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Rex Hammock’s RexBlog.com
The blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., the content marketing, strategy and media company founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tenn. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of the wiki, SmallBusiness.com.
RexBlog.com was created in August, 2000.
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Daily Archives: Monday, November 8, 2004
Ned and the first reader
Ned and the first reader: Ned Desmond, whose name may sound like a TV news anchorman, is the executive editor of Time Interactive and is the current featured guest on PaidContent.org’s ContentNext Blogview series.
Seth seethes
Seth seethes: Seth Godin evokes Lincoln, who I think once said something like, “Travelocity can fool some of the people some of the time, but may regret it if that person blogs.” Update: The WSJ (it’s free, this week) has … Continue reading
Election-year covers
Election-year covers: Chronologically, here are the Time & Newsweek covers that featured a candidate (or spouse) in 2004. Both magazines did a campaign related cover in late October that did not feature either candidate. (Cover archives: Time, Newsweek)
Sitting on it
Sitting on it: The Newsweek special election report, as blogged earlier, has lots of behind-the-scenes information the magazine agreed to hold until after November 2. The (pro-Bush) NY Post now editorializes that some of the information was so important it … Continue reading
Literacy for kids
Literacy for kids: Just ran across this press release about the organization, “magazine publishers family literacy project,” designed to provide magazine subscriptions to children whose family may otherwise not be able to afford them. Glad to be able to pass … Continue reading
Retrovesting
Retrovesting: Had it not been reported by Rafat Ali, I may have missed this press release regarding a $10 million funding round raised by Business.com. Quote: Business.com, the search engine designed and organized exclusively for business, today announced the closure … Continue reading
How magazines get started (continued)
How magazines get started (continued): One of the seven readers of this weblog, Sean Callahan, has an article at btobonline.com about publishers launching technology magazines like Redux Herring and the Deal‘s Tech Confidential. (Explanation: How magazines get started.)
This is a test
This is a test: I took the picture at left (with my phone’s camera) of the magazine “Wired Test” at a huge grocery store magazine newsstand in Greenfield, Mass., Saturday afternoon. (While I live in Nashville, I spend a lot … Continue reading
Dejacon III
Dejacon III: I did not attend Bloggercon III, but Stowe Boyd, who I leaned against a wall with during Jeff Jarvis’ over-flow session at Bloggercon II, describes it as I imagined it would be. It’s great to gather with people … Continue reading
He’s right, except when he’s wrong
He’s right, except when he’s wrong: Eric Enberg spends a few thousand words saying what I said the morning after election day in a couple dozen: certain bloggers who probably did everything they could to avoid statistics courses in college … Continue reading
Hey, I’m back
Hey, I’m back: Thanks to the avalanche of e-mail I received from two people wondering why they couldn’t access rexblog.com. It’s back up now (thanks, Steve) and I will post all the little items I’ve collected today. Just imagine that … Continue reading
How magazines get started (continued)
How magazines get started (continued): It’s not often that I get to blog a How magazines get started (continued) article from a hometown newspaper, but today, the Nashville Business Journal profiles the launch of a business-to-business publishing venture, Aviation Insurance … Continue reading