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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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Monthly Archives: April 2005
How’d the Country Music Marathon get so big?
How did the Country Music Marathon get so big? This morning, as I’m getting ready for an afternoon flight to south Florida for the spring meeting of the American Business Media, about 18,000 folks are running all over Nashville in … Continue reading
WKRN weblog aggregator launches
WKRN weblog aggregator launches: Channel 2 has launched its weblog-hyperlocal news aggregator. Former waitress blogger Brittney Gilbert is now the News 2 blogger, aggregator, on-air personality. The only thing I find weird about it is the strange name they gave … Continue reading
Staci’s session has already begun
Staci’s & LaShawn’s sessions have already begun: Staci Kramer is leading a session (and a food for thought dinner) next week at BlogNashville and has started up the conversation on her heretofore-soon-to-go-live weblog. She’s inviting the experts (translation: everyone is … Continue reading
Why I blog
Why I blog: Yesterday, a business acquaintance asked me a question that lots of business acquaintances ask me when they discover I’ve been blogging so long. “Do you make any money from it?” (I have blunt business friends.) I explained … Continue reading
I give up — reporters will never get the whole math thing
I give up — reporters will never get the whole math thing: I keep trying to retire from my continuous ranting about how ridiculous it is when a reporter sees one set of numbers (online advertising reaches a gazillion dollars) … Continue reading
Nick Bradbury on RSS & advertising
Nick Bradbury on RSS & advertising: Nick (of FeedDemon fame) blogs why he’s decided that FeedDemon should not strip ads. (Sidenote: Nick is registered for BlogNashville.) A while back, I complained about the type of RSS advertising (not about advertising, … Continue reading
100 8th grade boys
100 8th grade boys: The 14 year-old in my household attends an all-boys school at which one of the great rites of passage of the 8th grade is a 2 1/2 day trip to Atlanta that is designed, as best … Continue reading
Verizon taketh away “free” wi-fi
Verizon taketh away “free” wi-fi: Currently, if you pay for Verizon DSL, you get “free” access to wi-fi beamed from NYC telephone booths. Now that the company is deploying cellular internet around the city, it will be pulling the phone … Continue reading
BlogNashville “Food for Thought” Dinners
BlogNashville “Food for Thought” Dinners: Big news on the BlogNashville front. Dave Winer (Pope Dave I), who created (among many, many other things) the “we’re all insiders” Bloggercon concept on which the Friday night-Saturday portion of BlogNashville is based, will … Continue reading
Jeff Jarvis questions the Google teat
Jeff Jarvis questions the Google teat: Last week I blogged why I think “publishers won’t go after Google” (I said, specifically, “(the publishers) one might expect to view Google as a threat are growing so dependent on this revenue stream … Continue reading
Dave Winer says
Dave Winer says: “(Google) didn’t put anything into RSS before they started to take out.” (Background for my non-RSS-geek friends: Dave authored RSS – which is, strictly for purposes of this explanation, the DVD format of “simple XML-based syndication.” Alternatively … Continue reading
Why is small business purchasing technology?
Why is small business buying technology? I rarely (okay, never) blog about esoteric tax policy or small business issues here (I have other venues to write continuously on those topics), but an article in the NY Times today has me … Continue reading
Direct Marketers discover RSS
Direct Marketers discover RSS: And they think it’s a means to overcome the frustration of incessant e-mail bouncebacks from ISPs. I totally agree. I think all e-mail marketers should stop e-mailing me and, rather, merely offer an RSS feed of … Continue reading
WWJarvisD?
WWJarvisD? (also, lots of links related to Infinity’s KYOU ‘podcasting’ format announcement): I’m just imagining how it must be to be Jeff Jarvis right now. The great Satan, Infinity (okay, I know it was the FCC who Jeff has the … Continue reading
I create unconventional elements for a living
I do unconventional elements for a living: The NYT today has a story about magazines selling event sponsorships and offering special services and brand extensions and custom products as part of advertising packages created for major clients. There’s nothing new … Continue reading
