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"Lovely Rob. Great comment and one I'm pleased to receive. I agree with your first comment. Magazines like many newspapers will likely view this as a revenue fixer. Thus turning away from their core job of providing the content in the first place. Quality writing, great photography, informed opinion and painstakingly put together. Magazines are the new wave under pressure but I think their business model is more robust. Unlike immediacy which newspapers are being decimated by. I don't need to buy a magazine on the day it's published. It's about quality not distribution and speed of delivery. Yes they're under pressure but like you point out it's not about tech really is it. But could this be the think end of the wedge between magazines and then newspapers. Is it the future of e readers? I'd probably like to use one to determine that though I'm really enjoying my 'forced' reading on the ferry ride these days. I could fire up the netbook but I've started to enjoy a discerning analogue..." - Charles Frith

"We are hostage of transit, in cars and buses that are ambulatory cells in slow march, wasting our and many passengers' precious time." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

Moral sensibility is why people will suffer for their beliefs, and why acts of principled self-sacrifice are so powerful. - Charles Frith

Just watched something about Mary - Charles Frith from Blip.fm

"Eliot Spitzer, Frank Parnoy, and William Black calls for AIG to put non-privileged e-mails, accounting documents, and financial models on line to allow for an “open source” investigation." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

Sometimes they laughed too long. - Charles Frith

"That the laugh track has fallen into the hands of upstart outsiders is the sort of irony that deserves a mechanical chuckle of its own." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

"No, the opportunity is not to create the next great website for modeling bottom-up community activity, but to go and actually do the stuff. It is to participate the public school, work towards alternative energy possibilities, design and install bicycle lanes, argue at work for equal pay for women, assist local agriculture projects, develop complementary currencies and non-profit credit unions." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

“It has too much of a petit bourgeoisie quality … They’re missing the big problem, which is capitalism. Capitalism is what configures the state and forms of thought. Marx and Engels put it very directly; they said in every epoch the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas. Well, what’s the ruling class? Is it the meat-eaters? No. The ruling class is capitalist. - Charles Frith

"“It has too much of a petit bourgeoisie quality … They’re missing the big problem, which is capitalism. Capitalism is what configures the state and forms of thought. Marx and Engels put it very directly; they said in every epoch the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas. Well, what’s the ruling class? Is it the meat-eaters? No. The ruling class is capitalist." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

"Labour remains convinced that a “digital Britain” can best be served by government regulation and observation of cyberspace, despite the fact that nearly all the examples of best practice that went into the strategy were online citizen initiatives that had been created in somebody’s living room—with no government interference." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

"Maybe 7-8 hours a day, which means 1/3 of the day! I think it's normal for us to be passive with mass media" - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

“In an era of management by the numbers, many American managers … are reluctant to invest heavily in the development of new manufacturing processes,” - Charles Frith

Ossum - Charles Frith from Blip.fm

Dangerous. Robots in the skies. - Charles Frith from Blip.fm

"Its bread and circuses Didouchka. The Romans new that all you need is to fill peoples bellies and give sport to watch and the real issues fly over their heads." - Charles Frith

http://www.charlesfrith.com/2009... - Charles Frith from Blip.fm

"The one who didn't die biting the rest room blue carpet with his exposed bum in the air." - Charles Frith

"The king's response was to remove his most prominent critic, Shaikh Sa'ad Al Shithri, from the Council of Senior Scholars, to which he had recently appointed him." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

Raytheon’s Universal Control System (UCS) is an unmanned aerial system (UAS) "cockpit" that improves operator awareness and efficiency, while providing the ability to control multiple unmanned aircraft, and reduce potential accidents.[9] - Charles Frith

"We are committed to providing innovative technology solutions for warfighters and all of our customers," said Jay Smart, chief technology officer of Raytheon's intelligence and information systems business. - Charles Frith

"That's not to say that they won't try – high-end hotels, we're looking at you – but now the notion seems to be that if WiFi is offered at all, it better be free." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

"Very useful." - Charles Frith

""I just don't buy it that Oracle will be a good home for MySQL," he wrote in a post on his blog." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

"“Too often,” says Niederhauser, “I see journalists who parachute into Beijing for a few days seeking out performers who will feed them controversial quotes.” The motivations of these bands, he says, are not so easily classified. “The music scene is not about revolution right now, but about embracing an alternative, creative and open lifestyle in Beijing — something that China desperately needs.”" - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

"The main role of that $115 platter—the only three-digit thing on the menu—is to make everything else near it look like a relative bargain, Poundstone sa" - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

great article, migh try and write a counterpoint about pound shops in east london - Ian Crocombe

They have menus? - Charles Frith

"If we all live like the average Rwandan, the Earth could support 18billion people; live like the average Indian and that capacity falls to 15billion. But if we want to enjoy the living standards of the average American, then the Earth can only support 1.5billion." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

"After thinking about it for nearly two years and trying out various exemptions, the Home Office has refused to release a confidential assessment of its anti-drugs strategy requested by Transform, a pressure group. The reason is that next March the National Audit Office (NAO), a public-spending watchdog, is due to publish a report of its own on local efforts to combat drugs. The Home Office says that to have two reports about drugs out at the same time might confuse the public, and for this reason it is going to keep its report under wraps." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

"According to Myhrvold: "We're going through a second evolution." He believes future generations will have as little understanding for our concepts of time and space as we have for those of the Middle Ages. As an assistant to Stephen Hawking, Myhrvold witnessed the birth of A Brief History of Time and a new cosmology. "In the past," he says, "astronomers built tools, and now the bio-computer experts are at last building their new tools."" - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet

"In some cases, the government appears to be engaged in deception. The Boston Globe recently quoted a Massachusetts district attorney as saying that some police officers were going undercover on Facebook as part of their investigations." - Charles Frith from Bookmarklet