I won’t be deleting The Kaiser Edition as I think some of the stuff you will find here is actually quite good, but I will be turning the comments off because I would have to come online to moderate them, and as I’ve formally resigned from the Web 2.0 that would be a breach of contract.

Thank you all for coming, reading, linking and commenting. Thank you for writing your own splendid things that I, in turn could comment on and link too. You’ve all been lovely, even Ben. But that’s now come to an end. There will be no more comments from me, my very last twitter pretty much sums up everything I want to say.

So, on this, the first day of my own personal new year (37 don’t you know) I’m going to start doing things in real life. Not in Beta.

No, not in Beta.

Good bye to you. Good bye Sir Martin.

Dear Sir,

The purpose of this letter is to announce my resignation from The Web 2.0, effective as of tomorrow.
This was not an easy decision to make, on my part. The past 2 years have been very rewarding. I’ve enjoyed working for you.

Best regards,
The Kaiser

Dear Sir,

The purpose of this letter is to announce my resignation from The Web 2.0, effective as of tomorrow.
This was not an easy decision to make, on my part. The past 2 years have been very rewarding. I’ve enjoyed working for you.

Best regards,
Marcus Brown

Dear Sir,

The purpose of this letter is to announce my resignation from The Web 2.0, effective as of tomorrow.
This was not an easy decision to make, on my part. The past 2 years have been very rewarding. I’ve enjoyed working for you.

Best regards,
Sacrum B. Rown.

Dear Sir,

The purpose of this letter is to announce my resignation from The Web 2.0, effective as of tomorrow.
This was not an easy decision to make, on my part. The past year has been very rewarding. I’ve enjoyed working for you.

Best regards,
The Lord God Almighty

Dear Sir,

The purpose of this letter is to announce my resignation from The Web 2.0, effective as of tomorrow.
This was not an easy decision to make, on my part. The past 6 months have been very rewarding. I’ve enjoyed working for you.

Best regards,
Charles Stab.

So get this. It’s great. Grey put together a campaign to tell the whole world how cool the Ruhr area of Germany is. And the people of the Ruhr hate it. There’s a big uproar with lots of local businesses sulking and stamping their feet in anger.So Grey tweek and redo the work.

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One of the things you get used to when you’re British and living in Germany are the constant requests to define and explain just what makes British Food the genius that it is. These requests, (loosely camouflaged as a basic desire to improve the incumbent kitchen but it’s obviously jealously) happen daily and after 15 years I’m slowly running out of things to say. I’m running out of words to describe just what makes British food great.

Thank heavens for Krautkrämers “Meat Water”
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As you can see, The Kaiser Edition is back. It’s journey into the bowels of Ad Age’s Power 150 purgatory was rather brief (I can tell you it’s hell down there) but we’re now hovering 5 comfortable places above the 150 (see below).

Anything interesting happen while we were away?

When I set up The Kaiser Edition back in November I decided to put a little built in “self destruct” element that would ensure maximum failure. The basic scenario or idea behind this safety mechanism was linked to Ad Age’s Power 150 and how well The Kaiser Edition was doing within it – if The Kaiser Edition makes it into the Top 150, The Kaiser Edition stops. As you can see this blog now has a ranking of 151, so we’re on the verge of self destructing and the team are making frantic preparations for our inevitable Armageddon party.