Ah, the wonders of the Internet - here we have a Google ad for Jones Soda appearing above our vicious 2008 bash of the same company.

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Oh, and Happy New Year!

Don't expect much from the Belltown Dispatch in 2010 other than an occasional post. This site remains a no-budget not-for-profit experiment through 2011.

-Gern

We're breaking stories. Our readership is up. But we need your donations or advertising

"Our goal is have 1,000 people commit to donating just $10-a-month to give us some breathing room."

Hmmm.....

Accessing the news is just as easy, or rather as natural as breathing nowadays.

We turn on the tv, we browse the Internet, we fetch the newspaper from the mailbox, then poof! we have our dish of the day's news.

Most people claim that convergence in the Internet has strengthened civic awareness and participation through the blogs. In this sense, people are able to air out sentiments and comment on the hottest news that may directly or indirectly concern them and their community. This holds true for millions of blog sites mushrooming in the Internet today. However, alongside this remarkable change in the socio-political sphere via the Internet lies the unsettled quest for true, objective and fair news. Thus we ask ourselves, from where can we get THIS news nowadays?

This was the problem that my group mates and I faced for our final workshop in Introduction to Communication, a class taught by Dr. Veronica Isla last April to May. Intro to Com is two of the very first communication subjects that we took as incoming junior...

Paul Allen would like to thank the New York Times for this specially prepared PR puff piece:

Seattle's New High-Tech Hub
By JANE HODGES Published: June 21, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Top 30 Newspaper Sites for March -- Seattle 'P-I' Sinks Without Print Boost

By Jennifer Saba

Published: April 22, 2009 12:10 PM ET
NEW YORK

"Maybe print does drive online readership.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which published its last edition on March 17, was knocked off the list of top 30 newspaper Web sites in March, according to the latest figures form Nielsen Online."

See story at Editor & Publisher

The bi-annual election of officers for the Belltown Community Council was held tonight and the following people were elected:
 
Richard R. Nordstrom   President
Ariel C. Sanderson        Vice President and WPAC Liaison
Ron Turner                    Vice President and Chair of BHLUS
Janet Welt                     Vice President and Co-Chair of BCOP
Brett Paulson                 Vice President and Co-Chair of BCOP
Elizabeth Campbell        Vice President
Katherine Fountain         Vice President
Ann Marie Hitchcock     Vice President

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South Lake Union Stylist, Traci, is building clientele at Salon Voda located in Chandlers Cove. Free Deep Condition with Haircut thru March 2009. The client that sends Traci the most referrals for a haircut by April 15, 2009 will receive free haircuts for a year! Call Salon Voda at (206)838-8632 to book an appointment with Traci. Visit www.salonvoda.com to view all of the salons services! See you soon! Traci

As first revealed by the Downtown Dispatch Monday, Jones Soda Company has appointed Mills A. Brown to the trustworthy Jones board of directors.

He was a Dodge dealer in Arizona once. Here's his resume.

re:

December-11-2008 - Jones Soda Appoints Mills Brown To Its Board Of Directors
GuruFocus News

Update - March 9, 2010
Jones Soda reaches tentative deal to be acquired by Reed's- Seattle Times

Update - February 9, 2010
Alaska Air dropping Jones Soda, going back to Coca-Cola- Seattle Times

Update - December 21, 2009
Jones Soda considering $7.9 million sale to Big Red in Texas - Seattle Times

Update - September 26, 2009:
Jones Soda scales back sponsorship, sales deal with Seattle Seahawks- Seattle Times
"Jones Soda says it will no longer provide energy drinks and water at Qwest Field, and it is giving up a suite where it entertained distributors and prospective customers."

Update - April 24, 2009:
Jones Soda founder Peter van Stolk moves on to new ventures- Seattle Times

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Documents obtained by the Downtown Dispatch, the Belltown Messenger's blog, reveal that Seattle's Jones Soda Co. is attempting to terminate their marketing agreement with the New Jersey Nets, another diminishment of market share for the carbonated candy, bubble gum soda and caffeinated energy-drink powerhouse which is progressively downsizing itself...

Update 12.11.2008:Jones Soda Appoints Mills Brown To Its Board

Update 12.07.2008: Net Loss: Jones Soda wants out of NBA Deal

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Just last year Jones Soda signed a deal with the Seahawks to hawk branded sugarwater at home games.

As 2008 comes to a close, Jones Soda is down 91 percent for the year, and the Seahawks are the worst team in the NFL.

Soon, the world might have to do without Turkey and Gravy soda and other marketing gimmicks.

Stay tuned to this URL for for Jones updates.

JONES SODA IN THE NEWS:

CEO Buying Jones Soda (JSDA) Stock, Should You Follow? - December 9, 2008 5:04 PM EST

Optimism about what is essentially a barely alive 1990's era dotcom stock scam:
Saving Jones Soda - seattlebusinessmonthly.com November 2008
"After a decade of eye-catching stunts and media-savvy promotions, Jones Soda has lost much of its fizz on the stock market. New CEO Stephen Jones, however, says he has a plan to put some pop back into the drink maker’s sales."
By Julie H. Case

Marketing Genius: Candy Cane Soda replacing Green Bean...

For Immediate Release

Contact: Paul Merrill
People's Republic of Komedy
206.380-6571

seattlecomedy@gmail.com
http://www.voteorcry.com

"Vote or Cry" comedy show to Get Out the Vote.

On Saturday November 1st (the weekend before the Presidential Election) The People's Republic of Komedy (PROK) will present a night of political humor at the Jewel Box Theater in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood.

"Vote or Cry" will feature some of the Northwest's best political comics, along with short films and political sketch comedy. Besides putting on a great show, producers hope to encourage their mostly 20-something audience to get out and vote, since many of them will be doing it for the first time.

"Some of our fans don't even remember 2000," says writer/comedian Paul Merrill, the organizer of the event. "I do. A lot of people thought Al Gore had it in the bag. Obviously, it didn't work out that way. We need to get as many people to the polls as possible."

In addition to the Jewel Box show, PROK will also be hosting a special Election...

From July 7, 2005!
Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy by Ravi Batra

Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month Review

See also:

Alan Greenspan: The Fraud
By William Greider, TheNation.com. Posted September 20, 2007.

We like the Belltown/Downtown-related stuff Monica Guzman writes for the P-I.

"The Cascade neighborhood coffee shop that earned international fame for its t-shirt mockery of the South Lake Union "trolley" - a.k.a. the S.L.U.T. - has a new target.

"Paul Allen, they're coming for you."

(Posted August 15, 2008 11:59 a.m.)

-Seattle Post-Intelligencer BigBlog

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