Disqus - Friends of adrianho

Re: Feelings

Charles Edward Frith — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:50:40 -0000

I'm consistently surprised that the claim 'This is a war on terror' is unfailingly unrecognised as Oxymoronic I.E. Could one use terror to divert/prevent a war. Using war strategies against a group of people who are essentially galvanised at the extremist end to prefer death over life means that traditional war strategies, tactics and hardware will never work. Unless of course Genocide is your vocabularly. It's not in mine.

Re: Buyer"s Remorse

Charles Edward Frith — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0000

Not that it matters too much about camels lost in translation, as both they and ropes are hard to thread through the eyes of needles and the point is not lost either way.

Heaven however does take credit cards for those who have borrowed heavily to give generously.

Re: Senior Brand Marketer Bans Ad-Recall Research

Charles Edward Frith — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:02:47 -0000

Crucially I've yet to see a client acknowledge that post campaign ad recall is too low and recognise that the more creative executions all too often championed by the agency is the most effective solution.

In addition it's all too often the case that the marketing objective is invariably an arbitrary figure with little or no rationale other than rudimentary analogous data.

Re: The Ethics Of Outing Wrongdoers (On Your Blog)

Charles Edward Frith — Mon, 15 May 2006 05:29:45 -0000

Yawn.

Re: China Is The Next China, Now. Vietnam May Be The Next China Someday.

Charles Edward Frith — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:01:40 -0000

Perhaps this is inappropriate but any auto trend predictions for Vietnam would be very welcome and much appreciated.

Re: Starbury One – The Cheap Shoe

Charles Edward Frith — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:31:51 -0000

Nike haven't been cool for about a decade. Design is OK sometimes but the swoosh kills it. Style aficionados wouldn't be seen dead in them but these Starbury shoes rock with attitude and I'd love a pair please Starbury. cefrith at hotmail dot com if you know your stuff. :)

Re: Kunstler: Winners and Losers

Charles Edward Frith — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:33:52 -0000

Some of your thinking is beautiful.

Re: Becoming a Biker?

Charles Edward Frith — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:38:33 -0000

Again, no injury resulted...is that hemingway..........?

Re: Can I Please Blog Your Private Meeting?

Charles Edward Frith — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:27:48 -0000

Alliteration is a wonky way to demonise the information sharers. If Nielsen have information that they wish to share on a formal transactional basis, why don't they bill accordingly, and not invite erm, say, cough...the bloggers. Talk about not ENGAGING with their target audience. Anybody measuringing this for chatter?

Re: Can I Please Blog Your Private Meeting?

Charles Edward Frith — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:21:28 -0000

Lots of buzz for Nielsen on this one :) Is that called irony?

Re: Dave Winer was right about river reading

Charles Edward Frith — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:40:01 -0000

The Google Reader is so good that it has diminished my appetite to try out other feed readers as I usually like to try out competitive software. I'm a fan.

Re: Are Chavs the New Mods?

Charles Edward Frith — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:12:12 -0000

Great post. I see that Lady Sovereign is about to break it Stateside with Jay Z signing her to the label. The first Brit ever. This got me thinking that movements which emerge from the working classes (sorry if that sounds antedeluvian) might coallesce as more 'romantic' movements later but anything that starts out from within the intellectual elite might only ever see it's principles as diluted or a dumbing down of it's original principles.

Maybe we were all wrong about Chav culture.

Re: Jay Leno’s Eco Jet

Charles Edward Frith — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:15:54 -0000

How long would that thing take to drive say the President of the United States from D.C. to Kyoto for a quick melting ice recap?

Lemme guess. Chrysler are going to make the Viper eco friendly and fibre glass hummers are the next big thing.

Re: Jay Leno's Eco Jet

Charles Edward Frith — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:15:54 -0000

How long would that thing take to drive say the President of the United States from D.C. to Kyoto for a quick melting ice recap?

Lemme guess. Chrysler are going to make the Viper eco friendly and fibre glass hummers are the next big thing.

Re: Josh Wolf’s acceptance, from jail

Charles Edward Frith — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:11:24 -0000

That's really kind of you Robert to make people aware of Josh's award win as well asw his predicament. All to often in this tech/software bubble I see that money drives a lot of heated discourse but so little about the fight that people like Josh are fighting for keeping the freedoms of speech that have been sadly diminished and removed in recent years. Habeas Corpus being one that doesn't mean a lot to Silicon valley but sure would if this was the Wiemar Republic we were potentially facing. Which indeed we may be.

Re: Google To Help Doctors Diagnose?

Charles Edward Frith — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:52:01 -0000

Those of us who live in countries where Western trained practitioners are not allowed wouldn't dream on NOT checking symptons, doctors diagnosis (2nd opinions are de rigeur) AND prescriptiona. Google is invaluable for this.

Re: Islamic Jihad in Indonesia

Charles Edward Frith — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:40:46 -0000

These pictures are curiously poor quality. As if they were quite old. I find this post is the perfect material to stir up religious hatred from the Christians against Islam as the neo conservative forces would wish to happen. I also want to emphasise that as a traveller to Indonesia I've never come across this kind of news. I'm not saying it's not true. I am saying you are being manipulated. Clear your mind weigh up the evidence. Think once. Think Twice.

Re: Will it blend an iPod?

Charles Edward Frith — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:31:52 -0000

Yeah why don't we show these videos to the estimated Billion people who get by on 1 dollar a day. We could film there faces and upload them to Youtube while we boast how many antibiotics an iPod could buy. Please think about the difference between cool and visually arresting. One iPod filmed for fun? Fine... a whole genre of the West's disdain for material value?

I'm not convinced

Re: Wigs Awaaaaaaay

Charles Edward Frith — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:37:13 -0000

Nice rug.

Re: ShoeMoney, You Just Got Served!

Charles Edward Frith — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:14:16 -0000

If I say something slanderous in Thailand and then fly to Los Angeles next week. Am I breaking the law? Will I get hit for a 20 buck fine too? ;)

Re: The Blogospheres on Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty, Bullying and Racism

Charles Edward Frith — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:14:15 -0000

Life doesn't always have a happy ending but Shilpa winning big brother is a very happy outcome for both Indians and the United Kingdom. I don't watch TV but I've been following this story in the press from Bangkok where I live. I feel good about the result.

Re: The Blogospheres on Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty, Bullying and Racism

Charles Edward Frith — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:14:15 -0000

Re: Sorry IMified Chaps

Charles Edward Frith — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:08:30 -0000

Google alerts my dear chap. Any mention of a subject that needs tracking and it's in the mail box. I use it all the time. Or.. could be this social media thing too!

Re: Research is great, but Twitter is shipping…

Charles Edward Frith — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:28:45 -0000

Dare I say it. There are too many good ideas out there at the moment. Unless it's lifechanging I'd advise people to back a great product rather than start a new product. There's no hurry for your idea to be launched just yet. And if it can be duplicated, well it's not so revolutionary than is it?

Just my view. I can barely keep up with neat stuff.

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Re: Research is great, but Twitter is shipping…

Charles Edward Frith — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:08:30 -0000

Calm down, judging by the number of times Google is criticized for messing up we are nowhere near to an omniscient brain. Truth is that everything has a very complex context. This comment makes no sense if it's carved into tree. Take away the previous comment and it just looks random. Does that help?