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Mr Ritchie’s Missing £100m

October 17, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Half-baked

Easy come, easy go. At least if you’re a newspaper pundit estimating Guy’s divorce earnings. Compare the front page of thelondonpaper and London Lite this week.

Dissed by an Algorithm

September 26, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Half-baked

Oh yeah, you’re a super-clever, behaviourally targeted leading e-commerce website, but basically you’re calling me a fat geek. To my face. Nice.

Check out the homepage below, which greeted me when I cruised past the Amazon website the other day. O’Reilly books, donut maker and a chocolate fountain.

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Twitter: More Social, Less Networking

September 26, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Half-baked

A strange thing happened in London tonight. Strange, but good.

Pimp my SXSW

August 29, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Half-baked

SXSW Interactive 2009If you’re not familiar with the annual mass geekery that is South by South West Interactive or SXSWi to its friends, you may be more familiar its big brother, the huge music festival which takes over Austin, Texas.

The A to Baseball of Business Jargon

August 18, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Half-baked, Miscellany

15239014_a76211d798_m.jpgAfter a hefty amount of procrastination this Sunday, who knew washing up could be such an engaging pastime, I got down to some heavy-duty email inbox clearance.

Chinwag’s Roof Panorama Stitch-Up

July 16, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Half-baked

View from Chinwag's office roof at sunset

Ever since I came back from Thinking Digital complete with copious quantities of notes, I’ve been meaning to write up some of the great sessions at the conference. One day – probably – I’ll actually find some time to do it.

This afternoon one of those sessions sprung to mind. Steve Clayton, of Geek in Disguise and Blue Monster fame demo’ed some of the latest and greatest new software gadgets freshly minted from MSs’ labs. Amongst these was a rather natty, and free, stitching application.

Film pastiche misses mark, hits vein

June 6, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Cantankerism, Half-baked, Marketing

Whilst on a Friday afternoon diversion sent to me by a friend who knows I have the attention span of a….ooo, look a shiny piece of paper…

My gaze drifted towards this banner advert for Times Online’s Good University Guide – and there’s an expression that you don’t hear often:

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Remind you of anything? Ah yes…

Google Pollution and Homemade Pizza Dough

February 11, 2008 · by Sam Michel · in Half-baked

Panasonic SD-206 Automatic BreadmakerTrying to find instruction manuals online is a pain. I blame Google. Or more specifically, the SEOers who are working the search engine algorithms for the online retailers.

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