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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.
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Monthly Archives: February 2005
How will magazines survive the Interent, Part II?
How will magazines survive the Internet, Part II? Better question, why do publishers of online “publications” (translation: websites), feel the need to publish a “print” publication? I have an answer but you can make up you own. (Note: For those … Continue reading
Who put the deja in dejazine
Who put the deja in dejazine? Hunker down. You only have to wait until May 24 before the vaporzine that started the whole vaporzine thing (and the certain first inductee into the Vaporzine Hall of Fame) will have another of … Continue reading
How will magazines survive the Internet?
How will magazines survive the Internet? I guess I should point to this transcript of a panel discussion on the topic. However, I’m in the midst of an interview on the same topic and so I’ve had the weekend to … Continue reading
Ironic point by a Google employee
Ironic point by a Google employee: I don’t know which is more ironic. A Google employee using a Microsoft’s employee’s weblog to make the point about Autolink…or the Google employee’s point: “…if you don’t like what the toolbar does…do not … Continue reading
How magazines get started by big publishing companies
How magazines get started by big publishing companies: When I read this item in the NY Times about Cookie, a vaporzine that Fairchild will launch in November, I thought to myself, gee, that sounds familiar. And then I remembered, it … Continue reading
Just do it
Just do it: I think the affirmative posts I’ve given it over the past several months display that I’m very supportive of an advertising campaign that promotes magazines. But please, people, stop announcing it. This reminds me of my pet … Continue reading
Back later today
Back later today: I’m not around the rexblog until much later in the day, however, if I were I’d probably be pointing to this post by Steve Rubel and agreeing and to this post by Robert Cox and recalling some … Continue reading
Odeo, the tools, and Odeo, the premise
Odeo, the tools, and Odeo, the premise: I’d like to clarify that my earlier comments on Odeo were in response to a specific aspect of Ev’s post and John Markoff’s article: That the “premise” of Odeo is based on the … Continue reading
Lots of views on the future of podcasting
Lots of views on the future of podcasting: Thanks to Todd Storch for alerting me to his recent feature on the future of podcasting. He also mentions this panel on the future of podcasting at sxsw. Haven’t mentioned it on … Continue reading
Markoff as history arbiter, not reporter
Markoff as history arbiter, not reporter: Dave Winer captures in this post what I guess I was trying to say yesterday before I descended into a confusing rant. Come to think of it, I’ve been trying to say it since … Continue reading
Why I love that new AP RSS service
Why I love that new AP RSS service: Because I get to be one of the first people to read stories with headlines like, “Kraft Halts Production of Roadkill Candy”
Frist blogs, but who would know?
Frist blogs, but who would know? Patrick Ruffini has posted a great guide to congressional blogging and following up on his (and my) comments about how Bill Frist should blog, Patrick observes that the Senate majority leader (and my senator) … Continue reading
Some more Odeo ranting
Some more Odeo ranting: I’ve updated my earlier post about my instant “negative cognition” to Odeo. I was trying to mellow out, but I just got more wound-up. Then I reflected on why it was bugging me so.
Some blogger’s dream job
Some blogger’s dream job: Get $100,000 for watching a year of Dukes of Hazard and maintaining the official weblog. This is definitely a job for a Nashville blogger. I’d like to encourage Morgan to apply (although I somehow doubt he’s … Continue reading
If you want to see the future of podcasting, look here
If you want to see the future of podcasting, look here: Okay, I’m tired of ranting so I’ll point to something that makes sense to me about podcasting. Here’s a simple hack by some very creative guys who have come … Continue reading