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why recomple a kernel ??
I saw a similar post abt recompiling kernel in slackware. My question is that why to recomplie the kernel if it is working correctly.what are the factor that lead to recompile the kernel for ur system . One answer could be erformance factors since compiling kernel as per ur system conf would lever performance benefits ( is this is true ??) . Please anyone put more light on this subject .
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If all is working well, then there is no need to recompile a kernel unless of course you just feel like doing it. Compiling your own kernel means that you can have a small kernel optimised for your hardware and there aren't many unwanted modules or features in your kernel.
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my clan was hiding was going to have a meeting. This city may be large, but I know
it like the back of my hand. I turned the corner on 7th street, the
alley a few steps away. I walked in front of the entrance when I was noticed.
"Scar" Venom screamed "Scar come here"
I slowly started walking towards the end of the alley. My
cloak falling flowing me. My hair fell out of my hood. My eyes were adjusting
to the small amount of light in the alley, compared to the lights of the city.
"Scar" Venom said "Raider wishes to see you". I froze in my
tracks and starred at him. Why would my leader want to see me? Venom pointed to
the right corner at the end of the alley way.
I walked slowly towards him. I let down my hood and watched
my long blonde hair fall. I was dangerous. Everyone who saw me thought I was
mentally insane. But that was only the cover up for who I really am. I'm short
but terrifying. The only people who wouldn't run from me is my clan.
I walked in front of the stack of trash cans that was
Raiders throne. I couldn't see him well, but I can see his dark eyes looking at
He spoke first.
"Kerri" he said "Nice to see you again"
"It's Scar" I hissed. I felt Venom and the others cringe. They
never heard anyone yell at Raider, their leader, before by a member of their
own clan. I resisted a smile. They knew I was more powerful than they were. I was
almost as powerful as my own leader.
"Your name is so beautiful though-"
"No its not" I screamed cutting him off. "Never say that
again" I stared at him. A breeze blew by, whipping my hair and cloak in the
wind. My eyes became a brighter red. I never took my eyes away. I felt his eyes
on me. "What do you want?"
"I want you" he began "To do a very important task" he said.
I saw a smile appear on his face.
"What is this task" I asked slowly. I watched him closely. As
he opened his mouth sirens went off, and lights were shining down the alley. People
were blocking the alley with barriers. I saw guns a gun point. They were going
to shoot at shoot at us.
"My friends we must leave quickly" Raider said. We nodded,
and jumped towards the sky. We landed on top of the building just as they
started shooting down the alley.
The wind was blowing my hair with it. The city lights were a
strange site. They were dim. Most of them were out. The brightest lights I could see were from
the police cars below.
"Kerri, come here" Raider said.
"It's Scar" I hissed under my breath. I walked over to him. I
felt Venoms eyes watching me.
"Kerri. I want you to cross the Atlantic to France. You will
be bringing a small child. Her name is Alena. She is 10 only 10 years old, but she's
very powerful. Bring her back to me as soon as you can" he explained. He pulled
out 3 plan tickets. 1 ticket for me to go to France. 2 for us to get back.
"I will do all I can to bring her back to you" I said. "Where
is her location?"
"Paris" he said. "In the oldest bar"
"Yes Raider" I said. A smile crossed my face. I put my hood
on my head and started jumping on the buildings towards the airport. I turned
back to see Venom waving at me. I turned back and continued on.


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All workplace death is unacceptable, and we must demand protection.
Can't define worldview of a president in just 100 days.
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Translated A Son Soon by Xu Nuo for the Manchester Royal Exchange's BIRTH Festival.
It Never Rains on National Day shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize.
UK edition of The Borrowed by Chan Ho-Kei now available, American/ Canadian editions out in 2017.
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Translation of Zhang Yueran's 'Lake' in the Brooklyn Rail.
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Alan Davison is a professor of literature and language at Westminster College in Salt Lake City.
"Blurtso doesn't feel what he should"
I guess I should be bored in this field, thought Blurtso. I guess I should be restless and anxious and troubled. I guess I should be worried about the things I'm missing, all the excitement taking place without me. I guess I should be depressed. I guess I should feel that standing in this field is the worst thing in the world. Yes, thought Blurtso, that's what I should feel…
Blurtso solves the riddle of Rodin's "Le penseur"
"Blurtso prepares his morning juice"
"Blurtso outsmarts the devil"
Hello, said Blurtso. Hello, said the devil. Come in, said Blurtso. Thank you, said the devil. I wasn't sure you'd come, said Blurtso. I wasn't sure you'd be here, said the devil. Here I am, said Blurtso. And I, said the devil. The bet is, said Blurtso, to see who can eat the most pumpkin pies. Yes, said the devil. And if I win? said Blurtso. You will have an endless supply of pumpkin pies. And if I lose? said Blurtso. You will relinquish your soul. Very well, said Blurtso, shall we begin with the pie on the table? Yes, said the devil, that looks like a perfectly good pie. Would you like to go first? asked Blurtso. No, said the devil, I wouldn't dream of it. Very well, said Blurtso, sitting down to the pie. Blurtso cut the pie, slowly, into six equal slices, then proceeded to eat them, one by one, relishing every pumpkin-filled bite. When he finished he licked the tin and pushed it toward the devil. That's enough for me, said Blurtso. Only one? said the devil, that's no competition at all. Perhaps, said Blurtso. O.k., said the devil, now it's my turn. Go ahead, said Blurtso. Where's my pie? asked the devil. I'm sorry, said Blurtso, I ate the last one.
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I want to help, said Blurtso, but I've got to be honest about my abilities. Let me see, he said, I know that I'm not very good at carrying heavy objects, I tire easily and I recuperate slowly. I don't read and I don't write, and my hoofs are good for little more than standing on, which I prefer to avoid, if there is a patch of grass nearby. Hmmmm…. my nose is quite good for sniffing, and my ears are quite good for hearing, so I can usually hear when someone is asking someone to give them a hand with something, but of course I don't have hands and my hoofs are good for little more than standing on, which usually isn't much help. I'm pretty good company, I guess, if you're someone who doesn't move around a lot, or you just need someone to nap with. I'm quite good at that, I believe, taking naps that is. I can take a nap at almost any time and almost any place. And I must be good at other things too, but I can't remember what they are, because I don't have a very good memory. But I know I am happy to be of help. I'm quite sure of that. I'm very happy to be of help.


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Marco was annoyed. And I mean pissed. The stupid woman had managed to steal his weapons!
"Oi! What do you think your doing, eh? Those are nothing to do with you, and they're more valuable than any of you are to your families!" he shouted, anger flowing from his voice like water down a cliff. And then some wild-cat came flying at him, attempting to smash her fist into his head. Instinctively, he rolled back and came back to his feet, squatting low. He slowly backed down the aisle, coming to the driver.
"Please, stop the bus. I'll be back in a bit." Beth grumbled something to herself, but stopped anyway. Running back down the road, he collected his possessions, checking each obsessively for damage. Luckily, they'd all landed on the springy emerald grass.
He ran back to the bus after half an hour, and found it stifling, and the harsh smell of the smoke assaulting his nose. He looked around for the wild-woman that had attacked him. He turned to Beth, thanking her, but discretely secreting monkshood along the blades of his hidden knives. Turning back to the people on the bus, he took things in. All the heights, hair colours, little things that suggested personal details - some people wore rings, some jewellery that denoted faith. And a conspicuous lack of the same on others.
He found the woman/girl that had attacked him and approached her.
"What goes on between that vampire, or indeed anyone, on this bus is nothing to do with you, unless it's you I have a.. Disagreement with. Understood?" he glowered at her, his cold eyes piercing through her soul. He saw pain and guilt in her eyes, but he didn't care. If he needed, he would rip the wounds open, stab at them, and then add a little poison just to be sure he'd completed the job. She wouldn't be safe if she crossed him.


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THE 1907 building at 50 West 54th Street was, from shortly after its beginnings, the City Athletic Club, a social organization created by Jews excluded from established city clubs. Last year, the club disbanded and sold the building to the Museum of Modern Art, which now owns what was at first to have been St. Margaret's School for Girls.
A quarter century ago, the building was flagged for landmarks consideration, but no action was taken, and the museum has filed plans to strip the original masonry and construct a new glass facade.
At the start of the 20th century, the West 50's off Fifth Avenue was a center for private schools, with Spence, Browning and others in residence. In 1906, George Dickson of Toronto bought two old brownstones at 48 and 50 West 54th Street and had his architect, Robert T. Lyons, design an eight-story school building. Lyons mixed limestone and white brick to produce a Beaux-Arts style building similar in detailing to his much more famous St. Urban apartments of 1906, at 89th Street and Central Park West.
An advertisement in The New York Times in August 1906 promised that St. Margaret's School for Girls, ''a high class residential and day school,'' would open in October 1906 with classes in music, voice, art, physical culture and domestic science, along with traditional academics. Dickson was listed as director; little information can be found about him in New York area records, although the ad noted that he had a master's degree.Continue reading the main story
But the school never opened. In late 1907, with the building completed, Dickson sold the property to the mining investor Solomon R. Guggenheim, who in the 1930's would establish what became the Guggenheim Museum. Guggenheim leased the building to a new group, the City Athletic Club, which The Times described as ''stepping toward the supremacy of the New York Athletic Club and Irish-Americans.''
The New York Athletic Club was the king of athletics in New York, fielding champion amateur competitors in many sports. Its typical member, it was widely acknowledged, was Roman Catholic and of Irish extraction. As with many New York clubs, Jews were rarely admitted as members.
After interior alterations by Herts & Tallant and Albert S. Gottlieb, the City Athletic Club opened in December 1909, with two bowling alleys in the basement, a double-height dining room at the rear of the first floor, a 60,000-gallon swimming pool, Turkish baths, a barber shop, squash courts and a running track with 23 laps to the mile. An account in Architects' and Builders' magazine described the library as paneled in oak and the billiard room walls as covered in Japanese grass cloth.
The organizers were typically successful businessmen, including the copper mining operator Frederick Lewisohn, who was the president; Jesse Straus, later president of Macy's; and Frank R. Slazenger, a sporting goods dealer whose cousin Albert established the company known for its racquets, cricket bats and other sports equipment.
The distinction between Jewish and Christian clubs slumbered pretty much undisturbed until the civil rights movement of the 1950's. In 1962, Mayor Robert F. Wagner quit the New York Athletic Club during a dispute on whether it discriminated based on race or religion. A 1963 article in The Times said that there was now ''at least one Jewish member'' in three of the top 10 ''prestige clubs'' -- the New York Yacht Club, the University Club and the Century, the club the article said had always had Jewish members. It noted that the City Athletic Club and the Harmonie Club, at 60th Street off Fifth Avenue, were Jewish organizations. (The ensuing decades have wrought further changes in club policies.)
IN the 1970's a survey of Midtown West by the Landmarks Preservation Commission identified 65 buildings described as ''the highest priority for the commission's attention and review.'' They included Rockefeller Center; the Gotham Hotel, at 55th and Fifth; and the CBS Building at 52nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas. Most of the high-priority buildings have been designated, although a few were destroyed, including the palatial George Blumenthal mansion at 23 West 52nd, once home to the Museum of Modern Art bookstore but since demolished for the museum's expansion.
The survey included the City Athletic Club in this group, singling out its ''opulent ornament based on the decorative style of mid-18th century France.'' But the commission has never acted on the building. And Robert B. Tierney, the commission's chairman, says that it has no plans to consider the structure.
In recent years, membership at the City Athletic Club declined to barely 200. A merger with the Harmonie Club did not work, and attempts to recruit members from the Downtown Athletic Club, which closed in 2001, were not sufficient. Jonathan Rosen, the club's final president, said that its trophies and paraphernalia had been given either to members who won them or to the Jewish Historical Society.
Early this month, Ruth Kaplan, a spokeswoman for the museum, said that it had bought the building with no specific plan, but for possible future growth. But the online permit database at the Department of Buildings shows that the architects Acheson Thornton Doyle filed an alteration application last Dec. 20th for $750,000 worth of work.
The application reads: ''Remove and discard all brick and stone facade cladding and windows. Construct new curtain wall glass mansard, new windows and entry doors.'' The museum received a permit for the work on Dec. 24, but no work has begun.
Ms. Kaplan, asked about the proposed stripping of the original masonry and the construction of a new glass facade, said that it was simply an option the museum is considering.Continue reading the main story


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After that day I had my heart torn out, I spent most of my time in my room, it was good though I guess, I got to practice my violin a lot more. They wanted me to play an instrument that would show off my grace, which was originally the piano, but I just don't have the fingers for it. I find it hard to reach the chords. So, mum suggested this to me.
I'm pretty good at it I think, better than singing anyway. I looked out the window, there was a carriage pulling up outside and my father and mother came out of it. I sighed and returned to my bed, looking up at the silk dress that was laid on the chair in the corner of the room, it was winter so the dress was a pale lilac and blue adorned with ribbons and frilly accents.
I knew that now that mother and father were home it would be time to be going soon and just on time my maid walked in, her name was grace and she was fairly young. Father didn't know that I gave her extra money for her family, but, I don't mind. I never use it anyway.
"Come on, Miss Rose." She called so my father could hear and closed the door behind her, I nodded and sighed moving to slip on my dress. I wasn't as idle as my sisters, I dressed myself mainly, I just needed Grace to lace me up at the back. As she did so and my corset was pulled tightly, followed by my dress, I tried to lighten up.
After the dress I moved to my vanity dresser and sat down, allowing Grace to pull my curls up and tie them with ribbon and what-not. "Tell me, Grace, are you coming with us today? It is the town ball after all. It only happens once every year."
I could see her reflection in the mirror as she nodded, "but I don't have a dress other than the one you see me with now Millie." We were such great friends she didn't just call me Melissa, but I had a nickname too. Grace was my best friend though; she was always there for me, through everything.
"You may borrow one of mine if you wish, we'll just alter it a little," I offered and she shook her head, her hand dropping one of the clips she held.
As she bent to pick them up she replied in a slightly higher pitch, "No Millie! I couldn't."
I sighed, "oh poppycock Grace! You know you can, I don't care about dresses and such you know that!" She nodded and continued pinning up my hair. She knew I was persistent; I'm a good fighter, especially for a just cause.
When she is done and I look like a spoiled princess I walk to my wardrobe and look through the dress, picking out a particularly light pink one which was given to me by my sisters, never liked it of course. I handed it to her, "quick, go and get the servants to edit it for you, quick hurry." I smiled, ushering her out of the room. She grinned, squealed and ran off.
I smiled descending the stairs swiftly after her; I did not talk to anyone as I left for the ball. This was the only time of the year where I could talk to the peasants and not be persecuted for it. I looked forward to it.


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Millions of gamers worldwide have enjoyed the Age of Empires RTS games for more then a decade. All of the games have scored high ratings/reviews and have sold very well (the AoE franchise has sold 20 million copies as of 2009 and was estimated to be worth $500 million).
However, with the closure of Games for Windows Live, Age of Empires Online will no longer be supported and will be removed from the Steam Store. Many fans and players have expressed their fondness to Age of Empires Online and have expressed that they would love to see Age of Empires online to be supported and to be detatched from the GFWL servers.
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I've got some great news for both of us. My fifth book, All About Them, is on press and will officially release on August 16 from Da Capo Press. YOU are a big part of this book which is why I'm sharing the news with you on my blog.
I'm hoping All About Them becomes the instruction manual for getting ahead in a world that's spinning faster and faster and where function is becoming mere cost-of-entry for success. Here's a hint: Being successful will require creating your brand and marketing it in brand new ways for brand new times.
Over the next few months I'm going to tell you all about what's going on with All About Them. I'll introduce you to the concepts discussed in the book and show you lots of ways to get involved; Special programs, social media opportunities, exclusive events, and many other ways to build your brand and help me make a big splash for All About Them.
If we can generate significant upfront interest it will further convince my publisher that my book is going to be a big success and that they should produce more and make sure that it's available from coast-to-coast.
I've sent pre-release copies to business authors who matter and will share their comments with you too. Here's are some very nice words from Tim Sanders, author of Dealstorming and Love Is the Killer App.
"A must read for modern marketers who want to cut through the noise, forge deep connections, and create memorable experiences."
And this from Jeffrey Meshel, author of One Phone Call Away and The Opportunity Magnet.
"A brilliant guide to becoming an icon. Bruce Turkel is the branding expert of branding experts."
I am justifiably proud of my new book. And I'll feel even better when I know people are reading All About Them and using it to build their own brands and build their businesses. Thank you for helping with my brand and thank you — as always — for your warm and gracious support.Published on June 7th, 2016
A recent story on public radio talked about the logistics of pursuing smugglers of coveted black rhino horns. The officer interviewed made the point that the discoveries made in this case also helped uncover smugglers of guns, drugs, and even human traffickers. His point was that the skills needed to bring in the banned aphrodisiac were applicable to smuggling all sorts of things.
In 2014, Uber, the logistics app that facilitates a new type of taxi and limo service, moved into different areas too. The company introduced UberRush, a courier service designed to move stuff instead of people. According to The Washington Post, "The same back-end technology that Uber has built to track drivers and connect them to riders can easily be used to order and follow deliveries. All that changes is the cargo on board and the mode of transportation, a detail around which the company is becoming increasingly agnostic."
Back in 2004 when IBM made their momentous shift from equipment sales to software and systems consulting, it capitalized on the protocols and practices it had constructed to run its previous business model. These proprietary programs became the foundation of what has since become a global business with over $22 billion in revenue. What's more, the new model provides IBM with both higher-margin recurring revenue and reduced volatility.
So what do black rhino horns, Uber's logistics, IBM, and your business have in common? Quite simply, you're sitting on a gold mine of proven protocols that are both marketable and monetizable. The programs and procedures that you have created over the years are exactly what other businesses are looking for.
37 Signals, the creator of Basecamp, was a web design company founded in 1999. But in mid-2004 the company's focus shifted from web design to web application development when they found a significant market for the management software they created to run their own business. The transition was so successful that 37 Signals changed their company name to Basecamp (their first product) to focus entirely on their flagship.
Many successful speakers in the National Speakers Association, from Mikki Williams to Lou Heckler to Patricia Fripp to Doug Stevenson, have taken the things they've learned over their years on the platform and turned them into valuable programs for all the people who want to succeed in the speaking business. Some of their programs teach stage skills, some teach business logistics, and still others are about marketing and promotion. But while all of them are simply a reutilization of proven programs that the practitioners have already used to build their own businesses, each has produced new business opportunities and new revenue streams for their creators – sometimes rivaling or even surpassing the success of the original business they're cribbed from.
The Washington Post says, "Uber foresees – as Amazon and eBay do, too – that the next growth opportunity in a shifting economy isn't facilitating digital marketplaces: it's moving physical stuff. It's figuring out urban logistics in a world where crowded cities will only become more so, where e-commerce is actually making congestion worse, where the rise of 'sharing' has created a need for coordinating the mass joint use of cars, tools, tasks, and dinner." Most importantly, these companies have figured out that what they already know how to do creates valuable practices and unlimited opportunities.
You can take advantage of what you already know, too.
"As the Holiday Season is upon us, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and on those who have helped to shape our business in a most significant way. We truly value our relationship with you and look forward to working with you in the year to come. We wish you a very happy Holiday Season and a New Year filled with peace, love and prosperity."
I haven't actually done business with the company that sent me this sentimental bit of falderal but if I had I don't imagine I'd feel truly valued regardless of their promise that I am.
Don't get me wrong. It's not like a card picked out of a catalog and imprinted with a company name and a mailing label offers much more heartfelt sentiment, especially when the postage comes from a machine and not a stamp. But still.
While I'm busy bashing the holiday spirit with my bah-humbugging, let's not forget gift cards. Believe it or not, gift cards were the most requested holiday gifts again this year, specifically, cards from Visa, Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Wal-Mart, Target, and Starbucks. Besides echoing the "I did as little as possible" sentiment of generic e-mail holiday greetings, gift cards both telegraph a complete lack of interest in the recipient's interests, taste, etc. as well as confirming the giver's complete lack of imagination, enterprise, and thoughtfulness.
Sure the cards allow the receiver to buy whatever they want and certainly eliminate the concern about what to do with the ugly sweater, foolish gadget or inappropriate gag gift, but they also negate the carefully chosen book, the delicious hand baked cookies, and the breathless "how did you know I wanted that?" or "I LOVE it!!" response that a little thought and enterprise generates.
Of course asking for gift cards is even more bah humbug loathsome than giving them. For some odd reason, people who would never think twice about begging for money on a street corner have no shame about asking for spare change as long as it's digitally transferred on a little plastic sheet. Why not just have friends and family members send money towards your car loan or mortgage payment? Or better yet, just give them your bank's routing number and have them make a direct deposit directly into your account. That would be easier for everyone.
From a branding point of view, gift giving is not only a great way to show your clients, customers, coworkers, and cohorts how much they mean to you but also the perfect way to express a little bit of your authentic self in your gifts and greetings. Regardless of the amount of money you spend, the effort you make and the thought you contribute is what tells your recipients exactly what you think — or don't think — of them.
When I was in college, moving into the dorms was an arduous ritual.
First we'd set up our stereos. Of course they were enormous – mine was comprised of big JBL speakers, a separate Marantz amp and McIntosh pre-amp, a Pioneer turntable and Aiwa cassette deck. The system cost me an entire summer job's pay and if I was paying by the pound it's no wonder why it was so expensive.
I also had a couple of apple crates full of records (remember those?) and boxes of tapes.
Along with the stereo, I had a typewriter, an alarm clock, an SLR camera with lenses and a shoebox full of photos. I didn't have a TV but my roommate did, and that took up even more room. My clothes — a few pair of jeans, some tee shirts, and a down jacket — probably took up the least amount of space.
Today's college student has all those functions and data (music, photos, etc.) stuffed into their four-pound laptop. In fact, with a couple of duffel bags stuffed full of clothes and a laptop and cell phone tossed in a backpack, they're ready for school.
Today I needed a storyboard drawn up for a commercial we just wrote. All the art directors in my office were busy so I went online, uploaded the rough sketches we'd drawn, and posted the assignment along with my budget, deadline, and specific requirements. Within hours I had estimates from artists in Georgia, Indonesia, Mumbai, and more places around the world.
The other day I wanted something changed on my blog site. I sent an email to Werner, my blog master in Germany, and showed him the change. It was 5 PM EST here at home so I figured I'd hear from Werner the next day, after all it was 11 PM there. Instead Werner responded right away and said he'd have the programmer make the change immediately. "Where's the programmer?" I typed. I assumed he was somewhere in Eastern Europe or Asia. "Ohio," Werner responded. "It's only the afternoon there," "he'll do it right away."
When I leave the office in the evening, sometimes I take my laptop, sometimes I take my iPad, and sometimes I don't take anything at all. Of course we've got a computer at home and all of my company's files are stored on the cloud so they're accessible wherever I am. No more running back to the office in the middle of the night or on weekends to retrieve a document I need to work on. And even though I work most weekends, I can't remember the last time I went into the office on a Saturday or Sunday even though that used to be a weekly occurrence. In fact, my wife and I just got back from a wonderful overseas vacation and you might have noticed that this blog went out on time just the same. Besides pre-scheduling the postings online, a Wi-Fi hookup was all I needed to keep everything running smoothly.
I just moved my enormous music collection from the hard drive in my office to ITunes Match, Apple's cloud-based program. This way, no matter where I am, I have all my songs available. This comes in handy not just when I have a hankering to hear something specific but when we're at band practice and someone wants to hear a particular version of a particular song. Of course, with most songs available on YouTube anyway, I can access them anywhere I can get a Wi-Fi or cellular signal. Needless to say, the stacks and stacks and stacks of CDs in my office and at home are just taking up space and collecting dust. If I knew someone who actually wanted a couple thousand rock, blues, and classical CDs, I'd burn them all and happily ship them off.
The more we interact with the mobile world, the less we need bricks and mortar. These days, BestBuy has become a showroom for Amazon and it's not unusual to see customers in the aisle scanning SKU numbers into their smart phones to check for lower prices online. Online bill pay keeps us out of banks and post offices. Digital downloads to our iPads and Kindles keep us out of bookstores. NetFlix, iTunes, and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Demonoid keep us out of movie theaters.
As I've asked here so many times before, WTF??!! (Where's The Future?). Clearly, legions of old-school face-to-face (F2F) businesses are going to go the way of Borders, Circuit City, and more. But there's another, less intuitive opportunity. The analog activities that can't be replaced by digital experiences — gardening, sewing, participatory sports, acoustic music making, cooking, travel, and more — are going to see a startling resurgence. Sure, those activities will be enhanced by the online world — downloadable patterns for knitting or Web-enabled music lessons, for example. But as the world continues to move to a ubiquitous high-tech environment, high-touch will become all the more important and profitable.Published on June 24th, 2012
Someone sent me an article that asked successful CEOs what they would rather do if they weren't in their current positions. Doctor? Lawyer? Indian Chief? No, everyone wants to be a rock star.
Guitar Center has built an enormous business selling guitars and amps to musicians and wannabes who were raised on 60's & 70's rock and roll and want to live the dream for themselves. Some of these folks find satisfaction in learning to play their new instruments and some give up after a lesson or two. But I'll bet odds are that the overwhelming majority of them never reach rock star status.
For years and years my musician friends and I have been playing in garage bands and getting gigs at bars and festivals. But regardless of how much fun we've had, none of us have become rock stars either.
About six years ago, Phil, Andy, and I, all members of different bands, were at a local Irish pub when Andy suggested we start a new band together. After all, he reasoned, we all play instruments and we all write music. Why not start a new band to play our original songs?
"Who else will we get to play in the band?" I asked.
"The usual suspects," Phil answered.
For the next three years, The Usual Suspects played gigs around South Florida and developed a small but dedicated following. We built a set list of about 50 original songs and worked out the harmonies and arrangements. The band was truly a labor of love and we loved playing together.
The next natural step in our growth was to record a CD, so we spent the next two years recording, mixing, and producing 16 of our original compositions. Thanks to digital technology and the talent of my bandmates we did almost everything ourselves and finally created a very professional product that we're real proud of.
Along the way we had to change the name of our group. Needless to say, the trademark wasn't available for "The Usual Suspects" and being in a band with three attorneys and a paralegal (and a distribution manager, by the way) meant we had to have all our legal ducks in a row. After hundreds of name suggestions, someone came up with "The Southbound Suspects," and thanks to my decades-long love of The Allman Brothers, that worked just fine for me.
Next it was time to name our CD. We also went through scores of titles and couldn't come up with a solution everyone could agree upon. It got so frustrating that I finally suggested we make the album eponymous. "Eponymous?" one of our members asked. "Eponymous is a stupid name. Why don't we just use the band name instead?"
I couldn't argue with that logic. "The Southbound Suspects" it was.
Besides our songs, our CD offers something unique that I think is perfect for today's fans. We've recorded an album of music created by baby boomers for baby boomers. Our songs tell the stories of our lives, from memories of cross-country trips we made in our twenties to staying in love after the kids are gone to the dream of buying a mid-life crises Harley Davidson.
While the music industry hasn't yet woken up to the burgeoning baby boomer demographic (80 million Americans who control 70% of wealth in the U.S.), today's distribution technology makes it very easy for us to put our songs directly into our consumers' hands. And even though our website isn't quite finished, you can already click on the following links and sample and buy our album on iTunes, Amazon, and CD Baby.
Truth be told, none of us believe we're really going to become rock stars (okay, I think one guy actually does). I'm not even sure that everyone in the band would be willing to give up their day jobs to go on tour to support the album if we got the shot. But there's an enormous opportunity to sell our songs to other performers and generate income, notoriety, and the chance to present the other songs that aren't on our CD.
Will any of this happen? Who knows. The point is not whether the dream will become a reality but how ubiquitous technology has completely democratized the opportunity for self-expression. From consumer-generated videos on YouTube to home-recorded CDs to this blog, the barriers to entry have been eliminated. There's now no excuse not to tell your story or sing your song.
Old world institutions such as publishing houses, movie studios, and music labels that used to control the distribution of art and ideas have seen their competitive positions erode with the onslaught of technology. The creative world has only begun to wake up and take its rightful place creating content. After all, everyone wants to be a rock star.
And us? We just want to sell a few CDs.Published on June 4th, 2012
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When I started my business my father called my action "the confidence of ignorance." I didn't really know what I didn't know so I held my nose and jumped right in. And with some long hours, perseverance, the hard work of lots of great people, and some good luck it turned out pretty well. Yet almost thirty years later it's finally dawned on me that my dad was right – I often have no idea what I'm doing.
Do you?
Social media has become a critical part of our agency's branding and marketing. I'm promoting my ad agency, my speaking, and my books on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, and whatever new technology has emerged since I wrote this post. But I have no idea what I'm doing.
I blog about branding and marketing and my own personal opinion about what's going on in those worlds. I post it all online and send it out to my mailing list and try to promote it on all the social media sites that'll have me. But I have no idea what I'm doing.
I travel around the world speaking at conferences and corporate meetings and attend acting classes and speaking workshops to try to make my platform skills better. Even with all the time spent and experienced gained, I still have no idea what I'm doing.
I'm starting to shoot videos and produce podcasts about branding and marketing and post them on YouTube. I'm taking videos of speeches I've given and learning how to edit them in Apple's Final Cut and sending them out online and on CDs. But I have no idea what I'm doing.
I wrote a couple books on branding and produced them with traditional publishers. Then I self-published the latest book and we distributed it ourselves. Finally, I wrote a novel called The Mouth of the South and didn't even self-publish it, just uploaded it to Amazon as a Kindle book. But I have no idea what I'm doing.
We're creating a new website, trying to make it as interactive, mobile-friendly and user-friendly as possible and all at the same time. But I have no idea what I'm doing.
When people ask me if they should promote themselves or their companies on Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn; if they should blog, tweet, email or send handwritten letters; if they should shoot videos, record podcasts, write books, or speak at conferences; if they should offer discounts on couponing sites, or run ads on TV, radio, newspapers or billboards, my answer is a resounding "yes." When they tell me they don't know how to do it, I say, "don't worry, I have no idea what I'm doing either."
I'm not smart enough to figure out SEO and SEM. I don't have enough time to respond to all the tweets I receive. I don't like Facebook enough to really want to dive into it. I think I only use about 11% of the capabilities of Final Cut. And not one of my books has become a bestseller regardless of how much time, effort, and money I've spent on them.
Why not? Could it be because I have no idea what I'm doing?
My marathon times aren't dropping, my harmonica playing's not getting much better, and the TV show I'm trying to create isn't rushing itself into production. You already know the reasons why. It's because I have no idea what I'm doing.
Are you starting to see a pattern here? Have you gotten the message? As much as I'd love to use this page to brag about all the brilliant things I'm trying to accomplish I have no idea what I'm doing.
Do you?
I think that my feeling is the true zeitgeist of what's going on today in the world of online marketing, new entrepreneurship, and personal development. Of course we can listen to the experts pontificate about whatever it is they know about, but just like the tip of the metaphorical iceberg, what they know and talk about is just a small portion of what's really out there.
What I have in common with those experts is that they don't have any idea what they're doing anymore than I do.
They just do it anyway. And so do I. And, truth be told, so should you.
The key, as Nike taught us, is to "Just Do It." Microsoft has built an enormous company around the notion of implementing first and perfecting later. Or as my dad also used to say, "There's never time to do it right but there's always time to do it over."
So blog, post, tweet, self-publish, promote, and sell, to your heart's content. And don't worry if you don't quite know what you're doing. Why not? Because I have no idea what I'm doing, either.Published on September 6th, 2011
I was a kid back in the dark ages of transistor radios. If a friend told me about a cool new song, I'd tune in to WQAM and wait until they played what I was waiting for. Usually it would take an hour or more if the song was hot. While I waited I'd get my cassette recorder plugged in and loaded so I could tape the song. Invariably, I'd miss the beginning and inadvertently record my mom calling me for dinner over one of the verses.
Sometimes I had a little allowance money burning a hole in my pocket and wanted to order something from the ads on the back of my comic books – sea monkeys, say, or X-ray specs. I'd get my mom to write a check, put it in an envelope and root around for a stamp. Then I'd drop it in the mailbox and wait the four to six weeks the small print warned me about. I'd religiously check the mailbox every day after school but that didn't make the package arrive any sooner.
Things are different today. When my daughter gets a text message about a great new band she has to hear, an MP4 file of the actual song usually accompanies the SMS. If not, she can go to YouTube or the iTunes store, download the song to her phone and listen to it right away.
If my son wants to buy something, he can simply order it online and have it Fed-Ex'd to him in a day or two. And while he waits he can track his package as it wings its way across the country. No one over 45 actually cares where the package is until it arrives in their hot little hands but younger consumers need to know when it's in Tulsa, when it's in Memphis, and when it's on the delivery truck.
Of course if it's a book he wants, he can just one-click order it on Amazon and have it transmitted to a Kindle, iPad, or laptop in less than 60 seconds.
These buyers are labeled by a lot of names these days, – Generation X, Generation Y, Echo Boomers, Millennials – demographic titles based on when they were born. But I think it would be more accurate to name them psychographically, based on the trait they all share: their instant gratification addiction. My genius friend David calls them The Instant On Generation – the hordes of people who have grown up with the "what have you done for me next" demands of digital technology and don't know how to function in an analog environment.
Unfortunately for them, world events are conspiring to make things very difficult for Instant-ons. Thanks to the combined effects of a burgeoning world population, expanded financial opportunity in the under-developed world and the democratization of technology, there are more people on airplanes, more people in restaurants, more people consuming natural and man made resources, and more people traveling around the world than ever before. And while Instant-ons are perfectly happy to zoom along in their digital environments, finding their friends on FourSquare, making reservations on OpenTable, and communicating with each other 24/7 across Facebook and Twitter, the sheer number of people expecting immediate service in the carbon universe is an unscalable mess that slows everything down.
Before you start pining for the good old days, remember that things weren't that fast before. It's just that there were far fewer people clamoring for service and those people were way more willing to wait their turn. But older consumers didn't grow up with the instant reward and response of videos games. They didn't grow up with the instant gratification of flash frozen prepared foods heated in a microwave. And they didn't grow up with a 24/7 communication device glowing greedily in their pocket.
Tomorrow's consumer did, and tomorrow's marketer is going to have to figure out how to successfully service people who live the lyrics to the Queen song: "I want it all and I want it now."
Talking about today's sped up world, Steven Wright said, "If you put instant coffee in a microwave you almost go back in time." Funny thing is I don't smell coffee. I smell opportunity. Specifically, how to make Instant-ons happy? An improved customer experience is one way: think Disney World's line management techniques or the TSA security experience at Las Vegas' McCarran Airport. Here in Miami, wealthy wannabe American Instant-ons can even hire people to stand in line for them at immigration.
But all of these solutions are just Band-Aids. The true moneymakers will be the ones who figure out how to reconcile Instant-ons' digital expectations with analog reality.
Published on June 13th, 2011