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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: September 2005
Blog lite
Blog lite: Offline until tomorrow. Note to self: If you ever get a chance to return to Annapolis for more than 20 hours, do it. And hope the weather is as beautiful as it is today. Note to joggers visiting … Continue reading
Looping
Looping: When the Christian Science Monitor ran the 2004-version of the hackneyed “product placement goes to print” story, it wasn’t news. Today, when they recycle yet again the 2005-version of the hackneyed “product placement goes to print” story, it still … Continue reading
Travel day
Travel day: Despite my unsuccessful attempts to label all trips “unnecessary” and therefore follow presidential suggestions to cut back on travel, I am once more in the air. Which reminds me, a while back, I made an obscure reference to … Continue reading
Storm porn
Storm porn: (From Mark Glaser’s OJR piece, “Six lessons from online coverage of Hurricane Rita”) “It’s storm porn,” Simon told me. “Quit hyping it, quit standing in the middle of it, and tell people where the shelters are and inform … Continue reading
Here’s something we can all do to support the hurricane relief effort – eat out
Here’s something we can all do to support the hurricane relief effort – eat out: On October 5, 2005, restaurants across the country are joining together in a “Dine for America” day, a national fundraising project to support the American … Continue reading
100 most misspeled, mispelled, and misspelled words
100 most misspeled, mispelled, and misspelled words: Last week, after I bragged about a team from Hammock Publishing winning the Nashville Corporate Spelling Bee, a recently retired blogger pointed out that I misspelled a word in my post. Of course, … Continue reading
Rollyo – Wow!
Rollyo – wow!: Rollyo.com is one of those web applications that is so brilliantly obvious you can’t believe someone hasn’t already done it. It gives you the ability to set up a narrow search parameter of up to 25 websites … Continue reading
Tomorrow is the First Anniversary of the Era of Podcasting
Tomorrow is the First Anniversary of the Era of Podcasting: Podcasting did not actually start one year ago tomorrow*. However, on September 28, 2004, Doc Searls presented an overview of podcasting on his IT Garage weblog in which he included … Continue reading
The life of a professional blogger
The life of a professional blogger: If you were a fulltime, professional blogger like Brittney, you could go hang out at Centennial Park looking for someone with a laptop who has discovered the city’s most amazing free hotspot. And then … Continue reading
What Matt McAlister said
What Matt McAlister said: “It’s no surprise then that people jumped to RSS to control information flow. We are telling the creators of information that we want filters, we want flow control, and we want those controls in our own … Continue reading
Dixie Chicks respond
Dixie Chicks respond: All the proceeds from the sale of I Hope (iTunes link), which is only available via download, will be donated to Habitat For Humanity and the American Federation of Musicians Gulf Coast Relief Fund. Also available at: … Continue reading
The former quarterback controversy update
The former quarterback controversy update: Larry Woody, writing this morning in the Tennessean, has an understatement-for-the-ages from head coach Phil Fulmer about Rick Clausen’s performance in last night’s game: “I may have underestimated him a lot. Obviously.” For those of … Continue reading
A marketing idea
A marketing idea: The Great American Country cable company has announced it is re-locating from Denver to Nashville. As the brand “The Nashville Network” has been abandoned by Viacom, perhaps “GAC” can lay claim to it. If that fails, I … Continue reading
How many pages does Google search? I’m guessing 9,620,000,000
How many pages does Google search? I’m guessing 9,620,000,000: Staci Kramer of PaidContent.org points to this NYT story by John Markoff who reports that Google has removed from its front page the number of pages it searches. Quote: “…the company … Continue reading
Fantasy league
Fantasy league: According to USA Today, the NFL suspension of Travis Henry provides salary cap relief so that the Titans can find a replacement. Ed-deee. Ed-deee. I’m sorry, I was just swept up in the sports cliché of the previous … Continue reading
