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A Fameball's Slow Crack-Up

Ryan Tate · 01/25/09 07:20PM

Jakob Lodwick became a millionaire brokering hipster attention on video-sharing site Vimeo. Now, years later, the former dealer can't stop using, and it seems to be driving him crazy.

The Inconsistencies in Rex Sorgatz's Story

Ryan Tate · 01/14/09 11:55PM

First New York bloggers were incensed by Rex Sorartz's caddish self-promotion in the New York Observer; now fellow Midwesterners are raising questions about the life story he floated in the paper.

Becoming A Brand: Pointless

Ryan Tate · 01/04/09 11:41PM

One of the biggest brand-called-you practitioners is calling the whole notion into question. Tech pundit Sarah Lacy publishes in four or five media and wonders what the point is.