July 2007
Charles Edward Frith: deleting buzzfeed (low brow blogging) widget and adding the Kiva widget. Nice one Doug just spotted that. thanks (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
iPhone v Segway ... the Tie is Broken (Flagged For...
charlesfrith says: Nice shot. I reckon he could use a wee bit of exercise though! (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Restaurant: Chennai Dosa (CroydonLife)
charlesfrith says: Well as a very frequent visitor I think they’re awesome. http://charlesfrith.blogspot.com/2007/07/food-of-gods.html (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Charles Edward Frith: cranking up the boney m (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
OK, this is a Todd friendly Sunday (Studioriley)
charlesfrith says: Thats an interesting observation about the music/style worlds colliding on the show in the first Youtube clip. I don’t think that could or would happen now as there is a plurality which has somehow morphed into sameness. Not sure if I’ve captured what I wanted to say but no harm trying! There was a good feature in the Observer last weekend about rare footage making...
The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]...
charlesfrith says: I’m backing Boney. (Its a campaign badge too) (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Lead us not into cyber-temptation as missionaries... →
Fad Marketing's Balancing Act →
I Love You Miss Jackson (tantramar)
charlesfrith says: Great track and a great voice Charlie. (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Evolution of a bad idea (CMM News)
charlesfrith says: Jesus. That’s shit. (via coComments by charlesfrith)
New Smirnoff Epic Really Delivers (Scamp)
charlesfrith says: Nice one Scamp. I hope Smirnoff have thought through the tremendous opportunity for branded utility ideas that could really differentiate this brand. Cleaning up the environment is the only way to go for a label that wants to own purity. (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Pushing a brand's values →
How brands can differentiate though values instead of chasing dollars.
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charlesfrith says: How brands can differentiate though values instead of chasing dollars. (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Punk Planning: Purity Values →
Purity Values →
I remember vividly Mary Stow at HHCL & Partners urging me to push really hard on the VALUES of the clients we have in advertising and I’ve carried that important lesson with me for many years. All too frequently many ‘wannabe’ brands share only one common tangible value and that is shareholder return, or chasing money in plain language if you wish. There’s nothing...
Charles Edward Frith: perezhilton - rome burning while nero fiddles? (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Advertising Age - Account Planners at a Crossroads →
Last week i had two contrasting (Through the...
charlesfrith says: Hi Oliver. This post is always worth reading when we start talking about big ideas. http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/06/the_tyranny_of_.html I’d recommend transmedia planning too. (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Food of the Gods →
South Indian Cusine. Dosas.
Charles Edward Frith: yawning again (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Brand management, the Google way →
Google has never advertised on TV, and actually don’t do any brand marketing at all. David Lawee, the Google VP of marketing figures he has the easiest job in marketing because all of his decisions revolve around answering one simple question: what’s best for the user? (This reminds me of one of the chapters in the Made to Stick book, on the Southwest Airlines philosophy, in which...
Punk Planning: Food of the Gods →
Faris Yakob + Iain Tait = 2.0 →
Food of gods (Punk Planning)
charlesfrith says: Yep. Charles ‘low key/modest’ Frith they call me in Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi. Well maybe not the New Delhi Gymkhana Club John. That was straight out of an EM Forster Novel. To be seen to be believed ;) Glad to have shared the delights of South India to you Chimpster :) (via coComments by charlesfrith)
A-List Technology Bloggers: What Are They Good... →
“It was hilarious when they first discovered YouTube or MySpace, and it’s even funnier to see them all up in a tizzy about Facebook now like it’s a new thing. It’s as if they don’t realize they’re the ones who have been missing from the scene, not the other way around. It’s just so uninteresting.”
Charles Edward Frith: yauatcha. chinese food that is better than anything from shanghai. period (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Charles Edward Frith: overheard: ‘well its not a real donkey i’m hurting in 2nd life’ (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Charles Edward Frith: yawning (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Adweek Magazine In Print - Advertising News -... →
Food of the Gods →
I first came to live in London via Norbury, and so in a whimsical way even though I’ve lived all over the capital, including Belsize Park, Bloomsbury, Shepherds Bush, Camden, Clapham and more, there’s a piece of me which always be a Sarf London boy. Recently its the massive South Indian community in this part of London that is pricking up my planning barometer trend antenna. On my...
Silence the Stain (ANGUS WHINES)
charlesfrith says: Great! (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Copywrong® (sinSign[dot]com)
charlesfrith says: Nice blog. I have a friend who I’d like to bring their attention to this post. (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Charles Edward Frith: “if I was the queen, this would be my annus horribilis” - audrey (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Open (finds, minds, conversations)...: Useful... →
Charles Edward Frith: half way through Sisyphean ironing pile (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Great Quotes for Planners #36 -a back-handed...
charlesfrith says: Yep. Be at a Louis Vuitton store when it opens in the morning in Causeway Bay (or anywhere on Hong Kong) and ask yourself (or indeed them) why the Japanese tourists are queuing up for LV goods. (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Charles Edward Frith: placating a furious audrey…gulp! (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Pilgrimage to Passchendaele, a killing field... →
Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over Spying - New... →
When Kevin Rose says you’re a rockstar… →
Wow, Kevin Rose has a list of people you might want to add when you are on Pownce (which continues growing faster than Twitter or Jaiku) and he says I’m a video rockstar on it. I wonder if he’ll say that after he sees the next Fast Company column I wrote where I talk up Pownce competitor Twitter? Unfortunately that was written right before Pownce came out. Sigh. I hate writing things for dead...
US accuses Saudis of telling lies about Iraq |... →
ABC News: EXCLUSIVE: Army to Punish Seven Officers... →
Goodbye to Newspapers? - The New York Review of... →
Scared of the net? (Johnnie Moore's Weblog)
charlesfrith says: The GOP are much better at crafting a party line and holding a monologue. Command and control is their territory. (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Charles Edward Frith: @samismail sausage, blackpudding, egg, grilled tomtoes, sliced bread :) (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Owning the Ad →
Charles Edward Frith: eating and reading a breakfast of champions (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Dirty Brands (Servant of Chaos)
charlesfrith says: Hey Gavin. The link to my comment doesn’t work so if you don’t mind I’ll cut and paste it here. Thanks Yes engagement is a part of a relationship and the love metaphor is a bloody marvelous one when thinking about relationship with brands. The idea that we as people should be wedded to a brand or have a permanent break up is the sort of marketing nonsense that...
the ultimate measure →
Have had some brilliant conversations this week on the nature of blogging.
An article I found mentioned that only 75 Australians are in the Technorati top 25,000 (Gavin and I some of those 75) but that seemed to make the journalist (and Ross Dawson) believe that the current state of blogging is some cause for concern.
Since when did blogging become a competitive sport????
I’m a believer...
