters, she defers to Brendan Eich, her chief geek."
Friday, December 16, 2005
Saturday, December 03, 2005
Sometimes you gotta know when to let go...
Friday, December 02, 2005
It's good for the little guy to win one on occasion.
(AP) Winona, Minn. Goliath has lost the Winona, Minn. doughnut war.
Krispy Kreme has taken its products off store shelves less than two years of trying to gain a foothold in the area. Locally owned Bloedow Bakery now has the Winona doughnut market cornered.
"Winona loves Bloedow's, period," said Midtown Foods co-owner Tom Thompson.
Midtown has had no complaints since pulling Krispy Kreme products from its stores several weeks ago, Thompson said.
Tracy Clementi, the marketing director for Glazed Investments, which owns Krispy Kreme franchises in Onalaska, Wis., and Rochester said the company stopped making deliveries three or four weeks ago because of insufficient sales in Winona stores.
Bloedow co-owner Mary Polus said she doesn't think Krispy Kreme had much effect her sales from the 80-year old Broadway bakery. Polus and her husband, Hugh, bought the business Jan. 1.
"They just taste better," said Tricia Cummings while buying a box of Bloedow's Monday. "I would rather buy doughnuts from a small local store than from a big chain."
Krispy Kreme, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., makes more than 2.7 billion doughnuts a year. Their products are sold in more than 360 stores in the United States and abroad. The company posted revenues of $666 million in 2004.
(© 2005 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
Krispy Kreme has taken its products off store shelves less than two years of trying to gain a foothold in the area. Locally owned Bloedow Bakery now has the Winona doughnut market cornered.
"Winona loves Bloedow's, period," said Midtown Foods co-owner Tom Thompson.
Midtown has had no complaints since pulling Krispy Kreme products from its stores several weeks ago, Thompson said.
Tracy Clementi, the marketing director for Glazed Investments, which owns Krispy Kreme franchises in Onalaska, Wis., and Rochester said the company stopped making deliveries three or four weeks ago because of insufficient sales in Winona stores.
Bloedow co-owner Mary Polus said she doesn't think Krispy Kreme had much effect her sales from the 80-year old Broadway bakery. Polus and her husband, Hugh, bought the business Jan. 1.
"They just taste better," said Tricia Cummings while buying a box of Bloedow's Monday. "I would rather buy doughnuts from a small local store than from a big chain."
Krispy Kreme, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., makes more than 2.7 billion doughnuts a year. Their products are sold in more than 360 stores in the United States and abroad. The company posted revenues of $666 million in 2004.
(© 2005 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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