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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: November 2006
Amazon’s Unspun lets you Diggify any stuff you can think of
While not fully sure what Amazon’s new Web 2.0 compliant (just check out that font with rounded letters, the ‘beta’ designation and the use of Ruby on Rails) “UnSpun” is or exactly how it works , I signed up on … Continue reading
The Onion uncovers Titans vs. Giants post-game incident
From The Onion: “Giants Inform Titans They Can Hear Post-Game Comments From Other Room.” Quote from Tiki Barber upon hearing someone in the Titans locker room calling Eli Manning, “A choke artist”: “Is this what you guys are about? Kicking … Continue reading
links for 2006-11-30
MS to single-sponsor ESPN’s ‘SportsCenter’ | MediaPost As I’ve blogged before, this is a retro, not new, strategy. I like it, though. Like the way the Masters is broadcast: fewer ads, fewer sponsors, higher price, more impact.. Signal-to-noise principles work. … Continue reading
New Hammock Publishing logo
Hammock Publishing needed a new logo. Actually, we’ve never had a logo, merely a type treatment — and an unfortunate swirl phase we went through. I especially liked the one we chose as it includes some fun with type: The … Continue reading
2,200 year-old ‘computer’ surprises scientists
From the New York Times comes a story that the 2,200 year-old “Antikythera Mechanism,” sometimes called the world’s first computer, “has now been examined with the latest in high-resolution imaging systems and three-dimensional X-ray tomography.” What did the scientists discover … Continue reading
Frist not running for President: Here is my suggestion for what he should do
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will not be running for President in 2008. Frist has a blog. He announced it there. No one is asking me, but as an observer, I see a great opportunity here. As a Nashvillian and … Continue reading
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Winding down the 2006 tour
Looking back, I’ve had the great opportunity to speak at several conferences, classes and meetings this year and am looking forward to my two last official “gigs” next week. (Although I have some business travel planned before year’s end.) On … Continue reading
Question: Why did Google Answers fail?
According to the Official Google Blog, Google is pulling the plug on Google Answers. It will stop accepting questions later this week and stop accepting new answers by year’s end. The archive of questions and answers will remain. Why did … Continue reading
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links for 2006-11-29
5 Apple Products We Never Saw | Apple Gazette Next time you hear a rumor about a new Apple product, click back to this page. (tags: apple mac) More is Less Just looking at this makes me queasy: A screen … Continue reading
Breaking the Nashville web-lingo
Yet another scary “Parents Guide to Net Lingo” in the local newspaper led to the The Dry Spot’s “Nashville Bloggers Guide to Cyberspeak”. My favorite, of course, is: WRDYM for “Which Rex do you mean?” Bonus link: A TV news … Continue reading
If you’re not number 1 or 2 in your market, then, well, so what?
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard the following fact: Most magazine categories only have room for two titles. However, I know of small publishers who have the #3 title in a market but who still are quite … Continue reading
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Dave Winer on how the Web 2.0 bubble can burst
I’ve blogged for a long time that “busts” and “bubbles” relate to expectations in financial markets, and therefore, if there are few Web 2.0 companies in public markets, then it’s hard to make an argument that a classic bust can … Continue reading
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A look back at 2006 predictions (and congratulations to Chris Anderson)
Chris Anderson’s book, The Long Tail, has been named #1 business book of 2006 by Amazon.com editors. That means I can point to the 2005 year-end prediction I made over at Folio: magazine’s website: Rex Hammock’s predictions: 1. Wired magazine … Continue reading
We have a winner of the $62.50 comment contest
I almost forgot that I had a contest going in which I was going to award $62.50 for a randomly selected commenter on a post for which I am supposed to receive $125 from some folks who are being paid … Continue reading
