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)
Jul 31st
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)
Jul 31st
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)
Jul 31st
Charles Edward Frith: cranking up the boney m (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Jul 31st
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...
Jul 31st
The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]...
charlesfrith says: I’m backing Boney. (Its a campaign badge too) (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Jul 31st
Lead us not into cyber-temptation as missionaries... →
Jul 31st
Fad Marketing's Balancing Act →
Jul 31st
I Love You Miss Jackson (tantramar)
charlesfrith says: Great track and a great voice Charlie. (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Jul 31st
Evolution of a bad idea (CMM News)
charlesfrith says: Jesus. That’s shit. (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Jul 30th
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)
Jul 30th
Pushing a brand's values →
How brands can differentiate though values instead of chasing dollars.
Jul 30th
digg - Submit Item (www.digg.com)
charlesfrith says: How brands can differentiate though values instead of chasing dollars. (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Jul 30th
Punk Planning: Purity Values →
Jul 30th
Jul 30th
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...
Jul 30th
Charles Edward Frith: perezhilton - rome burning while nero fiddles? (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Jul 30th
Advertising Age - Account Planners at a Crossroads →
Jul 30th
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)
Jul 30th
Food of the Gods →
South Indian Cusine. Dosas.
Jul 30th
Charles Edward Frith: yawning again (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Jul 30th
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...
Jul 30th
Punk Planning: Food of the Gods →
Jul 30th
Faris Yakob + Iain Tait = 2.0 →
Jul 30th
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)
Jul 30th
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.”
Jul 30th
Charles Edward Frith: yauatcha. chinese food that is better than anything from shanghai. period (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Jul 30th
Charles Edward Frith: overheard: ‘well its not a real donkey i’m hurting in 2nd life’ (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Jul 30th
Charles Edward Frith: yawning (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Jul 29th
Adweek Magazine In Print - Advertising News -... →
Jul 29th
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...
Jul 29th
Silence the Stain (ANGUS WHINES)
charlesfrith says: Great! (via coComments by charlesfrith)
Jul 29th
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)
Jul 29th
Charles Edward Frith: “if I was the queen, this would be my annus horribilis” - audrey (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Jul 29th
Open (finds, minds, conversations)...: Useful... →
Jul 29th
Charles Edward Frith: half way through Sisyphean ironing pile (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Jul 29th
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)
Jul 29th
Charles Edward Frith: placating a furious audrey…gulp! (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Jul 28th
Pilgrimage to Passchendaele, a killing field... →
Jul 28th
Mining of Data Prompted Fight Over Spying - New... →
Jul 28th
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...
Jul 28th
US accuses Saudis of telling lies about Iraq |... →
Jul 28th
ABC News: EXCLUSIVE: Army to Punish Seven Officers... →
Jul 28th
Goodbye to Newspapers? - The New York Review of... →
Jul 28th
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)
Jul 28th
Charles Edward Frith: @samismail sausage, blackpudding, egg, grilled tomtoes, sliced bread :) (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Jul 27th
Owning the Ad →
Jul 27th
Charles Edward Frith: eating and reading a breakfast of champions (via Twitter / Charles Edward Frith)
Jul 27th
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...
Jul 27th
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...
Jul 27th