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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: October 2006
Microsoft, Intuit, Google and everyone else battle for small businesses
Small business is a topic I write about elsewhere — as in my day job, so typically I eschew it here. However, as small business technology seems to be getting lots of attention today, I’ll wear my professional small business … Continue reading
A rexblog feature I’m enjoying – mybloglog.com
(Note to those reading this via RSS – you’ll have to click through to my blog for this to make sense.) A week or so ago, I added a little code to the right sidebar of the rexblog that displays … Continue reading
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Happy Hammoween
The dresser-uppers (or is that dressers-upper?) at Hammock Publishing.
Posted in Hammock Publishing
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Wired acqhires Reddit
I didn’t use the “acqhire” word earlier when I blogged the Google purchase of JotSpot as a round or two of VC funding took Jot out of that league. However, when a magazine/web property owned by a multi-billion dollar media … Continue reading
WKRN’s blog strategy doubles web traffic
According to Terry Heaton, “aggregate traffic to (Nashville’s ABC affiliate, WKRN’s) 19 blogs last week exceeded traffic to the station’s primary Website, wkrn.com. This means the station has doubled its reach and created niche “businesses” in the market at the … Continue reading
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Google buys JotSpot
From several sources, comes news of ‘The Google’ acquiring the wiki-creation tool, JotSpot. Here’s what the company’s blog says. Ross Mayfield, the early-entrepreneur in the wiki-tools category (his company, SocialText, focuses on wiki-tools and solutions for enterprises) is my go-to … Continue reading
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Jason who?
Jimmy Wales has a response to Jason Calacanis’ unsolicited suggestion that Wikipedia run ads and contribute the revenue to charity. It includes this jab: “This was at Wikimania this past summer, and I barely even remember him… we were at … Continue reading
Sponsored spew from Google
The Diet Coke/Mentos guys have a new video, this time with 500 liters of Diet Coke and 1,500+ Mentos and what looks like, from the credits, some corporate underwriting/sponsorship/assistance from both of those brands and an exclusive deal from Google … Continue reading
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Welcome back, newsreaders
Because of some technical difficulties that were particularly perplexing to this blog’s hackery team, our RSS feed has not been picked up by FeedBurner for the past week. I think that problem has been solved. The problem probably was caused … Continue reading
The relative pain of pinpricks in the history of Time Inc.
I especially enjoy reading about how giant media companies like Time Inc. are trying to figure out what their digital future is in publications (like the Wall Street Journal today) owned by other giant media companies that could write the … Continue reading
One more time, slowly — why pay-per-post schemes are cancer
Let’s say the people who dreamed up spam set up a .ORG website that sounded very legitimate, something like Ethical Email Marketing Policy Organization, would I trust them to be the arbitrators of what legitimate spam practices are? In much … Continue reading
Microsoft tries another way to compete with Intuit
Over the years, Microsoft has tried many things (including an acquisition attempt that the Justice Department derailed) to compete with Intuit in the small business accounting market. Today, they have announced their next plan, a version of the popular Web … Continue reading
FeedBurner is making a ‘clunking’ sound
My RSS feed from FeedBurner is “clunky,” they say. For some reason, I get a “connect time out” message whenever I try to update the Rexblog RSS feed they host. (Hey, I’m just a user — so I’m sure it’s … Continue reading
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Mocking ethics
I agree with Mike Arrington that the absurd sideshow of disclosure options being offered by the pay-per-post schemers is a mockery of ethics, does not address the issue and further exhibits their lack of understanding of how what they are … Continue reading
Vince Young is podcasting
Actually, Vince Young isn’t really podcasting, but Reebok is using their quickly-becoming-a-superstar endorsee in an online campaign to promote the shoe-company’s “When Did I Know?” campaign. Impressive sidelight: Reebok’s PR firm working on this project must do some major Technorati … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville, titans
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