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Michael’s Favourite Orzo Salad 24 Jul 2012 | 12:37 am
I’m not likely to be making or enjoying this stuff any time in the near future, I’m afraid, but you have my personal guarantee that it is utterly delicious and well worth trying out. As the days were...
Searching for @Man 26 May 2012 | 09:33 am
“When you think of the Internet, don’t think of Mack trucks full of widgets destined for distributorships, whizzing by countless billboards. Think of a table for two.” The first time I read the semin...
Leaky Algorithmic Marketing Efforts or Why Social Advertising Sucks 10 May 2012 | 09:02 am
A couple of days ago, the estimable JP Rangaswami posted a piece in response to a rather weird ad he saw pop up on Facebook. You should go read the full post for the context, but here’s the really qui...
Mayor Rob Ford, media kerfuffles and online sentiment 4 May 2012 | 04:12 am
Toronto’s controversial Mayor Rob Ford continues to get himself into all kinds of bizarre tangles with the media. He rarely gives interviews, preferring the unflitered medium of his own talk radio sho...
Joe Clarke’s Irish Soda Bread 26 Apr 2012 | 10:20 am
I brought a batch of this into the office last week and it was quite a hit. A few people asked for the recipe. Well, since my recipe is adapted from the one my Dad taught me, and today just happens to...
Social Media WTF 30 Mar 2012 | 07:45 am
This minor epiphany occurred to me when I was prepping for a talk I gave last week. I can’t believe it’s never struck me before. Here’s the setup – in the 12+ years I’ve been playing with social soft...
Hoist with my own petard 12 Nov 2011 | 08:09 am
So, yesterday I posted a certain rather long blog rant as a result of a bit of Intertube detective work prompted by a client question. The short version: we discovered a site that blatantly games soc...
BuyFansToday may be the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen 11 Nov 2011 | 11:36 am
“What fresh hell is this?” – Dorothy Parker The notion of buying your social media audience has come up many times before. There was that awful, lame-brained PayPerPost thing back in 2007. At the ot...
Leona 22 Oct 2011 | 02:46 am
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one mor...
America’s First Woman President? 1 Oct 2011 | 08:10 am
I’ve been quietly following the career of Elizabeth Warren for a while now and I continue to be impressed at every turn. Now running on the Democrat ticket for the Massachusetts state senate seat, Ms...
