Jun
29
2008
I just love that word “Schadenfreude,” don’t you? In its original German, Schadenfreude (the word is capitalized in German, so I will stay true to that rule here) refers to the pure joy and delight that one gets from the misfortunes of others. While it’s not exactly a high minded concept, or anything close to being [...]
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Jun
21
2008
One of the toughest challenges in marketing today is coming up with a compelling name for your company, product, service, website, whatever. As pretty much everyone knows, creating an effective name — for which you can secure a decent URL and clear trademark rights — is incredibly difficult in a world where thousands of new websites and [...]
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Jun
06
2008
I am sure you have already read too many postmortems on Barack Obama’s historic win of the Democratic primary nomination this week. Senator Obama’s achievement was so much more impressive because he had to beat Hillary Clinton, a formidable politician and candidate who started the campaign as the anointed leader with virtually all the institutional support, the money, the [...]
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