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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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Archives
Daily Archives: Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Google talked up
Google talked up: Well, the rumors were correct, Google Talk is, indeed, an IM tool. But unlike when Google Maps were introduced, there’s not not much there there. Especially if you’re a Mac user. Even if there were something other … Continue reading
Great headline in tomorrow’s NY Times
Great headline in tomorrow’s NY Times: “Relax, Bill Gates; It’s Google’s Turn as the Villain”
Advertisers as “content producers”
Advertisers as “content producers”: AdAge.com profiles two “niche” cable networks that are, “finding marketing bucks in one of advertising’s hottest trends: turning the advertiser into content producer.” The networks profiled are The Sundance Channel and The Independent Film Channel, not … Continue reading
Answer – “Not soon enough”
Answer – “Not soon enough”: Business 2.0′s Greg Lindsay asks, “When Will the Celebrity Weeklies Bubble Burst?
Back in the day
Back in the day: If NashvillePost.com goes away, where will I learn cool things like my friend Jon Lehman is becoming an academic big-wig. Quote: Jon Lehman, co-founder of radiological services company Inphact, has been named head of the health … Continue reading
Nashville Post suspends publishing next week
Nashville Post suspends publishing next week: Subscribers (paid) to NashvillePost.com just received this e-mail announcement: “Publishing on NashvillePost.com will be suspended beginning August 31 as we study plans to rework the website. We are hopeful that our efforts result in … Continue reading
Brittney interviews me
Brittney interviews me: Brittney has posted an interview with me on Nashville is Talking. (I couldn’t refuse lunch as Channel 2 was paying.) In it, she gets me to admit to a long-ago job I purged from my resumé at … Continue reading
Rexblog exclusive – you’ll never guess who’s ‘blogging”
Rexblog exclusive – you’ll never guess who’s ‘blogging’: In perhaps the biggest Nashville blogging-related news I’ve ever stumbled across, I’m happy to share with the world that Pacman Jones is blogging. Or, well, they’re calling it “journaling” on NFLPlayers.com. technorati … Continue reading
Favorite new word – tyro
Favorite new word – tyro: (Nugatory is so last week.) Today, via Dictionary.com’s word of the day, I’ve decided “tyro” is going to replace the word “newbie” in my vocabulary. tyro TY-roh, noun: A beginner in learning; a novice. (From … Continue reading
Magazine publisher is a Martha Apprentice candidate
Magazine publisher is a Martha Apprentice candidate: Sorry, I’m not Apprentice-savvy, so I’m assuming they use just first names of cast-members. However, it’s not a mystery to me who “Dawna” of St. Petersburg is. A rexblog search reveals that Dawna … Continue reading
How many times has Apple heard this before?
How many times has Apple heard this before? Billboard is warning Apple to enjoy its dominance of digital music while it lasts…because its ‘reign’ will last at the most another 12 to 18 months because iPod and iTunes alone cannot … Continue reading
What Matt McAlister said
What Matt McAlister said: My del.icio.us hack mentor* Matt McAlister, formerly of IDG and now of Yahoo, is posting some thought-provoking ideas regarding social media, including this post that uses Netflix as an example to understand social media ROI and … Continue reading
What Jeff said
What Jeff said: “Content is not king. Distribution is not king. Trust is king in the kingdom of conversation.”
