(Altucher) shares his insecurities and psychic traumas with 30,000 Twitter followers and on his blog, the Altucher Confidential, which he says has had 10 million page views since he launched it a year ago.  His self-published book, I Was Blind But Now I See, has ranked as high as No. 2 this year in Amazon.com’s motivational book category, and he’s publishing a comic book about his life.  “I think the role James fulfills in the post-crash world is beacon of hope,” says Joshua Brown, a financial adviser who blogs as the Reformed Broker.  “I know it sounds corny, but no one has been more forthcoming about how the torn economic fabric of this country has affected him personally. The message is always centered around him still being here – that there’s life after financial near-death.”