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should i get this 95' 740il
was trolling Craigslist cars which i do often..i have issues... anyway was shocked to see this ad http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/2980749076.html
for only 600 bucks get a nice looking 7 series emailed the guy and this is what he said "i have the title, no engine knocks. It has been sitting for a year now, got a new car and haven't driven it. 2 weeks ago went to see if a friend wanted to buy it, he bought a battery for it and we started her up and took it for a spin, didn't have the get up and go it used to have. Put new gas in it, coolant, some oil, and tried again to no avail. Will not go over 25mph without making a terrible sound. Do not want to risk more damage to the car and drive it anymore. Put it on craigslist for 1200, no one wanted it for that much, so now I'm fed up and want to be rid of it."
IDK what do you guys think?? my spidey sense says NOO somethings majorly wrong but for 600 hey you could sell it to the junk yard and get that money back..
Anybody please? Im going tommorow to look at this car and I know maintence and parts are on the high end and this would be my first real "foriegn" car..but I have always adored 7 series models and this would be my chance to get one even if id have to have a child just to sell it to be able to afford the parts for this thing. So ANY opinion related to the car is appreciated
Well I always say the same thing to guys wanting to buy a cheap e38 take it to a indie shop pay them to check it out because one of these cars can cost 5 Gs easy to fix.......
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Beretta 92sf stainless. It was the only gun I had at the time.
This is a discussion on What gun did you take the CHL course with? within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; In Iowa the class requires no live fire. So nobody takes any....
In Iowa the class requires no live fire. So nobody takes any.
Beretta 92sf stainless. It was the only gun I had at the time.
XD-40 because I shoot it well and it's 100% reliable. I wanted to use a semiauto in Texas to qualify so I could carry both semi's and wheelguns. I still carry it in an MTAC Minotaur about 30% of the time.
One Riot, One Ranger. Long live the Republic of Texas.
"It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf." -- Thomas Fuller
The 1911: An elegant weapon from a more civilized age...
I took my first CHL proficiency with my Dan Wesson 1911.
Why, it was the only semi auto I had at the time. I still have it, but rarely carry it because it takes too much to maintain when carried on a daily basis down here in Texas.
When I did the qualification for CHL instructor, I used my Taurus 24/7 Pro DS and my SP101. Still have both and still carry both on occasion.
Just remember that shot placement is much more important with what you carry than how big a bang you get with each trigger pull.
Texas CHL Instructor
Texas Hunter Education Instructor
NRA Instructor
S&W 1911TA Enhanced, best grouping in our class of 50. This gun just about shoots itself, wish it was easier to carry concealed.
I used my XD9 Subcompact and my husband used his XDM Compact 45. Waiting on our permits to get here. Got a few more weeks left.
Our instructor furnished .22 semi's if we wanted to use them. That's what I did. In OK, if you use a revolver, that's all you're allowed to carry. If you use a semi, you can carry what you want.
We don't have to show proficiency, only safe gun handling.
We fired 5 rounds from an "arms out front" position and 5 rounds from a "draw & fire" position. If we could do that without hitting a "classmate" or the instructor, we passed.:)
Colt 1991 A-1 full size .45 Auto. At the time it was my only decent firearm. Well, I could have taken it with my Grendel P-10 But loading single rounds through the top would have been a pain, as it only holds 10 and OK law requires you to fire 50. No accuracy requirement though. Still have both, Grendel is strictly a pillow gun. Never a carry weapon, I'd have nightmares of someone else trying to unload it.
A 1911 is Not an obsession, it's simply a recognition that it's THE Gun. :-) All others are runner ups. And hey, if all else fails, aim for the nose and fling it to knock out your foe. Let's see y'all do that with a kel-Tec. ;-)
Beretta 92. Why? My dad lives in another state so a friend let me borrow his Beretta.
My EDC weapon is a Glock 26. Still getting used to it. Already planning to buy a backup which most likely will be a beretta 9mm as well.
World War I era Colt 1911.
Charter Member of the DC .41 LC Society "Get heeled! No really"
No possible rapidity of fire can atone for habitual carelessness of aim with the first shot.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Wilderness Hunter, 1893
I used a Sig P228 to take the course. I no longer have it. I prefer Glock for carry now.
The same gun a I carry, Springfield XD 9mm service model
G17 and G 19 Didn't like the G19. If I wanted a full size 9 mm for OC I would consider the G17.
Though I took my first CHL course and range test with Gs, I have different preferences. YMMV.
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
Andrew Jackson
Why? Because I am very accurate with it, just like everyone else who shoots Glock. Yes I still have it, I open carry it on occasion because its a tad big for CC


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I still don't know what the hell I was thinking...
It started with an STI Spartan that I ordered out of nowhere when I saw "Osama dead" flashing across the screen...then I realized how much I enjoyed the 1911 platform and gave that to my dad after putting one box through it and basically proceeded to lose my damn mind and put in an order to Mr. Hammond. It all went so quick in hindsight..I wanted something special to commemorate the 100 year anniversary and the Brown won me over. I don't know why not a Wilson, maybe the options were just too much at the time? Baer never got considered much, it always seemed like a perfect 2nd semi-custom, but not first (and possibly one and only)..Not too cold, not too hot..Brown was the porridge that was "just right"..
I couldn't be happier knowing I have a gun that'll be with me and by my side for life..I feel blessed that it's a Brown.
-NRA Life Member-
-Ed Brown Special Forces-
-Alchemy Custom Target-
To me, his US Navy Assault Craft 1 - Vietnam SF Carry is the one that does it for me. The gun - the grips - the whole package. That may be the not only the best looking 1911 that I have ever seen but also the coolest (from a standpoint of being a commemorative gun of his wartime service). AWESOME!!!
I bought mine purely on the reputation and had never held an EB. I had many Colts before, and still do, but I wanted one Ed Brown.
Colonel, USAF (Ret)
NRA Life Member
I started shooting 1911's many years ago. I am first and foremost a shooter and all the 1911's I owned had problems of one sort or another at some point. Like many of us here I started with guns made by Colt which at the time were pretty much junk. I had a slew of Kimbers and Springfields then Baer's and Wilsons. In all I have owned 20+ various 1911's over the years but none of them every scratched my itch. I finally broke down and bought a used Ed Brown off the internet. I had never even SEEN a Brown, let alone held or shot one, but by this point I was getting desperate.
A week after my SF arrived I got rid of the other four 1911's that were in my gunsafe at the time. I've never looked back. My SF is hands-down the BEST 1911 that I have ever shot or owned.
Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician - Col Jeff Cooper
I started by shooting a Randall 1911 in IPSC back in the early '90s. (Which I can kick myself for getting rid of...)
I've always been a 1911 fan, and now I have quite a few. In 2009, I was getting ready to work in the UK for 1 year. I ordered an EB Kobra *and* an LB Stinger the same time so I could have two new 1911s on my return.
I bought both of them since I knew they'd be good shooters.
Colt GCNM s70, GCT, Delta Elite (new), Delta Elite (blued), O1918, Colt MKIV s70, Combat Govt, Officer's, Commander, Kimber Custom Target, EB Kobra, LB Stinger, TRS, Dan Wesson Guardian 9mm
SA Milspec+Marvel Conversion, Berryhill MEU(SOC), Miller Custom w/.38 Super McCormick frame, & 'Monolith' w/.45 Fusion Frame, Fusion Scout 9mm, Wilson Combat WECSOG
Emerson is the cause of my kid going without clothes and the rest of us living on Ramen noodles. Thanks buddy!
Remember, you can post here because they died over there.
I did not own a firearm until July 2011 - about a month after reality intruded on me and my wife's "condition white" life. But that is another story.
The first time I visited my LGS to look at the options for me, I was absolutely astounded as to the number of 1911 pistols in the case. They had Colts, Kimbers, Springfields, Dan Wessons, Sigs, RIAs, and even one or two Wilsons. Then I found out that it was the 100 year anniversary of the 1911. Then and there I just knew I was going to own one. However, I also knew that I needed to learn and master pistol handling and shooting skills before I got that 1911. So I went looking for 9mm pistols...
The first one I picked up was a Glock 19. Ugh. A blocky, ugly thing that did not fit my hand well. Please note that I was continuously reading and doing research on the various makes and models out there - and reading customer and owner reviews, which is why I picked up the Glock first. So, no Glock for me. Then I picked up a S&W M&P. Nope. I looked at dozens of pistols and got a SA XD(m) 9mm. It shot well, but it was plastic. I will never own another plastic pistol again.
Then I got a Sig P226 EE, which I still own. Then I got a Sig 1911 TACOPS. Now that was a 1911! Or was it? After range sessions, I noted that I was tired and sore after shooting the Sig 1911. So I started looking for another. I stumbled onto the 1911 Forum and started reading the various posts in the Manufacturers forums. I had already looked at WCs, DWs, SAs, Nighthawks, STIs, and Les Baers. They were all fine pistols to be sure...
Then I started reading about Ed Browns...
One of things that the folks were saying about EBs is that they "shot softly." Well, that sounded like it was for me. Then I went to the EB web site - and fell in love. These pistols have the classic 1911 look I was looking for. After about 2 months, I finally owned my EB SF. Everyone was right - they DO shoot softer than other .45 ACP pistols that I have used. Then I bought another (used) KC. Uh, oh.
So far, I have been nothing but pleased and completely satisfied that I made the correct decision on EB.
So, soft-shooting, classic looks, reliability, and quality are the reasons I own an EB.
"Man is not free unless government is limited." - Ronald Reagan
The Brown family I expect to be around for as long as I am. I like that I should be able to return my Brown to the firm that made it if I need warranty work and that has in-house Brown parts availability in support. I hope they keep Justin where he is - and if he moves up - I hope his replacement is equally as effective.
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. - He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. - Sun Tzu
What lead me to a Brown.
My nicest gun was a Kimber Ultra CDP. Very good gun to me, wanted the new Super Carry Pro when it first came out. Local master dealer, who I had bought most all my pistols from, wanted over MSRP.
Looking on the internet I found out that was Close to the price of a Les Baer, which I knew was a better gun.
So I decided I would instead look for and get a Baer. The fine gentleman who showed me some Baers and then proceeded to show me some Browns. Now the Brown was a little more money, but very nice.
So I said I would think about it. I went home thought about it for a day, then I decided the Baer Stinger was what I was looking for in my next Carry gun, so I ordered it from the Gentleman who showed me the guns and took the time to explain them.
About one week later I decided I also could not live with out the Special Forces Brown, so I call him up again and ordered one.
The Baer is a work truck, and the right gun for what I bought it for.
The Brown, is a Cadillac, smooth as silk and a pleasure to have in your hand.
My second Brown is siting in his safe now, he is waiting to ship it to me until I get home from the Rig the middle of this month.
Jerry, you are watching after my new one right? I am dying to see it its been a long wait and should be very special with all the options I had put on it.
Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician - Col Jeff Cooper
Well for me it was because I could get one and not wait for a Wilson last fall. Found a Classic Custom and have regretted it but it is still a good looking gun. Had to have the hood welded up and a trigger job done just a mental thing now. When I pay almost custom build price I expected a little more.
NRA Life Member
I have been carrying 1911s since I started in 1975. From Colt, SA, Kimber, Baer, Wilson. Now its a Kobra stainless. It is the best so far.
I was on my way to the shooting range, go every Tuesday evening with a couple of ex miltary friends, one of whom is a retired Marine that fought in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, Navy Cross awardee. Anyway, stopped to talk to another friend at his place of business and he asked what I was up to?
Told him I was on my way to the shooting range and thought I would stop and shoot the bull. He asked what kind of guns I had and I gave him a run down on what I have in the safe of which one was a Springfield 1911 45. (that I hated ever since the purchase, loose as a goose) Was going to have a smithy go through the darn thing and try to make a good shooting piece of it.
At that point he said I have an Ed Brown want to see it, of course the answer was yes and he produced the gun. Checked to make sure it was not loaded and handed it to me.
I was blown away by the appearence and quality of the gun. The slide action is smooth, no sharp edges, felt different from the junk piece i owned.
Asked him how it shot, he said it was a delight to shoot, a favorite gun of his and had run an awful lot of ammo through in with nary a burp.
That was in early January 2012, I was hooked, sold the junk, and purchased a Special Forces January 10, 2012. The order was confirmed January 13, 2012 for delivery June 13.
Kinda jummed the gun (pardon the pun) thought I could order the gun get in the que and make any changes at a later date. Wrong, and more expensive. Anyway with the help of good people on this web site I finally zeroed in on a gun I am sure I will be happy with, nothing too fancy but not box stock either. Have a little over a month to go before shipment and then another two weeks of agony and wait.
That's my story//Carl
I held a Ed Brown Special Forces Carry in my hand..it belonged there. I put a Ed Brown Special Forces Carry in a VMII and put it on my hip..it belonged there. Prior to Ed Brown, had Colts, Kimbers, Para, and even a couple Les Baer 1911s. I enjoy shooting the Brown the most.
I bought a Kimber first, then a bought a Smith and Wesson. Both had intermitent issues. I started reading up on semi customs. I decided that I wanted a semi custom for reliability. I walked into a local shop and they had a Kobra Carry. As soon as I held it it called out to me! I was sold! I now have both the Kobra Carry and the Kobra. I am thrilled with both.
I've owned several gunsmith custom jobs over the years. A lot of good guns, but also a lot of time and pain in the butt in the process to get them built. I was honestly kind of sick of dealing with that and just wanted to buy the best gun i could get "off the shelf." I got the Ed Brown Special Forces, and I'd put it up against anything. It's my #1 gun now.
I did send it off to Robar to get NP3. Guess I just can't leave any gun entirely alone!
Feels good to have a gun like a Brown and to still be able to make it yours..IMO money spent on making a perfect gun yours feels infinitely more worth it compared to money spent to fix an OK gun..
-NRA Life Member-
-Ed Brown Special Forces-
-Alchemy Custom Target-
Regards, Will G.
Do you have any pics of this? I am considering the same thing for an EB-SFC. Was reading up on their new Poly 2 finish? Would love to see what the end result looked like on yours - and are you happy with it?
Note my SFC has the OD-Green Gen 3 over SS.
My wife has a Colt Series 80 in 38 super and I've enjoyed shooting it. I've carried a Springfield XD for the past several years, so I thought I would buy a full size 1911 in 45 for myself. After some research I found a Wilson dealer and looked at the CQB he had in stock, but couldn't believe that compared to a Colt Series 70 it would be worth $2k more, so I ended up buying a Colt.
At a happy hour a few months later, a colleague said I should have gotten a Brown and suggested that I look into them. He said I wouldn't be disappointed. I happened to get a bonus after working several months of extreme over time at work. My wife (bless her heart) said, use the money to get whatever you want, you worked hard for it.
I did a ton of research on Baer, Brown, Nighthawk, Wilson, etc. The thing that set EB apart for me was that they had a written warranty. So we stopped in at Bass Pro Shops and looked at the Ed Browns. I was about to buy a SS Kobra Carry even though I wanted a Black Executive Carry when my wife (bless her heart again) said, if you are going to spend that kind of money, why not order one and get exactly what you want.
So I did, 4 months later (Feb 1 2012), I picked it up and a conceal carry holster for it (which didn't really fit). After shooting it, I decided to carry it. I've since ordered a IWB from http://overlandgunleather.com, and patiently waiting a holster that fits. :-)
We've been to the range several times since, and my wife loves to bring as many of our guns as possible. But I only shoot the Ed Brown. It is THAT much fun to shoot. The only hassle I have had with it, is that it doesn't like my Colt or Wilson mags, but all of the Ed Browns ones, including the ones I bought from their website, have been flawless.
The other day that same college and went to the range. He brought his KC and Executive Target. I liked them both, but still liked my Executive Carry, though my EC has slim line grips so that makes it easier on my small hands.
btw: sorry for the lengthy post, too much coffee this am??
I foolishly bought a girl an engagement ring and was thinking damn could have bought a couple custom 1911's with that much cash. Then she went home to CA to visit her folks and never came back. Still have the Brown...
"I believe if they set aside their law as and when they wish, their law no longer has rightful authority over us, all they have left over us then is tyranny, and I will not live under that yoke".
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23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me." 25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me." 26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. 29 For those who eat and drink without discerning the body of Christ eat and drink judgment on themselves. 30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. 31 But if we were more discerning with regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment. 32 Nevertheless, when we are judged in this way by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world. 33 So then, my brothers and sisters, when you gather to eat, you should all eat together. 34 Anyone who is hungry should eat something at home, so that when you meet together it may not result in judgment.
–1 Corinthians 11.23-34 (NIV)
I dedicate this reflection to my mom and dad, and in loving memory of them, on this the 64th anniversary of their wedding. They were married on Worldwide Communion Sunday, October 5, 1947 at First Presbyterian Church, Van Wert, OH. Enjoy your rest with your Lord, mama and papa. I love and miss you.
Sadly in my life, I have talked to many Christians who are reluctant to come to the Lord's Table to receive holy communion because they "are not worthy" and too often their reluctance is based on today's passage. Assuming their reluctance is not some kind of false humility, this is a real shame because they are denying themselves a real and tangible sign of God's great love and grace offered them through the death of Jesus. Written some 20 years after Jesus' death, Paul gives us the earliest account of the Last Supper that we have in Scripture and we need to pay attention to its broader context because it gives us some guidance as to what Paul likely has in mind when he talks about partaking the Lord's Supper in an "unworthy" manner.
Paul has been castigating the Corinthians for making a mockery of the Lord's Supper (cf. 1 Corinthians 11.17-22). Apparently many confused it with eating a regular meal and that was their first mistake. Yes, we eat and drink the bread and the wine, the body and blood of Jesus, but this was never intended to be a regular meal for us as Paul makes clear here.
The second mistake the Corinthians made was to be cliquish in their participation in the meal and as Paul makes clear here and elsewhere in his letters, the body of Christ cannot be divided in this way. Apparently some of the richer Corinthians brought an abundance of food and drink and then overindulged while their poorer counterparts went hungry. What a travesty this is, says Paul. But why is it a travesty? Because Jesus' body and blood is offered freely to all who come to the Table in faith. Christ did not die for a few privileged or wealthy folk. He died for all people who come to him in faith and when we understand this, we can begin to understand what Paul was talking about when he spoke of taking communion in an "unworthy manner."
For you see, anyone who comes to the Table is unworthy of the gift offered because we are all terribly broken people. But that misses the whole point of the Gospel. As Paul wrote to the Romans, God demonstrates his love for us by dying for us while we were still hostile and openly rebellious toward him (Romans 5.8). The point is that nobody is worthy to come to the Lord's Table based on his or her own merits. Holy Communion is a sacramental sign (an outward and visible sign, in this case of bread and wine, that represents and inward and invisible reality, in this case of the real presence of Jesus' body and blood in the elements) of God's great love and mercy for us.
When Paul talks about eating and drinking the elements in an unworthy manner, he likely has in mind the context about which he has just scolded the Corinthians. "Stop treating this meal as an ordinary meal," Paul says. "Stop hoarding food and drink. Stop being selfish and self-centered. Don't you know that Christ died for all of you, not just some? Do you really think some of you are better than others? Think again."
Now of course this does not mean that we should not be self-reflective and willing to change our unholy ways before we come to feed on our Lord's body and blood. Jesus himself commanded us to make peace with our enemies before we bring our gift to the altar (cf. Matthew 5.22-24) and that surely finds application here. We can't be at odds with our fellow believers, at least as far as it depends on us (cf. Romans 12.17-19) and come to the Table with an unforgiving and proud spirit because that goes against our Lord's commandment.
But to exclude yourself from holy communion based on a misunderstanding of today's passage is just plain sad because God welcomes us in our brokenness, even while he is not satisfied to leave us where we are. He begins to heal and forgive us when we come to the Table and feed on the body and blood of our Lord Jesus. If churches were only for "good people," they would be utterly empty because there is no such thing, popular opinion excluded. No, churches and the Lord's Table are for broken and forgiven believers.
It is part of the awesome beauty of communion that folks like you and me are invited to approach the Table in faith so as to receive healing and forgiveness in a powerful and tangible way. In doing so, we remember Christ crucified for us and we feast at the great eschatological (end time) banquet with all the saints of God. Past, present, and future are collapsed into one great moment when we come to the Table to receive the bread and the cup. It is a great mystery and sacrament, this holy communion, and we are to treat it accordingly. The Corinthians apparently did not and that is what got them in hot water with Paul.
Life is hard enough as it is and we are prone to despair and discouragement because we all get beaten up regularly. That is why partaking in communion regularly is such an important thing for Christians to do as part of their growth as disciples. There is no magical incantation going on here, just the wondrous mercy and grace of God, poured out for us on the cross, so that we have a real hope and chance to live with God, now and forever.
The next time you come to the Table, by all means please do examine yourself carefully. Be prepared to change, with the Spirit's help, that within you that needs to be changed. But do not exclude yourself from coming to the Table if you are willing and able to follow your Lord to the best of your ability, even if you are profoundly broken and flawed. Otherwise, you cut yourself off from feeding on the grace and forgiveness of Jesus so that he can help you grow in your faith, love, and obedience, both to him and to others.
You also cut yourself off from a tangible and real reminder of God's great love for you manifested in Jesus. If God loves you enough to become human and die for you, and if you come to his Table with a humble and contrite spirit, why would God ever find you to be "unworthy" in that sense? After all, God never rejects a humble spirit or a broken and contrite heart (cf. Psalm 51.17). His very cross stands as eternal witness to this and you can be reminded of this each week as you come to his Table and accept his gracious offer of healing and forgiveness by feeding on the body and blood of your Lord. What an awesome and sacred privilege. Thanks be to God in our Lord Jesus Christ!


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whole house fan louvres don't open
A few months ago my whole house fan worked nicely, but now it doesn't. The fan runs at its usual noise level, but the louvers in the attic floor/ hall ceiling don't open. When I push them open with a broomstick, they immediately fall closed again when I remove the broomstick. How do I fix this?
They may have a helper spring or cylinder that has broken or came loose. Do they move freely?
TazinCR's right I'd imagine. I'd take the louvers down and check the springs on them. If one broke or came unhooked, the fan probably can't pull them open.
There are different types of vents. Some a bariatric that open with pressure (or negative pressure in this case) and some need assisting with springs or power as is the case with powered vents.
Then again it could be that you have another opening in the attic and the air is coming in from there.
Go up in the attic and look around. Maybe you have a broken attic window that won't allow negative pressure to build up and open the vents in the ceiling.
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I'm a bit late posting this, but the rest of the day is great, so here you go!
I'm a bit late posting this, but the rest of the day is great, so here you go!
On Thursday at Signal Austin, and then again on Friday at SXSWi, I'll be having an onstage conversation with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, who continues to be the driver of the WordPress community. WordPress is a unique platform – Matt works for Automattic, a for profit company that owns the rights to the hosted version of WordPress, at wordpress.com. There's also WordPress.org, which is an open source, not-for-profit foundation that boasts a vibrant community of developers and hackers who merrily create hacks, plugins, and any number of patches to the WordPress code.
When WordPress.com was split off into the for-profit company, many were concerned it would quickly become clogged with ads, but Mullenweg and his partners have been extremely careful in how they've introduced marketing into the community. Experiments include FoodPress, EcoPressed, and others in partnership with my company, Federated Media, as well as one-off sponsorships with Microsoft around IE9, and some clever use of Google's AdWords and other ad networks. Clearly media is a business WordPress will get into more, especially with the traffic and uniques it attracts (see chart at bottom).
Instead of advertising, so far WordPress has focused on tools – including a "freemium" model for key plug ins such as backup, polling, and spam protection. But as the platform has grown, it has taken a considerable amount of investment capital, and those investors will at some point demand a significant return. Furthermore, WordPress has earned the dubious honor of being large enough to become a target for hackers with less than honorable intentions (not to mention ongoing battles with black hat spammers).
I could go on and on – I am fascinated by WordPress, as well as by the publishing platform space it inhabits. The same habitat is populated by a clutch of super interesting companies, including Tumblr, which recently surpassed WordPress in pure number of pageviews (though not engaged uniques) and of course Twitter. It's my sense these three companies are due to run into each other in the marketplace over time, in particular as the independent web matures into a real media play (more on that another time).
But rather than have me ramble on about WordPress and Automattic, instead let me put the question to you: What would you have me ask Matt at Signal and SXSW? Please leave your questions in comments, or tweet them to me at @johnbattelle with the tag #FMSignal or #SXSW. Thanks!
(cross posted from the FM Blog) In just a few days I'll be welcoming 200 or so digital marketers to Signal Austin, the second edition of FM's Signal conference series – regional, "mini" versions of our highly-acclaimed annual New York event. Our first Signal – based in LA – focused on content marketing. I'm proud to say it was both oversold and very well received.
This week's Signal in Austin will focus on the impact of location in marketing. Given that Austin – home to the legendary SXSW conference – is where Twitter, Foursquare, and Gowalla all broke out, I'm expecting quite a program. To that end, I wanted to give readers a bit of a "curtain raiser" on what to expect for the day. As with all our shows, the conference is limited in attendance (we thought we'd cap it at 150, but nearly 200 are already registered) but we'll be livestreaming it and putting the audio online as well.
Signal Austin will open with our a trademark one-on-one conversation. These are my favorite part of the show, perhaps because it gives me a chance to interview such interesting characters. You never really know what's going to happen on stage (who knew that will.i.am was going to go meta?), but I prepare quite a bit in any case.
The first conversation will be with Robert Stephens, CTO of Best Buy and founder of the Geek Squad. I love opening with Robert because one of the themes I believe is critical to marketing in the digital age is a deep understanding of the role technology plays in how a company speaks with its customer base. You simply can't execute "customer aware marketing" without shifting how your company understands and leverages information and information technology. Robert understands this innately. And of course, nothing's more "local" than feet on the street, literally, who touch customers in store and in their homes.
After Robert, Brady Forrest, curator of the seminal Where 2.0 location conference, will introduce the concept of "Startup Ignite", a special version of his Ignite format that he's bringing to Signal. Throughout the day, we'll be hearing from early stage location-driven startups hand-picked by Brady.
Following Brady, we'll hear about the big news from Foursquare and American Express. It was supposed to break at our show, but someone leaked it to the Journal already. Sigh. Stuff happens.
Signal will be focused mostly on case studies, so after an Ignite we'll hear from the CEO of Loopt, with a case study around the company's work with Virgin America. We'll then hear news from another hot location startup, Whrrl.
Next comes our second conversation of the day, with WordPress and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg. I've come to know Matt a fair bit over the past couple years and really like his point of view on things. WordPress, as most know, is the most successful and feature rich blogging platform on the market. He'll talk about his point of view on local, as well as what's ahead for his platform and his company.
After a break we'll come back to hear from the CEO of GoWalla, the founder of JiWire, and the COO of SCVNGR – a murderer's row of location-based startups, all of whom are doing real work and real marketing revenue. After another Ignite, we'll hear a case study from Levi's, and a unique POV on B2B from Spiceworks.
Once lunch is over, we'll return to a conversation with Sean Finnegan, a senior marketing executive who recently took the helm as CEO of Geomentum, IPG's hyperlocal agency with more than $2 billion in media billings a year. After Sean, we'll hear from Microsoft, which has made local a key focus of its Bing search engine.
Andy Lark, a senior marketer from Dell, will then bend our concept of what "local" means with a case study around enterprise marketing. We'll hear another Ignite, and then hear from the founder of SimpleGeo, another key location startup. After that we'll hear from American Eagle, Yelp, and Archrival, which will present youth-focused research.
As we head toward the home stretch, we'll hear from sponsor HP, which has made location a key part of not only its marketing, but its product strategy as well. After HP we'll hear from Pepsi, then our final Ignite. Marc Ruxin, a pal and key man at Universal McCann, will lament the "death of touch", and we'll round out the day with a conversation with Marissa Mayer, who heads up location for Google.
Not bad for one day!
If you can't make it to Signal Austin, make sure to visit the event page this Thursday. We'll post the live link there for you.
A special thanks to all the staff and sponsors who make Signal possible. It's really amazing to work with you all….
This is a story of a radio station – you know, those old school, pre-Internet media outlets that folks my age grew up listening to. I've always been rather fond of radio, in a nostalgic way, and I've had an off again, on again relationship with it over the years. For the past few years, it's been mostly off – I only listen to AM sports radio (my beloved Giants) and NPR on FM. Whenever I get a new car, I get six months free of Sirius, and I check into Howard Stern, but then the trial period ends, and I just don't feel like the subscription price is worth it, particularly given it's not transferrable to any of my other cars.
Now, back in the day, radio really meant something. Remember the FM radio boom? If you're over 40 or so, you probably do – the peak was the 1970s, where, according to Wikipedia "FM radio experienced a golden age of integrity programming, with disc jockeys playing what they wanted, including album cuts not designated as "singles" and lengthy progressive rock tracks."
In case you're wondering, it was this period of time that inspired the name of my company Federated Media, or FM – the explosion of independent voice in radio during the 1970s was quite similar to the explosion of independent voices on the web today….but I'm taking a detour. Back to my story…
So a week or so ago I find myself stuck in my car for longer than my average commute, and both sports radio and NPR were, for various reasons, insufferable (which they both can be quite often). I listen to my own music a lot as I work or work out, so I wasn't hankering to plug in my own tunes (and it's impossible to do so while driving if you want to make a call, thanks Audi!).
I was looking for something new – in short, I was in discovery mode.
So what did I do? Well, I reverted back to my 1970s roots, and I started flipping around the FM dial. Nearly everything I landed on was terrible – the same old top-40 pop or lowest-common-denominator format crap that's infected this increasingly irrelevant industry for more than ten years (I'm looking at you, Alice 97.3!).
Then I landed on 92.3 – KSJO – and out came, of all bands, the Local Natives.
Now the Local Natives aren't utterly arcane, but they aren't exactly mainstream either (at least, they weren't a year ago. I've heard their music in commercials recently, but that's pretty standard these days). In short, it was quite surprising to find them on the radio at all, and the song being played was not one of their better-known ones – it was, in old FM parlance, a "B side."
The next song was of a similar mindset, something by The National I think, or maybe it was Band of Horses or Morning Benders. After that was a deep Broken Bells track. Every one of these bands I have gone to see live, at a festival like Bonnaroo or Austin City Limits, or at a music hall like The Independent in San Francisco. This was music I really connected with, one song after another.
Experiencing what felt like *my* music being played on the radio was a total shock – it had been nearly 30 years since a radio station was a community I wanted to be part of – a badge I'd wear, so to speak. And anyone who reads this site knows that my definition of a truly successful "publication" is one that has a voice and point of view which draws a community together.
Here I had found a real publication of a radio station. What a novelty!
Over the past few days I've been actually listening to KSJO because the music is good – I know nearly all of it, and that which I don't know is interesting – I wanted to know more. Oddly, the format of the station is "DJ-less" – there's no one telling me the names of the bands – in fact, I've never even heard the station break for an advertisement (a red flag, to my mind – clearly this couldn't last).
The only break between songs is an ongoing, pre-recorded "campaign" called "Save Alternative," voiced in a rather irritating manner by a young woman trying to be a bit too cool for school. Given that the "save alternative" stuff was pretty minimal, it didn't drive me off the station, I was digging the music and I was intrigued by this new entrant on the dial. At some point the woman's voice mentioned "savealternative.com" so of course, I decided to check it out online. Clearly, whoever had just bought the station was working up some kind of promotion around this, and I figured they must be starting it commercial free.
Here's where the story goes south.
On the site, there's nothing but a page imploring visitors to join "SALT", the "Save ALTernative Cult". "Justice is coming" the site promises. Ick. Maybe I'm not in the demo, but honestly, all this "us vs. the man" stuff is pretty cliche. Justice for whom? Folks tired of shitty radio? OK, but really, do I need to join a cult for this?
But even though the voice was off putting, I signed up to be on their email list, because the music was just that good. In other words, the product was great, even though the marketing, so far, was way off key.
The marketing only got worse, at least in practice. In fact, it's rather a case study of what NOT to do if you have a product so good, people actually do work to tell you more about themselves.
Here I was, a fan of the product who converted from an on air listener to taking action on the web – I actually filled out an online form. As any marketer knows, that makes me one of the most valuable potential customers that station could ever have – in particular as I was an early adopter. It turns out, the station was sold on Feb 28, 2011 to a new owner, and this format was barely a week old by the time I filled out the form. And while I don't want to make too big a deal of it, I think I'd qualify as an influencer – I've got a few hundred thousand followers of my RSS and Twitter feeds. I wanted to tell people about the new station, but…well, while the product was great, the marketing was now in the way. I wasn't sure I wanted to send folks to savealternative.com. It was a bit too…cheesy. I couldn't endorse it. (I didn't even want to "Like" it on Facebook.)
So I gave them my email address and other info, including some of the bands I liked, and that was that. The homepage promised I'd find out about local bands and other promotions, and that sounded good. There's literally nothing else on the site, not even a playlist (which was the main reason I went to the site in the first place).
I was still curious about the station, and wanted to know the playlist, and I figured the "regular station" must have a site as well. A bit of Googling landed me at a very odd place – it had some of the playlist info I was looking for, but it also had a slide show with pictures of the Kim Kardashian in a tiny swimsuit and a bunch of other random, corporate rock crap – not exactly consistent with the product which drew me in the first place.
In short, I was utterly confused. Today, as I wrote this post, I tried to find that site again, and for now anyway, the site is offline (there's another one related to the sale here, again, with nothing on it). I probably saw a site in transition as the ownership was being transferred. But first impressions are critical to growing a viral and evangelistic audience, and so far, the new owners were blowing it.
I'm not trying to pile on here, but it does get worse. It's been a week since I gave "savealternative.com" my email address, and so far, it's been crickets. I didn't even get a confirmation email thanking me for joining up. I want to connect, I want to become part of the community implied by this fresh new voice on the radio, but…whoever's running marketing there is fumbling around in the dark.
I for one hope they find the light switch. And for any of you planning digital marketing campaigns, keep this case study in mind. If you've got a great product, make sure your marketing and comms pay it off online. Your early evangelizers are the spark that amplify your brand. Don't snuff it out before it has a chance to catch fire.
NB: I've been thinking a lot about local and location-based marketing in advance of FM's Austin Signal event this week. If any brand is location-based, it's a local radio station…hence the long post…
A couple of days ago I was speaking with Reuters reporter Connie Loizos, who's been covering the Internet space since the days of the Industry Standard (she worked at the Red Herring). She was working on a story questioning whether there was a new bubble brewing in our space, a question that many have asked in the past few months, in particular as it relates to private financings of startups. You can find that story here, on PEHub.
As readers of this site know, I don't believe we're in a real bubble, at least not the kind that popped in late 2000 (or the housing bubble, which seems still to be popping). But that's not the interesting part of our conversation. Connie asked if I thought the press was in part culpable for our collective obsession with sky-high private company valuations, "hot new startups," and the like.
Of course the answer is yes – there's an "interest bubble" of sorts – but the answer is nuanced. And nuance is something I've found in short supply throughout the Internet ecosystem – at least in what we've come to call "the press."
So let's break it down. First off, what is "the press"? If you define it as "responsible journalists working diligently at their craft" then I'd submit we no longer have an information ecosystem dominated by "the press." Indeed, we have a ton of great reporters doing their jobs – probably far more now than we had even at the height of the first boom. But the overall conversation is no longer dominated by their work. Instead, we have migrated to a more free-wheeling discourse driven by any number of interested parties. As it relates to the Internet industry, that means VCs and entrepreneurs promoting or angling for investments or promotion (or souring a deal they didn't get a part of), bankers trying to influence any number of outcomes, and sources within all manners of companies pushing their own agenda on Twitter, Quora, or in private conversations with bloggers and other media outlets.
The tweets, conference utterances, and blog posts of these sources are instantly turned into "news stories" by the post-cambrian publishing explosion of sites covering the narrative that was once the province of first-generation Internet magazines like the Industry Standard (that's the prototype of the first Standard above). And of course, I celebrate this explosion – Federated Media has been central to the business model of most of these second-generation sites, either as former partners (Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Digg, Reddit and soon Mashable) or current (Business Insider, Read Write Web, The Next Web, VentureBeat, GigaOm and scores of others just in the tech space alone).
But while I love the role these publications play in our information processing, it seems we're failing to evolve past the first few stages in that process. Sources hint or brag or dish, then those tidbits are quickly worked into stories. But where's the bigger picture? Where's the hold-on-a-minute-let's-think-this-through-and make-a-few-phone-calls-and-see-how-it-develops approach? Where's the conceptual scoop? The second-day (or even second week) analysis?
To be fair, every single publication covering this space does wonderful analysis, from time to time, but their bread and butter is chasing what Connie called "the echo chamber." Lately, that chamber has gotten very, very large – millions upon millions of people visit these tech news sites, because the narrative they chronicle is more important than it's ever been. Our industry impacts a huge swatch of society and culture, and increasingly is understood to be the core driver of pretty much all of business today.
I'm extremely proud that this story has gotten to the point of so much interest and so much coverage. But are we paying attention to the right things? I'm not sure we always are. I sense a big opportunity to create a new kind of publication, one that has at the center of its brand a thoughtful and deeply informed point of view. I'm not sure how such a site might become profitable in this current era of page-view driven publishing, but I'm relatively certain that could be figured out. I for one want to read this publication, and I wish it existed.
I'm one of the four hosts of this year's IAB conference, and kicking off the event is a keynote from Google's Eric Schmidt. I'll be updating this post as he speaks, so stay tuned….
Eric is wearing a vneck sweater and looks quite dapper. Executive Chairmanship agrees with him (not that I know anything about that…).
Eric starts by hitting "Morning Joe" who said that computers are "cold companions." Eric says he's wrong. "Computers do what computers do best, humans do what humans do best." A "net win for humanity."
Cites "Speak to Tweet" wrt Egypt, Ushahidi as examples.
Turns attention to advertising. Avg. American spends about a third of their media time online. Kids will be always online. Media will mean digital media. Smart phones surpassed PCs two weeks ago. "Mobile first." Build first for them, then worry about web.
(So far, this is stuff we've heard from Eric before…)
Here's something new: Mobile searches spiked 200% for Chrysler during Sbowl, only 48% on PCs. Interesting. Union of mobile devices and advertising is big…"especially display." Current size ad market $26billion, 9 of which is online display (US). Eric says he thinks display can be $200bb globally.
It's too complicated to get a campaign up, that's limiting growth to that $200bb number…we can automate this.
Need to address measurement (no sh*t!) and give more choice/control to all parties (indeed)
Three bets: 1. Everything is changing. Our intuition about future is linear, but IT grows exponentially. The new online advertising model is real time, iterative, not press the button and see what happens in the week, it occurs live.
He notes Chrome is growing as fast as Twitter, and Android has beaten iPhone "and it looks like that will continue."
Eric is now promoting ad networks (adsense) as good for publishers. And onepass, payment for content…
We've never fundamentally solved the problem of "mass engagement" in this medium. Need to … does not go into really how.
Now talking about hyperlocal…phones and tablets are perfect for this. Ex: RadioShack does this with mobile…pushing NFC as solution for closed loop. Agree this is a big deal.
Now Eric is pretty much talking "The Gap Scenario" … we've spent 20 years getting there and we're nearly there now…
Eric is now talking near future world scenario: Computers are very good at remembering things, they remember you don't…you're never lost. You can predict where you might want to go. And with statistical translation, it's good for the world.
"The computer can help me." You're never lonely, you're never bored….computers can connect you to others….you're never out of ideas, always something new to learn…
"What I like most about this future is the biz of information has always been the biz of elites….but our vision covers everyone…"
End of main speech, now to Q&A
QA time. Martin N. of NYT asks about "native apps" closed v. open – Eric does not like "closed apps" (IE Apple..) No kidding…Closed has worked because it's simple, works well, easier to work with. But ultimately the world wants more choice and more openness. Ultimately scale wins. Apps should be able to know what container they are in and then optimize to that container…sounds like Java then Flash, no?!
Question about DSPs which I admit I missed….but had to do with Google's position as both a DSP and an ad exchange/network. Eric said he was not going to become a monopoly.
Question: From Dave M. Simulmedia: What about TV? What about TV? Eric talks about ads product (tvads) and Google TV, which he said is "controversial". Said that TV industry is mad that Google is taking "dumb TV and making it smart". Indeed….
Q: privacy…"industry has to get our act together fast." Goog working on this. Concerned abt early govt. reg. b4 innov. plays out
Q: M&A: We have been acquiring a lot of small companies very quickly.
Q: How long till we get to $200bb in display online? Eric says it's going to be faster than we think…5-10 years
And he's off…
Before we go out, my wife will often ask "how are people dressing tonight?" I'm never quite sure how to answer – at least for her. In essence, she's asking me to read the room we'll be in, and then translate the social nuance of that room to her choice of clothing.
While I certainly pay attention to what I wear, I've come to the point in my life where choosing clothes for a social night out isn't that big a deal anymore. Women, or perhaps my wife in particular, seem far more attuned to the symbolism of social dress than I (perhaps that's why it takes them so long to get ready!). It's not that I don't appreciate a well tailored jacket – I do – it's just…well I know what I like, and I like things simple. If you've seen me speak at a conference, you pretty much know what I look like at dinner on a Saturday night. Instrumenting the nuances of my social dress pretty much comes down to "white shirt or black?" and "those jeans or these?" (Though I will admit to a weakness for shoes.)
Of course there are a lot of nuances in the choices of which jeans, shoes, shirts or jackets we wear, even if they seem similar on their face. And those nuances count, a lot, in how we feel about ourselves in the context of a social situation, and they doubly matter in how others view us. Clothes may or may not make the man, but we all wear clothes (for the most part!), and we all wear them differently.
We humans have been obsessed with clothing for literally thousands of years, and we're the only animals on the planet that purposefully drape ourselves in social symbols of our own creation. (Clearly, many animals have "clothing" of their own – plumage comes to mind – but we're the only ones who change our plumage pretty much every day, if not more often.) And in the past few hundred or so years, brands have emerged (from Abercrombie to Zegna) which have very real meaning to us. We drape ourselves in these brands, and they project all manner of meaning into the world.
Where am I going with all this? Well, stick with me. I was on the phone with Doc Searls last week, preparing for an onstage conversation we're having at the IAB conference later this week. We'll be discussing issues of how consumers' data is used by marketers, and why, so far, no ecosystem has evolved that puts the customer in the driver's seat when it comes to leveraging our own data (Doc is working on this under the rubric of "VRM"). The theme of the IAB meeting is "The People vs. Data" – framing the debate as "us vs. them" – where "us" is folks on the web, and "them" is the ecosystem of marketing infrastructure using "our" data to serve increasingly sophisticated messages to us.
But who owns that data? Don't we, at least in conjunction with the services we use? And why haven't we taken control of it?
Well, possibly because we don't see data as social clothing. But I think, in time, we will. Every day, we wake up and spend at least a few minutes instrumenting our clothing choices for the day. Why don't we do the same with our data and identities online?
I'm tempted to blame Facebook for this – because as I've pointed out here many times, Facebook is currently a pretty homogenous place, with relatively poor instrumentation of who we are, socially. Our Facebook identities are the same no matter to whom we present them. How strange is it that we as humans have created an elaborate, branded costume culture to declare who we are in the physical world, but online, we're all pretty much wearing khakis and blue shirts?
I suggested that one reason was that we, as consumers and customers, simply didn't want to spend the time required to instrument our data so that it was presented in such a way as to be valuable to us. It's just too much work. But over time, I think we will change our views of this, and begin to clothe ourselves in various highly instrumented digital garments. And there's a very large business opportunity out there for brands to emerge as creators, distributors, and yes, sellers, of this new digital clothing.
Update: The Journal has a piece today around startups in the privacy and personal data "asset class" which smacks of a kind of digital clothing.
As you all know each day I summarize links I find worth reading, toss in a few lines of offhand commentary, and send it out as "Signal." So far a few thousand folks have subscribed to it, and while it's not exactly Pulitzer material, it's fun to do and it is a nice way of forcing myself to not just read the news, but think about it as well.
Last night, quite late it turns out (I had a dinner), I once again sat down to do Signal. The first piece I came across (from the WSJ) sparked something of a rant in me. I'm going to re-post it here, for this audience, to see if it sparks any kind of response.
The backstory is simple: The Journal article, which covered a Congressional hearing on the FCC's approach to regulating the Internet, opened with this: "In a contentious hearing, House Republicans attacked new regulations for broadband Internet lines and criticized the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission for adopting them."
I read on – I've been interested in this issue for years, as many readers know. This particular hearing centered on the concept of net neutrality, which I support, though your mileage on the definition of that term may vary. (More on that here).
In any case, the third paragraph of the article opens with a quote from Rep. Fred Upton (R., Mich.), who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee. It was this quote that sparked my Signal mini-rant. Here is is, in full, with a bit more formatting added:
"Why would you put the government in charge of the Internet?" asks the Republican leader.
Well that certainly begs a pretty big-picture question, don't it?! Perhaps because we trust in both the Internet and our government? Because that government is supposedly under the "rule of the people" in a "democratic system"? I mean, why the hell have a government if we don't actually believe in what it embodies?
Do we not believe that the Internet is a resource fundamental to freedom, innovation, and our shared humanity (Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Iran…)? I think we can all agree to that. So in what system should we entrust the Internet? I'd argue it should be within our best expression of shared and collective will – so far, that's what we call democracy, no? Sure, it's messy, but I guess the question then becomes, can we trust our government, messy as it is? Or is it the enemy?
Is unfettered capitalism a better approach? I'd certainly prefer the Internet be governed by a system in which we can vote the bastards out should they mess it up. If they regulate to the point where innovation and freedom suffer, then vote them out. If they leave it unregulated to the point where choice is stifled and we pay more each year for less, vote them out. If instead we opt for a total free-market approach, OK cool, I hope it works out. But if companies have the ability to lock in access, content, services, and innovation, well, history teaches us that a few of them will certainly work hard to do just that.
And if they win? Well, by that time, it might be hard to vote 'em out. A good debate to have, no doubt.
What do you guys think?
I missed rounding up last week's Signal, forgive me. This week is a pretty good one though, ending as it did with something of a philosophical rant around "what is government in the age of the Internet." Enjoy.
Friday Signal: What Do We Do With The Internet?
Thursday Signal: What, You Don't Like Me?
Weds. Signal: Apple Takes Its Bite
Tuesday Signal: The Kings of Liminal
Monday Signal: It's Not a Bubble, But There's Sure A Lot Of Blowing…
When I read Google announcements like this one, An update to Google Social Search, I find myself wondering why Google doesn't just come out and say something like this: "We know social search is important, and we're working on it. However, we don't think the solution lies in working only with Facebook, because, to be honest, we think social media is bigger than one company, one platform, or one "social graph." We've got a bigger vision for what social means in the world, and here it is."
Wouldn't that be great?
Because honestly, I think the company does have a bigger vision, and I think it's rooted in the idea of instrumentation and multiples of signals (as in, scores if not thousands of signals understood to be social in nature). In other words, there is not one "ring to rule them all" – there is no one monoculture of what "social" means. For now, it appears that way. Just like it appears that there's one tablet OS. But the world won't shake out that way – we're far too complicated as humans to relegate our identity to a single platform. It will be distributed, nuanced, federated. And it should be instrumented and controlled by the individual. At least, I sure hope it will be.
Google might as well declare this up front and call it a strategy. In that context, it might even make sense to do further Facebook integration in the near term, as one of many signals, of course. Google already uses some limited Facebook data (scroll down), but clearly has decided to not lean in here (or can't come to terms with Facebook around usage policies). Clearly the two companies are wary of working together. But it's my hope that over time, whether or not they do should be a moot issue.
Why? Because I view my Facebook data as, well, mine. Now, that may not really be the case, but if it's mine, I should be able to tell Google to use it in search, or not. That's an instrumentation signal I should be able to choose. Just like I can chose to use my Facebook identity to log into this blog, or any number of other sites and services. It should be my choice, not Facebook's, and not Google's either.
Switch the control point to the customer, and this issue sort of goes away. I have a longer post in me about "social clothing" – came up on a phone call with Doc Searls yesterday – and hopefully when I get to that, this might make a bit more sense….


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Quarterly Journal of the Georgia Ornithological Society
Volume 6x, Month 20xx, Number x
Nathan A. Klaus
Nongame Wildlife and Natural Heritage Section
Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Wildlife Resources Division
116 Rum Creek Drive
Forsyth, GA 31029
Golden-winged Warblers (Vermivora chrysoptera) were considered fairly common summer residents in North Georgia when Burleigh wrote Georgia Birds in the 1950s. There are numerous records for Golden-winged Warblers during this time, and they were found in at least five counties: Fannin, Dawson, Union, Towns, Dade, and possibly, a sixth, Whitfield (Burleigh 1958). There is also substantial evidence that Golden-winged Warblers were common in the Southern Appalachians, including North Georgia, during the 1800s if not earlier. One of the earliest ornithological explorations of the Southern Appalachians (Brewster 1886) found Golden-winged Warblers to be quite common, especially in open oak savannah and second growth on hillsides (implying then that they were found in both logged and unlogged areas). It is interesting to note that nothing resembling open oak savannah remains in the Southern Appalachians, probably due to fire suppression and historic logging. This may explain the apparent dependence of Golden-winged Warblers upon artificial habitats such as clearcuts that are found today (Klaus 2001). In addition to William Brewsters and Burleigh's well-documented records, a nest was found in Georgia in 1859 by Alexander Gerhardt (Burleigh 1958).
In recent decades populations appear to have declined dramatically. Nowhere in the Southern Appalachians can Golden-winged Warblers be considered common, probably due to changes in habitat availability. Besides the elimination of open oak savannahs frequented by Golden-winged Warblers in Brewsters time, changes in land use have further reduced available habitat. Clearcutting, which provides valuable habitat for this species (Klaus 2001), is a management tool rarely used today by the major landowner in the area, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). The USFS owns nearly half of some counties within the historic Georgia range of Golden-winged Warblers (i.e. Union County, 45% USFS). Furthermore lands at suitable elevation for Golden-winged Warblers (generally greater than 2,800 ft) throughout the Southern Appalachians are nearly all owned and managed by the USFS. The reduction of early succession habitat on USFS lands is a likely a major cause of the decline of this species of warbler. Private land in North Georgia, which once consisted of subsistence farms and which provided habitat in the form of old fields and woodlots, is today, composed of primary and secondary homes, usually with either mature forest or residential lawns. Combined, these changes in land use on public and private land are probably responsible for the widespread elimination of Golden-winged Warblers from North Georgia. This includes numerous areas noted by Burleigh and others for their Golden-winged Warbler populations, which are no longer occupied, including: Blood Mountain, Young Harris, Lake Winfield Scott, and Ivy Log. Very little new habitat has been created in the last decade, leading to serious concerns for this species viability in North Georgia and throughout the Southern Appalachians.
North Georgia was systematically surveyed for Golden-winged Warblers, between April1 and June 15, 1999-2003. In 2002, we surveyed as part of the Golden-winged Warbler atlas project of Cornell University. We used 1:24,000 U.S. Geological Survey quad maps and satellite imagery to identify routes running through likely habitat. In addition all known historic sites were surveyed. Sites were generally visited between the second week of May and the second week of June, before 11:00. A roadside survey method of one to two minutes of listening, followed by playback of the Type I and Type II Golden-winged Warbler calls (Ficken and Ficken 1967), concluding with at least five additional minutes of listening was used in all likely-looking habitats. Forest stand inventory data (CISC) was searched on public lands, and all clearcuts of suitable age (<10 years) and elevation (>2,800 ft) were visited and surveyed on the Brasstown, Tallulah, Toccoa, and Cohutta ranger districts using the above methods, along with any suitable habitat encountered along the way. Many sites with apparently good habitat that were initially found to be unoccupied were revisited on subsequent years. Nest searching was conducted opportunistically at occupied sites. All known occupied sites were revisited in subsequent years.
Over four years we spent about 230 hours searching nine North Georgia counties: Murray, Gilmer, Fannin, Lumpkin, Union, Towns, White, Rabun, and Habersham. Dade County and Whitfield County were not searched though they have historic records. As there have been no breeding season records of Golden-winged Warblers in these latter two counties for several decades, we elected to spend our time in areas with recent records. Approximately 75% of our time was spent surveying from roads; the remaining 25% was spent surveying likely clearcuts on USFS land.
Six sites were found occupied (Figure 1), five within 10 miles of one another. Three of the five sites were on private land in old field habitat (the Johnny Gap sites); one was in an area damaged by hurricane Opal and later salvage-logged (Brawley Mtn.), and one was at the site of an intense fire (Chestnut Mtn.). Sixteen Golden-winged Warblers (not including hybrids) were seen over four years (Table 1). Very little early succession habitat was encountered at locations of suitable elevations.
Though no nests were found, evidence of reproduction was observed at two sites. On May 7, 1999 at the Johnny Gap 1 site, the female of the pair was seen carrying nesting material. A thorough search revealed no nest and it was assumed that nest building was in its earliest stages. Unfortunately, the site was not revisited later that season and was taken over by Blue-winged Warblers (Vermivora pinus) the following year. On June 4, 2002 at the Brawley Mtn. site, two indications of reproduction were witnessed. The first involved a female Lawrences Warbler, which responded to the Type II Golden-winged Warbler playback. She approached within 20 feet carrying what appeared to be a Lepidopteron larvae and flew off within a few minutes. She was later seen two other times making trips (assumed to be carrying food) in a similar heading, but no nest or young were located. To our knowledge this is the first record of a Vermivora chrysoptera x Vermivora pinus hybrid nesting in Georgia, though this is not unexpected, since most Golden-winged Warbler populations in Georgia are sympatric with Blue-winged Warblers.
Approximately two hours after the sighting of the female Lawrences Warbler, a male Golden-winged Warbler was seen carrying food. Upon following his line of flight over several trips, five recently fledged (still downy) Golden-winged Warblers were discovered being fed by the male and foraging in a recently logged area. Though the young were observed over the next two hours, no female was seen in their vicinity. It is assumed that the female Lawrences Warbler was not their parent since she was seen in a different location, and carried her food in a different direction. In addition, all five young appeared to be phenotypically pure.
It is likely that not all occupied sites were surveyed, either because they were not identified as potential habitat on our maps or because they were not accessible. Because of these limitations this count cannot be considered a true measure of this species population in Georgia. However, these data can serve as an index of the change in this species numbers. Golden-winged Warblers can no longer be considered common in any sense of the word, representing a severe decline from higher population levels found in both the 1800s, and from those of just a few decades past. Such data are extremely useful to direct management for this species since it indicates that most of our known remaining Golden-winged Warblers are concentrated in a relatively small area.
The first priority in managing this species should be to augment remaining populations, although it is unlikely that Georgia's population(s) is viable on its own. It is estimated that 1,000 breeding pairs are necessary for a species dependent upon ephemeral habitat to have a viable population; viability in this case being defined as having a 95% probability of being extant in 100 years (Thomas 1990). Luckily wildlife populations do not recognize political boundaries. North Carolina still maintains a sizeable population of Golden-winged Warblers, especially on the Cheoah and Wayah ranger districts of the Nantahala National Forest. By maintaining connectivity (grouped patches of early succession habitat along high elevations) to the North Carolina Golden-winged Warbler population it is likely that North Georgia populations can continue at least as a meta-population. Besides augmenting existing populations, maintaining this connectivity through the strategic creation of habitat at appropriate elevations should be a management priority. Relatively small patches of apparently suitable habitat, which go unoccupied, are probably the result of lack of viability. Lacking a source population to fill this habitat, these potential sites go unoccupied.
Loss of suitable habitat is extirpating Georgia's Golden-winged Warbler populations and threatens to eliminate them from the southeast. Creating new habitat through a combination of prescribed fire or timber harvests is the only way to keep this species in the Southern Appalachians. Although some may advocate prescribed fire alone to create Golden-winged Warbler habitat, only one site in the Southern Appalachians known to have Golden-winged Warblers was created through fire, Chestnut Mountain. This site was only found occupied in 2002. Using fire of this intensity may not be practical in many areas to create habitat, but it is interesting to note that natural forces, such as fire, are capable of creating habitat for this species of warbler. Unfortunately, these natural forces have been suppressed for nearly a century, even in designated wilderness areas. It is implausible to rely on natural forces to provide early succession habitat while actively suppressing wildfire. Using timber harvests to establish early succession habitat, followed by repeated fires of manageable intensity to maintain it may be a more practical approach. Although the use of fire to maintain high elevation early succession habitat was until recently theoretical, Golden-winged Warblers seemed to respond well to prescribed fire in 2003 on Brawley Mountain.
Georgia's Golden-winged Warbler populations have dramatically declined in recent decades. Populations in adjacent Tennessee and North Carolina face similar threats and are experiencing dramatic declines. Without coordinated active management on the part of the USFS and state wildlife agencies, the long-term viability of the Southern Appalachian population of Golden-winged Warblers is in question. Georgia once supported a sizeable population of Golden-winged Warblers and can again make a significant contribution to the conservation of this species.
Thanks to Jim Wentworth, Andrew Gaston, Pierre Howard and Giff Beaton for their many hours of help surveying North Georgia. Thanks also to Dot Freeman for leads on where to look and for information on historic sites.
Literature Cited
Brewster, W. 1886. An ornithological reconnaissance in western North Carolina. Auk 3:94-112, 173-179.
Burleigh, T. D. 1958. Georgia Birds. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman Oklahoma. 746pp.
Ficken, M. S., and R. W. Ficken. 1967. Singing behavior of blue-winged and golden-winged warblers and their hybrids. Behavior 28:149-181.
Klaus, N. A. and D. A. Buehler. 2001. Golden-winged Warbler breeding habitat characteristics and nest success in clearcuts in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Wilson Bull. 113:297-301
Thomas, C. D. 1990. What do real population dynamics tell us about minimum viable population sizes? Conservation Biology 4:324-327.
Figure 1. Area surveyed and site found occupied by Golden-winged Warblers, 1999-2003. Areas in black are USFS, white lines are major roads, and black lines are county lines. Areas found occupied by Golden-winged Warblers are indicated with a cross.
Table 1. Locations of all Golden-winged Warbler and hybrid sites found through survey efforts, 1999-2003.


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