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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 2006
Quote of the (yester)day
Quote of the (yester)day: (I’m catching up) (From “Are CEOs A Tech Gap in Themselves? You Bet”, Businessweek): “Outside the tech/net space itself, CEOs, by and large, do not go online, know little about blogs, and are increasingly divorced and … Continue reading
Bill Gates and one of the most respected technology experts on the planet
Bill Gates and one of the most respected technology experts on the planet: On Paidcontent.org, Rafat Ali is reporting from the “D” conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal. Rafat also posted this photo of Bill Gates and the WSJ’s … Continue reading
Offline today
Offline today: Day-trip morning. Back late this afternoon.
A win for “the rest of us”
A win for “the rest of us”: While offline over the weekend, I missed the news that a California appeals court ruled against Apple in its misguided lawsuit against bloggers. The case will journey through the courts for years, no … Continue reading
Dad blogging
Dad blogging: My daughter’s graduation over the weekend was one of the most amazing events I’ve ever attended. She had the very special privilege of attending an old (hers was the 209th graduating class), prestigious and tradition-honoring New England boarding … Continue reading
Time to get personal
Time to get personal: I’ll be blogging lightly, if at all, for the next few days as I’m involved in some very fun festivities related to that little girl’s graduation from high school. Wait! How could this be happening? This … Continue reading
Web 2.0®
Web 2.0®: I’d like to commend the CMP attorneys for defending their “pending trademark” of the term Web 2.0®. Despite the obvious fact that I’m no a lawyer, here’s my take on it: Tim O’Reilly popularized the term and started … Continue reading
Wikiwhacking
Wikiwhacking: Ross Mayfield: “Wikipedia isn’t dead” (I agree, but don’t understand the headline, however). Dave Winer: “Now if the strongest advocates of Wikipedia would start talking realistically about the weaknesses of the approach in addition to the strengths, the utopian … Continue reading
TV blogging
TV blogging: Except for a few snippets, I skipped this season of American Idol — come to think of it, I skipped all the previous seasons except for the end of last year’s (I’ll admit it: I’m a Carrie Underwood … Continue reading
Classic HITS the van
Classic HITS the van: No doubt, this photo has been around for years, but I just saw it for the first time. It’s a shot of a mini-van owned by a radio station in Newfoundland, HITS 99.1. Unfortunately, when the … Continue reading
Connect the dots
Connect the dots: Jason Fried: “Bloat is a function of time, people and money.“ Ephraim Scwartz: “What would happen if Microsoft and all of its technology disappeared tomorrow?.”
Nicholas Carr on the ‘death’ of Wikipedia
Nicholas Carr* on the ‘death’ of Wikipedia: “Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that “anyone can edit,” was a nice experiment in the “democratization” of publishing, but it didn’t quite work out. Wikipedia is dead. It died the way the pure products of … Continue reading
Happy feet
Happy feet: If you’re a runner (or, like me, a really, really slow jogger) who already owns an iPod nano, the announcement of the Nike+iPod concept is one of those things you look at and say, “My lovemarks are mashing … Continue reading
New Nashville business blog
New Nashville business blog: Dirk Plantinga sure knows how to get a link from me. He says he started blogging after hearing me speak at the Nashville Technology Council (although it was Brittney or Nick who inspired him, no doubt). … Continue reading
Top ten lies of Guy Kawasaki
Top ten lies of Guy Kawasaki: Guy lists ten things not to believe when he says them — answering an obvious question from Dave Winer. He came close to using my suggestion with his “I don’t care about my Technorati … Continue reading