Browsing archives for January, 2008

Why do all successful people have to be assholes?

Legit Moguls,Wannabe Viewpoint 30 January 2008 | View Comments

Note: I apologize if the word “asshole” offends you, but for the purpose of this post, I am going to have to use the word quite a bit. Earmuffs please. I got into a little debate over at On Moneymaking tonight about whether you have to be an asshole to be successful. Jon’s post there [...]

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Book Review: Game Over: Press Start to Continue shows what Nintendo taught Microsoft

Legit Moguls,Wannabe Viewpoint 28 January 2008 | View Comments

In what can only be described as the fulfillment of my winter break spiral towards greater levels of nerd-dom, I spent my free time reading Game Over: Press Start to Continue: The Maturing of Mario by David Sheff with some new chapters contributed by Andy Eddy. Sheff and Eddy’s narrative works both as a fan [...]

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Why I thought Heath Ledger wasn’t really dead: viral marketing theories and epiphanies

Great Ideas,Wannabe Viewpoint,Web Culture 23 January 2008 | View Comments

When I heard the news that Heath Ledger was found dead yesterday, I couldn’t help being a little skeptical. Not to be disrespectful of the dead, but I thought in the first minutes of the reports that it might all be a clever ruse by a very risky marketing team. Let me take you back [...]

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I am a passionate worker, not a workaholic

Wannabe Viewpoint,Working Class 16 January 2008 | View Comments

I work two jobs. My first job is a day job that pays me enough to be full-time where I get to practice public relations, and my second job is blogging on my three current sites, ugachaka.net, Fantasy Football Fools and here at wannabeMogul.com, which doesn’t exactly pay me full-time but one can always dream. [...]

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