Dynamic Incompetence.

"A disaster happens to many, many of our best scientists. They become administrators. And the day thay do that, they're lost to science. So you never want to become an administrator. You have to guard against that. Be a dynamic incompetent. Do at least three outrageous acts a year. Then noone will want you to be an administrator."

Hans Suess 1957

Fix The Unrecognised Problem.

Regardless of whether this is a spoof or not, it emphasises that the oft-stated maxim of "meeting a customer need that they didn't know they had" is only part of the story. You also have to do it in a way that is obviously practical, hard to improve upon and about which the users will be openly and convincingly passionate. Obtaining that traction is difficult and that's why so many product launches fail.

Make Poverty History.

Shameless is a successful TV series featuring what is colloquially termed an underclass family. So it was interesting to hear its writer Paul Abbott talk about poverty recently.

He asserted that it was increasingly not just a matter of lack of material possessions and it's well accepted that people can be materially better off, but still suffer the stigma of poverty in terms of aspiration and opportunity.

But his most thought-provoking idea was that the first thing they do when they have any money is to buy clothes and accoutrements (he cited Burberry) in an attempt to appear not to be in poverty. The irony of this, in his words, is that this has the reverse effect.

The glib lesson is that people see through the superficial, but I think there is something much more significant here. As yet, however, I'm not sure what it is.


Photo courtesy of www.mrpaparazzi.com

Eyebrows Might Be Raised.

Jane McGonigal made a great comment on my T-mobile post suggesting the increasing need for an advertising strategy to have

clearly better design for actual participation and less spectacle. it's only good to provoke awe and wonder if you then give people the means to produce it themselves.

So here's one I found earlier that's clearly easy for people to imitate and recreate. I wonder if any agency will utilise it. Tonight perhaps?

Tools Of The Trade.

The arrival of every new social media tool, be it Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed or whatever, is inevitably followed by conversations about the best way to use it for marketing purposes. Ideas are floated, advice is offered and someone creates a best practice guide.

And there's nothing wrong with that. Except that it's putting the cart before the horse. It's fine, indeed imperative, to know what the new tools do. But before you use any of them, you have to be certain of the context in which you're marketing and the goals which you're seeking to achieve.

Only then should you look at the tools available so as to decide which of them, if any, are best suited to meeting those goals. Tactics follow strategy - not the other way round.

Price Competition.

Premium is the price for continuous performance. For both you and your customers, it's worth it.

Recognise Your Own Bubble.

Last April when this rickrolling flashmob took place in London, there were rumours of commercial sponsorship and friends told me there were as many spectators as participants. The words jumping shark came to mind.

So, last week when I read some press coverage about how the ad below had been shot guerilla-style the day before and was to debut on Friday night, my immediate reaction was one of shrugging disenchantment. The usual suspects of plagiarism, bandwagons and unimaginative creatives raised their heads. But maybe that's unfair.

While I don't know if it's a good ad or contrived nonsense, it's reminded me that we all have to be very careful not to assume that our experience/worldview is that of the majority. Most people probably don't know the term flashmob, the YouTube views are not high, and real life does not revolve around online memes. If everybody knew what you knew, then you wouldn't have much to talk about would you?

Interesting Answers.

The most interesting answers are those responding to questions you hadn't thought of asking.

So, you can go to the usual conferences and hear the usual debates or you go to something like Bookcamp/Papercamp and be made simultaneously to feel dumb and truly inspired. Your choice.

Cara Pasang Flash di Blog

Untuk memasang flash ke dalam blog cukuplah mudah. Yang kamu perlukan yaitu file flash yang biasanya ber-extensi .swf lalu upload file tersebut ke hosting. misal di geocities.com ato 000webhost ato tempat hosting lainnya. File animasi flash tersebut bisa dijadikan hiasan pada blog ato bisa juga dijadikan hiasan di header sehingga membuat blog menjadi lebih animatif. Untuk memasang flash pada blog caranya sebagai berikut :

1. Login ke blogger kemudian pilih menu "Layout".
2. Kemudian klik link "Add a gadget" dimana akan ditempatkan animasi flash.
3. Pilih "HTML/Javascript" kemudian taruh script berikut :

<embed src="http://blogoholic.info/wellcome.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="white" width="500" height="100" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi? P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed>

Contoh :


* Ganti "http://blogoholic.info/wellcome.swf" dengan alamat file flash kamu yang telah ditaruh di hosting.
* Ganti width="500" height="100 dengan ukuran dari file flashmu.

Three Degrees Of Marketing Insights.

1) Insights That Aren’t. (The Not)

Also known as statements of the obvious, the untrue or the uninteresting.

Example
A fast food company discovers they are selling a lot of milkshakes in the morning.

Not really interesting.


2) Insights That Reveal Unknown Behaviour (The What)

Example
A fast food company discovers they are selling a lot of milkshakes in the morning to commuting adults.

Interesting as far as it goes. But, as Richard Huntington outlines here, an insight is not worth either that name or your time if it is not an astonishing disclosure.


3) Insights That Identify A new Market (The Why)

Example
A fast food company discovers they are selling a lot of milkshakes to commuting adults who like that they can enjoy them for the duration of their car journey.

This awareness led to adaptations of the packaging and the utensils provided with it directly focused upon the needs of the commuting milkshake drinker.

The best insights are those that lead to new product development rather than just new promotion. They're hard to find but they're worth the search.

Instal Paksa Paket Debian Di Fedora

Paket Debian Crossover 6 Proffesional Menginsalasi Microsoft Office 2003 Dengan Baik Di Fedora 5

Nero Linux 3.5 Full, Berjalan Dengan Lancar Di Fedora 5, Meski Hasil Instalasi Paksa Paket Debian

Curhat saya kali ini adalah kelanjutan dari posting saya sebelumnya. Singkat cerita, setelah desktop Fedora Core 5 terinstal dan teroprek dengan apik di komputer rekan saya, saya diliputi oleh rasa penasaran yang cukup mendalam. Kenapa? Karena pada waktu yang lalu, melalui searching di internet, saya menemukan paket instalasi Crossover 6 Proffesional dan NeroLinux 3.5 + Keygen. Saya sangat ingin menginstalasinya. Namun apa yang salah? Kedua paket non-free tersebut berbentuk paket instalasi untuk Debian (dengan ekstensi .deb), sementara kita ketahui bersama paket instalasi untuk Fedora adalah rpm.

Saya ingat ada aplikasi converter paket Linux yang bernama Alien. Yang bisa mengconvert paket instalasi debian ke rpm, tgz dan sebaliknya dengan mudah. Namun saya pun tak punya paket alien berbentuk rpm untuk Fedora. Di tengah-tengah ketidak-puasan, saya iseng-iseng dengan kedua paket debian itu. Hal pertama yang terpikir adalah apa yang ada dalam paket debian tersebut. Saat iseng, saya coba mengekstrak paket debian tersebut dengan aplikasi ekstraktor built-in di nautilus. Dan eureka, paket debian bisa di ekstrak. Langsung saya lihat, dan terdiri dari dua paket tarbal di dalamnya : data.tar.gz dan control.tar.gz !

Tanpa piker panjang, saya ekstrak lagi kedua paket tarbal tersebut, dan eureka lagi, kedua paket tarbal itu berisi sekumpulan folder dengan bermacam file konfigurasi teks file binari. data.tar.gz berisi folder dengan paket instalasi yang akan dimasukan ke system, sementara control.tar.gz berisi file teks konfigurasi. Nampaknya berhubungan dengan desktop-intergration. Entah! Saya tidak peduli dengan file konfigurasi. Saya buka folder hasil ekstrakan data.tar.gz dan ternyata berisi folder tujuan instalasi, yaitu /usr/lib dan /usr/bin. Di dalam folder /bin tidak diragukan lagi disitulah letak file binarinya. Dan ternyata benar juga, saat saya jalankan file binari ./nero di terminal, ada respon yang mengatakan bahwa library ini-itu belum dipasang. Sepintas saya langsung paham, dan segera saya login ke root, dan saya pindah semua folder ekstrakan tersebut ke tujuan masing-masing. Pun dengan folder /usr/bin, saya pindah ke system. Setelah itu, saya masuk ke system tadi, dan saya jalankan ulang ./nero, ternyata JALAN! Wuih! Saya senang sekali. Namun kesenangan saya berhenti ketika bagaiman cara menjalankan file binari tadi dengan mudah, misal dengan tombol run Alt+F2? Saya pun teringat akan eksperimen yang hampir sama, ketika saya menginstal HelpExlporer beberapa waktu yang lalu. Untuk bisa dijalankan lewat run, file binari harus ada di direktori /bin. Tanpa ragu saya langsung buat symbolic link dari /usr/bin/nero ke /bin/nero. Setelah itu saya jalankan run dengan mengetik nero, dan Wow! Berhasil!

Pun dengan paket Crossover, yang ternyata folder tujuan instalasinya hanya diletakan dalam satu folder, yaitu /opt, bukan /usr/bin. Yang lebih mengesankan, ternyata file binari Crossover merupakan file binari yang bersifat static-linked. Alias bisa dijalankan dengan hanya meng-klik dobel pada file binari, persis seperti file executable windows. Untuk yang ini, saya makin tidak bingung, langsung saya pindah ke /opt dan saya buat symbolic link dari /opt/cxoffice ke /bin. Setelah selesai, saya jalankan run cxsetup, Alhamdulillah, berhasil lagi.

Sungguh iseng-iseng yang luar-biasa, dari sini saya jadi paham sistematika instalasi software di linux. Intinya adalah adanya kesaling-terkaitan antara library dan file binari. Dan mengenai peletakan file binari, bisa dimana saja, yang umumnya ada di /usr/ atau /usr/bin, /opt/ atau /bin.

Inti dari cerita saya ini, dapat saya simpulkan sebagai berikut :

Semua paket Linux berisi file binari dan library, yang akan dimasukan ke system, dan sudah ada dalam paket tersebut. (misal, jika akan diinstal ke /usr, maka isi dari paket instalasi akan ada folder /usr/nama-paket). Dan pada dasarnya kita bisa meletakan file binari dimanapun, dan yang terpenting adalah agar file binari bisa terbaca, pembuatan symbolic link ke direktori /bin adalah harus.

Langkah-langkahnya adalah :

1. Ekstrak paket instalasi Linux, apa saja. Debian, rpm, tgz.
2. Masuk ke folder hasil ekstraksi, dan lihat folder apa yang ada, jika yang ada folder /usr, maka masukan folder hasil ekstraksi tersebut ke /usr. Folder /usr/lib, masukan library software hasil ekstrakan tersebut ke /usr/lib. Jika folder hasil ekstrakan berisi folder /opt, maka masukan folder software tersebut ke /opt. Dan seterusnya.
3. Setelah meletakan semua folder hasil ekstraksi yang berisi binari dan library ke tempatnya masing-masing yang ingin di tuju, jangan lupa buatlah symbolic link dari direktori binari software tersebut ke direktori /bin, yang merupapakan direktori berisi symbolic link dari macam-macam paket yang ada di system. Setelah semua dilakukan, hingga pembuatan symbolic link, berarti langkah terakhir adalah, Selamat Menikmati! Kita telah berhasil menginstalasi paket Linux secara manual, tanpa batasan jenis paket instalasi (debian, rpm atau tgz).

CATATAN

Eksperimen saya tersebut berhasil dengan lancar untuk paket non-free yang tidak membutuhkan manajemen dependensi paket dengan sistem yang rumit. Jika kita akan menginstalasi secara manual paket free Linux, tentu saja akan lebih rumit, karena kita harus membuat symbolic link untuk librari yang dibutuhkan suatu paket, yang tidak akan bekerja tanpa library dengan versi yang sesuai. Paket Crossover 6 Proffesional dan NeroLinux 3.5 Full yang saya jadikan sampel, saya dapatkan dari hasil searching. Seyogyanya, kita tidak boleh menggunakan paket non-free yang memang dikomersialkan tanpa membelinya, walaupun itu dalam lingkup sistem free software dan linux.

Happy Hacking! Happy Linux-ing!

Balikan Dengan Si Sexi Fedora

Tampilan Desktop Fedora Core 5 Dengan Kustomisasi Tema Hijau

Tampilan Desktop Fedora Core 5 Dengan Kustomisasi Tema Hijau

Saya tidak menduga, ternyata iklan saya yang saya buat begitu meyakinkan, bisa meyakinkan rekan saya untuk menginstalasi Linux di komputernya. Yang lebih membuat saya berbunga-bunga, karena begitu yakinnya, rekan saya bahkan mau untuk hanya menginstalasi Linux dan menghapus OS Windows yang ada pada komputernya. Hal itu memang dipicu selain oleh tindakan saya “ngompor-ngompori” tetapi juga ditambah dengan serangan virus yang telah memporak-porandakan komputer rekan saya tersebut.

Walaupun bahagia, ternyata ada satu problem yang cukup mengganggu. Ternyata spesifikasi komputer rekan saya tersebut cukup merepotkan. Intel Celeron 1,8. Memory 256. On-Board Vga. Hardisk 20 G. CD-RW. Sepertinya cukup, namun ternyata tidak. Saya coba jalankan Ubuntu Hardy komputer rekan saya benar-benar hung. Aduh, saya cukup malu juga dengan rekan saya. Lalu saya coba LinuxMint 4 XFCE. Pun walau bisa jalan LiveCD, tetap hung saat proses instalasi. Runyam juga jadinya. Coba Zenwalk 5. Error juga. Coba Kubuntu 6.06. berhasil lancar, namun dimana paket ekstras-nya? Sementara mau pakai DVD yang penuh dengan paket ekstra komputer rekan saya hanya berbekal drive CD-RW.

Di tengah-tengah kebingungan, tiba-tiba saya teringat kalau saya mempunya 2 buah CD Igos Nusantara. 1 CD instalasi, dan 1 CD Repositori Ekstra. Wah, akhirnya. Walau saya teringat beberapa error yang pernah saya jumpai dengan distro yang sebenarnya Fedora Core 5 ini, saya tak ada pilihan. Dan benar juga, Alhamdulillah. Proses instalasi Igos Nusantara alias Fedora Core 5 berjalan sangat lancar. Setelah masuk desktop, tanpa masalah. Rekan saya pun langsung sangat bersemangat. Dan langsung antusias mencoba utak-atik Fedora. Saya pun sebenarnya agak lupa dengan Fedora : yum, pirut. Lupa-lupa ingat. Namun dalam sekejap pun saya ingat lagi bagaimana mengkonfigurasi repositori Fedora dengan yum dan pirut. Sebuah reuni yang menyenangkan. Maklum, setelah beberapa waktu saya pernah bergaul dengan Fedora, akhirnya saya memalingkan muka begitu saja dan setia ke Ubuntu. Alasannya sederhana, saya merasa Ubuntu adalah distro yang relatif stabil dibanding semua distro yang pernah saya kenal, atau bisa dikatakan paling aman.

Tidak ada yang benar-benar istimewa, cuma saya merasa nostalgia yang indah dengan Fedora, dan agar lebih enak dipandang, saya download tema ikon tambahan yang lebih eyecandy, dan jadilah Fedora Core 5 yang sudah jadul itu terasa seperti desktop baru yang indah, dan yang pasti cepat!

Ngomong-ngomong soal keindahan, saya jadi ingin membanding-bandingkan. Menurut saya, Fedora sebenarnya adalah distro yang sexy, menggairahkan. Kenapa? Karena tidak segampang Ubuntu dalam hal oprek-mengoprek, dan relatif rewel dalam hal mengalami error-error tertentu. Seperti ketika saya matikan paksa Fedora, saat boot lagi, tidak mau system dan tertulis kalau filesystem rusak. Akhitnya saya tau memang dalam hal tersebut Fedora lebih rewel daripada Ubuntu yang terkesan sangat stabil. Saya jadi tau juga kalau ada fsck. Ya, kalau Ubuntu lebih mirip dengan seorang perempuan anggun nan lembut, maka Fedora lebih mirip dengan seorang cewek seksi yang menantang dan rewel, namun menggairahkan. Butuh oprekisasi yang lebih telaten untuk bisa bergumul dan menikmati distro yang satu ini.

Highlight pada Script/Kode di Postingan

Memberikan Highlight untuk script atau kode pada postingan akan lebih memperjelas pembaca. Contohnya bisa kamu lihat pada blogku ini. Setiap kali ada script/kode maka akan selalu ada highlight (kotak) yg akan membedakan dengan tulisan yg lain. Nha kamu mau tahu cara pembuatamnya?

Gini nih caranya :
1. Login ke blogger lalu pilih Layout-->Edit HTML
2. Kemudian copy kode dibawah ini lalu pasang di Script CSS kamu atau pasang sebelum kode ]]></b:skin>

.alert { background: #DDE4FF;
text-align: left;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
border-top: 1px dotted #223344;border-bottom: 1px dotted #223344;border-left: 1px dotted #223344;border-right: 1px dotted #223344;}

Kode yang berwarna merah (#DDE4FF) adalah warna background kotak highlight, kamu bisa menggantinya dengan kode warna yang lain yang cocok dengan background blog kamu. Untuk kode-kode warna bisa dilihat DISINI

3. Kalau sudah kemudian Simpan.

Cara Posting
Supaya kode/scriptnya nanti bisa ada kotak highlight-nya maka untuk memposting harus pake cara2 tersendiri. Yaitu dengan menambahkan kode ini <p class="alert"> sebelum kode/script yg akan diberi highlight. kemudian ditambahkan kode </p> diakhir script/Kode.

Dah gitu aja, gampang kan

A Boycott Is For Life Not Just For January.

When Mark Earls invited me to join his admirable campaign to make January "b-word"-free, I had to turn him down – not because I don’t believe in resolutions, but because I try never to use that word.

It refers to nothing more and nothing less than reputation, reputation you earn by your behaviour or, more realistically, reputation which other people (customers or not) confer on you because of that. It’s not something you impose on others.

If you ask people about those reputations, I’m convinced that largely you’ll get a media-literate response (one you increasingly see in focus groups) that reflects their impression of what the advertising has sought to portray. But that is not necessarily a reflection of what the b***** truly is, unless of course you’re asking about a business that doesn’t advertise. And isn't it interesting how often it is those b***** that are lauded by the experts?

If your differentiation is your advertising (rather than your advertising reflecting your differentiation), then you have a big problem. Moroever, using the b word leads to dubious concepts like b***** values, laughable b***** extensions and, worst of all, branding.

As I’ve written before, it should never have been a verb. It reeks of superficiality, a stamp you put on something to assert its provenance, rather than its indisputable DNA.

So Mark is on the right track, as ever, but I’ll sign up only if he agrees to make this a permanent thing – because this is not a short-term issue, but a long-term failing. When you think in terms of branding you’re explicitly focusing internally on your business, your product and/or your service. But you’re in real danger of not focusing on your customers.


(photo courtesy of gemssty.com)

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Last Night A Rolex Saved My Life?

I don't really like contrived business acronyms. But the suggestion that successful businesses need to display the LATTE factor by being Local, Authentic, Traceable, Trusted and Ethical seems reasonable.

Especially when compared to the outlandish claim that, after attempting suicide,

the quality of a Rolex watch helped Owen (Wilson) realize and appreciate the quality of his own life.

More warped causality here.

Learn more about Website Hosting

Trying to identify a web hosting can be a very daunting task especially when there are so many available nowadays and all of them promise one thing or another because looking for and buying a reliable web hosting solution is an imperative decision. inding the best hosting service for your website can be complicated. The best way to select a quality web hosting is to take the selection process one step at a time.

If you are currently engaged in any facet of ecommerce, even service sectors, a website makes up a great deal of your business. Therefore, it is a safe assumption that you pay for hosting your website in some fashion. If you do not already have a dedicated server, perhaps you should revisit the decision for the best hosting options for your business.

Green hosting was scarce a few years ago, however, recently this type of web hosting has come into the limelight. There are a handful of companies who started off 100% green while others have gradually converted. Even some of the most widely known providers have made the switch to offer a more eco-friendly web hosting product. Many begin in the office by recycling waste paper and utilizing bio-fuel for heating purposes. This leads to the data centers where servers thrive off alternative sources such as wind, solar and geothermal energy. Some have went out and purchased RECs (Renewable Energy Credits), a certification which assures the company is using alternatives forms of power.

There are some who question the performance and overall reliability you receive with a green hosting platform. In actuality, renewable energy is proven to be just as reliable and effective as conventional electricity. Green hosts are successfully running their businesses just as everyone else is. Like the traditional provider is equipped with electrical backup sources, these companies are prepared to produce renewable energy to keep the operation flourishing.

In today's competitive world reliable web hosting is very critical especially for the success of online businesses. You need to seek a web hosting company that can provide you with these critical components and much more.

Phil Collins And Unintended Consequences.

CDs were promoted in terms of sound quality and digital compression. They were also smaller. But marketing expert, Phil Collins made the interesting point that it's also the first time music was one-sided. While this means that you don't have to turn it over, it also means that you don't need to be encouraged to turn it over.

Prior to this, albums were created so that the first and last track on each side were particularly strong. They focussed on keeping the listener excited/empassioned and wanting to turn over. On CDs, it's alleged that the first three or four tracks are the strong ones and the rest are filler because the assumption is that people will relisten to those and not go too deep into the album.

Whether or not that's true, it's clear how people would react. They would realise what was going on and, once the technology arrived, they would opt to download only those tracks they wanted and completely undermine an industry.

That's what happens if you don't bother to enthuse your users. They may not have to turn over anymore, but they will always have the option to turn off.

Choose a Good Email Marketing

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Linux Mint Dan Kebetulan Yang Aneh

Beberapa waktu yang lalu, sekali lagi ada rekan kuliah minta di-oprek-kan komputernya gara-gara windows-nya error, katanya sih terserang virus, masalah klasik. Setelah saya cek, ternyata langsung terjadi BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). Ketika saya restart, saya masuk safe mode, malah error, sepertinya masalah harddisk.

Mbuh, saya tidak mau pusing. Langsung saya pinjam CD instalasi windows xp dengan service pack-2 nya dan langsung saya boot (tentu saja yang saya punya windows versi “mahasiswa”). Proses lancar, tapi saat tengah-tengah instalasi tiba-tiba komputer hung total. Oh My God, What The Damned Is Going On? Dengan kesal saya ulangi, dan lagi-lagi mengalami masalah yang sama. Saya benar-benar bingung. Mungkin CD instalasi? Saya pun ganti dengan CD instalasi yang lain. Nihil! Tetap saja hung!

Dengan setengah frustasi dan iseng, saya coba live-cd-install Ubuntu Hardy. Lancar seratus persen! Saya pun langsung coba instal, dan eureka! Tanpa hambatan sedikitpun! Sungguh ajaib! Setelah saya pikir-pikir, rekan saya itu bukanlah linux-user, pasti bingung kalau tidak bisa memutar mp3. Lalu saya pun langsung teringat pada distro anaknya Ubuntu : LinuxMint. Distro indah nan elegan, dan siap pakai! Saya pun langsung burn LinuxMint 4.0 dan saya instal di komputer rekan saya. Tentu saja saya tambahi wine dan saya instal software populer windows : Winamp, Microsoft Office 2003 dan Adobe Photoshop (sangat ironis dan menyakitkan, karena saya pun hanya memiliki versi “mahasiswa” untuk software-software mahal itu, tapi demi kemajuan Linux, demi tujuan mulia).

Ternyata, kali ini Tuhan memberi saya kemudahan untuk “memaksa” rekan saya menggunakan Linux. Dan terberkatilah para pengembang LinuxMint. Distro yang indah dan easy-ready-to-use.

Now That's What I Call Differentiation.

With Sainsbury's offering anodised saucepans that are Twice As Stronger As Stainless Steel, it's clear that 2009 has started well.