by Freddy J. Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango LLC & Business Lit Connoisseur Note: The following is meant to be satirical. The author has no affiliation with the Harvard Business Review or any idea what its editors could possibly be thinking. For 88 years, the Harvard Business Review has been the authoritative voice of critical [...]
Tags:academic journals·business publishing·Facebook·Goldman Sachs·Harvard Business Review·HBR·journalism·Mark Zuckerberg·satire·spoof·Twitter·Umair Haque
by Freddy J. Nager, Twitter Scout and Founder of Atomic Tango LLC Critical times like these spawn critical questions: How do we provide healthcare to 300 million people? Can conflicts over culture and religion ever be resolved? If wind blows into one of Sarah Palin’s ears will it come out the other? But the question [...]
by Freddy J. Nager, Screenwriter Wannabe and Part-Time Tweeter INT. CORPORATE CUBE FARM – DAY One guy is following another guy really closely. “I’m following you, so just follow me back, OK, OK, just follow me, please follow me, follow follow…”
My friend and primo YouTube dude Kevin “Nalts” Nalty just let loose his take on social media. He calls his article “The Stupidest,” but I found it way more insightful than most of the tripe posing as social media advice.
Tags:Facebook·Kevin Nalty·marketing·Nalts·Robert Scoble·satire·social media·spoof·Tony Robbins·Twitter
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC I’ve been on a blogging hiatus in order to complete grading my students’ exams. (And you thought I was on vacation — ha! We marketers never rest!) Then I came across this spoof of the next version of Apple’s operating system, Mac OSX Cougar. [...]
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC The following is a satirical work of fiction. Those easily offended should surf to safer territory now… In the wake of Michael Jackson’s massive, media-saturated funeral, several Hollywood celebrities are reportedly looking into how they can make sure their own forthcoming funerals are as [...]
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by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC When “Battlestar Galactica” concluded, its fans lamented that the series had to end, but were thrilled that it departed on a good note. Compare that to the fans of “Lost,” who are saying “WTF?!” after its later episodes. Then there are the still-hurting fans [...]
Tags:Battlestar Galactica·Blade Runner·Dollhouse·entertainment·Firefly·Hollywood·JJ Abrams·Josh Friedman·Joss Whedon·Lost·satire·sci-fi·science fiction·screenplay·script·spoof·Star Trek·television·Terminator·TV·Versus
by Freddy J. Nager, Founder & Fusion Director, Atomic Tango LLC Over my fifteen years of working in website development, I’ve encountered some bizarre and fascinating characters rivaled only by the people who gravitate to show business. Here are just a few I’ve met — perhaps you recognize some of them?…
Tags:dotcoms·Flash·satire·Silicon Valley·spoof·Twitter·Web 2.0·web design·web development
Now here’s a site that takes borrowed interest to a new extreme. The Pomegranate Phone is an all-in-one device that makes the iPhone look like a hockey puck. It’s got it all: web surfing, MP3 player, video projector, voice translator… Sounds pretty cool, right? Then, of course, there’s the built-in coffee maker, harmonica, and a [...]
Tags:advertising·borrowed interest·CGI·cool website·Flash·gadgets·iPhone·Pomegranate Phone·spoof·viral marketing
INT. DINING ROOM – MORNING: HANK PAULSON and his teenage daughter PRINCESS are having breakfast. We can’t see his face because he’s reading the Financial Times, chuckling to himself. She’s toying around with her half-eaten Froot Loops in a fine china bowl…
Tags:business·business plans·economics·finance·Henry Paulson·humor·investing·satire·spoof·Wall Street Bailout
"Common sense is the little man in a gray suit who never makes a mistake at addition, but it's always someone else's money he's adding up."
- Raymond Chandler
Let's hear it for uncommon sense: that inner itch that inspires you to stray from the herd, ditch the training wheels and leap into the fast lane. As we all know, it's the risk takers who get their faces on the cover of Wired magazine and their words on National Public Radio. No one ever remembers who won "honorable mention"...
Cool Rules Pronto celebrates uncommon sense in marketing and media. It's written by Freddy J. Nager, the Founder & Fusion Director of the L.A.-based creative strategy agency Atomic Tango, and marketing instructor at UCLA Extension, the University of Wales, and Antioch University L.A.
