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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: May 2005
Don’t use headlines to create alternative universes
Don’t use headlines to create alternative universes: For all I know, this article found at the Columbia Journalism Review’s website could be objective and fact-filled. However, I couldn’t get beyond the headline, “How evangelical Christians are creating an alternative universe … Continue reading
Blogging is her “tuning fork”
Blogging is her “tuning fork”: On her blog, Management Craft, Lisa Haneberg says, “Blogging is my tuning fork…Blogging and reading blogs keep my mind sharp and give me ideas that are more likely to work.” I really like that and … Continue reading
A magazine editor responds to a negative NYT story — with the magazine’s blog
A magazine editor responds to a negative NYT story — using the magazine’s blog: Please , excuse me. My blog worlds are colliding. Yesterday, I blogged and pointed to this piece in the NY Times by David Carr that said, … Continue reading
This achy breaky sucks
This achy breaky sucks: Presenting the summer, 2005, Billy Ray Cyrus memorial novelty music fad: Cowboy Troy and hick hop. Wake me up when this nightmare is over. As for me (and this may surprise anyone who hasn’t seen my … Continue reading
Deep Throat
Deep Throat: “W. Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has identified himself as the “Deep Throat” source quoted by The Washington Post to break the Watergate scandal that led to President … Continue reading
More on how money goes poof
More on how money goes poof: The cautionary tale of Daniel Webster’s* Brewster’s $560 million spending spree with other people’s deutschmarks to purchase Inc. & Fast Company. *Update: Thanks, Staci (see comments), for that correction of my humorous mind-slip.
Just because my son will be wearing on of those T-Shirts
Just because my son will be wearing one of those T-Shirts: On Saturday morning, I’m dropping off a friend’s son at a local high school so he can take an SAT II exam. Because the test is across the street … Continue reading
Kurt Andersen knows he should be flattered…
Kurt Andersen knows he should be flattered…That Radar is a knock-off of Spy, the magazine he co-founded. But he’s not. (via: the other rex)
Kurtz does Jarvis
Kurtz does Jarvis: Okay, so maybe no one reads the newspaper on a holiday, but the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz did a swell profile of Blog Boy today. Quote: Jarvis, who seems to attend every conference on new media held … Continue reading
Business models we don’t get
Business models we don’t get: Ever wonder how those people who sell books for a penny on Amazon.com make money? Volume, according to the WSJ’s Startup Journal.
Bad Business for Magazines About Business
Bad Business for Magazines About Business: David Carr’s byline is back on a magazine-industry story in the business section of today’s NY Times. A long story. A story worth reading. A must-read story if you’re in the general business magazine … Continue reading
Longtail of NCAA sports
Longtail of NCAA sports: The NCAA men’s lacrosse championship game between Duke and Johns Hopkins is being played right now before a near Eagles-size crowd (well, perhaps not the upper decks, but a big crowd in the part of the … Continue reading
Ironic conventional wisdom developing about Freakanomics’ success
Ironic conventional wisdom developing about Freakonomics’ success: I’m one of those bloggers who received a review copy of Freakanomics (but for a reason other than my blogging) and blogged it early and positively. But actually reading the book causes me … Continue reading
Just some more Nashville news
Just some more Nashville news: A mother faces criminal charges after she hired a stripper to dance at her 16-year-old son’s birthday party. The drug store where she took the photos to be developed turned her into authorities. “”Who are … Continue reading