Random

I know this doesn’t have anything to do with advertising, but I just saw that they’ve released the trailer for the new James Bond film which will be released in the US on November 7th. For those of you that don’t know me personally, let me explain by saying that I am a hardcore 007 fan. I even used to have the laser disk release of Diamonds are Forever because it featured the alternate audio/music track (which can now be found on recent releases of the box-set and/or on fan releases).

This should be a good one, I think Daniel Craig was a good choice to play a young James Bond, meanwhile I thought Pierce Brosnan was a horrible choice to play the role at any age.

You can visit their site to view some behind the scenes clips from the upcoming release or enter their sweepstakes.

6 Career Tips from Jeremiah Owyang. - Great advice for anyone, even those who find themselves in that grey area of not knowing what career path to take.

New Ways To Find Business Mentors from GeekPreneur. Some tips on how to find successful entrepreneurs who are willing to lend a helping hand/give advice.

Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - A great article on how Pixar tries to keep their employees in a constant state of collaboration, including having the bathrooms centralized to help avoid the emergence of workplace segmentation.

Zivity hires Napster Co-founder Jordan Ritter as CTO - this should be interesting - sleazy executive finally lands the gig he’s been waiting for… a fully-funded soft-core porn startup.

How To Get A Job In Venture Capital - Interesting follow-up to a previous article on how to break into the funding side of the business.

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Wow, I honestly was kidding about having people pay you to post - I really didn’t think someone was dumb enough to actually go ahead and do it!

Anyhow, shortly after my previous article on the demise of copyranter’s blog, I learned that the site was not going to be shut-down as originally planned….It’s kind of like when people claim they’re going to delete their twitter account…. or stop drinking…. it never really lasts long… and although it’s late news to most, the guy has managed to finagle his way into a deal that will keep him online.

He claims that he’ll keep posting on his regular blog, however from now on he’s on payroll over at the Animal New York website…. so go check-out his work there. If we are really lucky, his posts there will be as equally, if not more (now that he’s being paid) stimulating than ever before.
Sadly, no mention of brentter.com on his “I’m back and promise it wasn’t a joke but really needed the money” post, although agencyspy did get a shout-out…. hmmm… payola perhaps? Or have you just been a fan of their recent rips on JWT? (I guess I should consider it a compliment that I wasn’t grouped in with the likes of adage.com)

On a serious note though, congrats on the victory.

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