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Entries Tagged as 'blogging'

First Shot in the Clone Wars: Redefining “Professional”

January 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Manifestos

by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC & Professional Provocateur…
I recently got some fan mail about : “I was liking your article, as I have others that I’ve read… However, I soon found the in-your-face political opinion rude and quite unprofessional to say the least. I just wanted to read a good professional [...]

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Just Break 'Em: Not So Cool Rules in Marketing and Media

August 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Manifestos

by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC
For all our talk of freedom, we Americans LOVE rules…

Our favorite sport, football, has the most rules of any sport on the planet.

Poker players make up new rules with every hand (“threes and hearts are wild except for the Queen, which you can pass to [...]

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Black and White and Dead All Over: Can Journalism Survive Free Riders?

August 2nd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Manifestos, Media News

by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC
It’s tough watching an old friend slowly die. Even tougher knowing that you’re helping to knock him off.
Before you go calling 911, the old friend I’m referring to is my daily newspaper. For decades, I’ve started every day with my morning paper. I score my [...]

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Expressing My Inner TURFgeek: How I Became a Professional Sportswriter for a Day

July 7th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Atomic Tango News

by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC
Somebody my size with my athletic ability doesn’t play for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Picture an over-caffeinated chicken on a greased trampoline. It’s just not in my genetic cards.
So I did the next best thing: I wrote a bad-ass essay about the team. Actually a few [...]

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Untweetable: Why Twitter Fever Isn't For Everyone

January 20th, 2009 · 20 Comments · How To Tips, Media Review

by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC
When I was a kid, the object of all crayon lust was the Crayola 64 box with the built-in sharpener, because a dull crayon was almost as bad as soggy Cocoa Pebbles. And yet, that Crayola 64 contained some bizarre colors like Maize, Burnt Sienna [...]

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Cool Rules Pronto's Greatest Hits (So Far)

August 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Atomic Tango News

Ever laugh at career retrospectives by people who are still getting started — or who never really got off the ground? I mean, really, how can the band The Goo Goo Dolls be upon their second volume of greatest hits already? I didn’t even know they ever had more than one hit.
Well, I’m about to [...]

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"Your Skin Color is not a Stain!": L.A. Teen Takes on Unilever's Bigotry

July 12th, 2008 · 14 Comments · Case Studies, Media News

Delia Rose is mad as hell. In her usually lighthearted and witty blog, Impeach the Muffins, the L.A. teenager is calling for a boycott of Unilever. The reason? The skin-whiteners that the corporate behemoth distributes and promotes in Malaysia and other Eastern countries…

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Uh Oh: Death By Blogging

April 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Media News

According to the New York Times, three prominent bloggers suffered serious heart attacks in the past five months — Russell Shaw, Marc Orchant, and Om Malik — with Shaw and Orchant going to that big blogosphere in the sky. (May you have infinite comments and pingbacks for all eternity.)

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That Great Big Sexy Mistake: 5 Reasons Not To Use Flash

March 4th, 2008 · 11 Comments · How To Tips

A Flash-based website is like a supermodel date: awesome to look at, but after a while, you’ll just want someone who can carry on a conversation…*

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Name Dropping Rules: A Blogging Tip

January 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Atomic Tango News, How To Tips

I love checking my blog stats, not just the raw numbers of views, but also such info as where my traffic is coming from. That’s how I discovered that my article on Wal-Mart had been cited by the Wall Street Journal. Woohoo — I’ve got Street cred!
I’m most intrigued by the search-engine terms that lead [...]

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