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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: Thursday, August 11, 2005
Blogging advisory
Blogging advisory: Friday, I will be traveling all day. I won’t be be posting anything here until Saturday.
Thieves stealing? Or, ethically upright?
Thieves stealing? Or, ethically upright? Doc Searls points (depressingly) to this “news” story on a North Carolina ABC affiliate’s website: Is Someone Stealing Your Internet Connection? Someone could be stealing your Internet service right now – – and you would … Continue reading
Switch off
Switch off: He’ll probably get sued for reporting it, but Ryan Katz of Think Secret says Apple has switched its mind on launching a new mega TV ad campaign featuring a new generation of Switchers — this time focusing on … Continue reading
Nugatory
Nugatory: I have found my new favorite word, today’s Dictionary.com Word of the Day: Nugatory. It’s from the Latin word, nugatorus (to trifle): nugatory NOO-guh-tor-ee; NYOO-, adjective: 1. Trifling; insignificant; inconsequential. 2. Having no force; inoperative; ineffectual. I can think … Continue reading
Back when I played hockey at Harvard
Back when I played hockey at Harvard: (Updated to fix broken link) Staci has some “trust but verify” thoughts regarding a USA Today reporter who trusted but didn’t verify. Not even with a couple of Google searches. Staci thinks the … Continue reading
Make it stop
Make it stop: (From an AP story) “Adam (Pacman) Jones, the Tennessee titans’ top draft pick, responded Thursday to the men who accused him of hitting them at a nightclub by suing them on charges of conspiracy, defamation and slander.” … Continue reading
Oh the games podcasters play
Oh the games podcasters play: (From Heather Green of Blogspotting) “After being squeezed out of the Top 100 list of podcasts at iTunes by traditional media shows, indie podcasters have figured out how to exploit a flaw in the technology … Continue reading
Hard to control? Try impossible
Hard to control? Try impossible: Doc Searls points to an article in AdAge with the head and sub-head, “Marketers Wrestle with Hard-to-Control Web Content: Blogs and Chat Rooms Pose Risks Despite Coveted Demographics” It’s unfortunate that the phrase “control the … Continue reading
Commercial music
Commercial music: During the Olympics last August, I blogged how that song on the Touareg commercial (Ariel Ramirez, sung by Richard Buckner) haunted me, but I could still never figure out the plot of the commercial. I also noted the … Continue reading
Two ASAE tidbits — association blogger meetup and day-job shout-out
Two ASAE tidbits — association blogger meetup and day-job shout-out: This is a slightly off-topic post, but I know there are a few folks who read this blog who are coming to Nashville this weekend for the big American Society … Continue reading
Oh great
Oh great: Steve Baker has an example of another sub-human species that has crawled out from under a rock. Blogger-bots that generate spam blogs. Quote: “when you have hundreds or thousands of these spam blogs, and machines are running them, … Continue reading
How blogs are changing magazines
How blogs are changing magazines: I just heard a piece on NPR’s Morning Edition (the audio will be available online at 10 a.m. EDT) regarding the launch of Domino Magazine, a “shopping magazine” about home decorating and furnishing “stuff” from … Continue reading