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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: January 2007
Hey, I know that blogger
Don’t know how I missed Laura Creekmore’s major pub in today’s Tennessean. Besides moderating the East Nashville listserv and blogging about food, she’s head of Internetology at Hammock. From that photo on Tennessean.com, you can see she’s the one with … Continue reading
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How conferences get started
A little less than two years ago, I suggested that “the reason you’ve heard of podcasting is because no one first “demo’d†it at a conference and no corporate marketers were involved.” I was taking a cheap shot at the … Continue reading
Tagged technology, web 2.0
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I’m not going to insert a snide French-stereotyping comment here
Sure, with a headline like, “French embrace the power nap,” and the lede, “The French already enjoy Europe’s shortest working week. Now they being encouraged to have a nap after lunch,” it’s a challenge to restrain myself from the cliché.
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We’re launching The SmallBusiness.com Blog tomorrow
The SmallBusiness.com Weblog launches tomorrow*, but since this is about all of the announcing we’ll be doing (except adding a link to the front of SmallBusiness.com), I guess it’s launching right now. This is a blog about SmallBusiness.com, not a … Continue reading
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HBS using Wikipedia as a lab rat
Harvard Business School’s Andrew McAfee points to a new HBS case study of Wikipedia that he and Karim Lakhani have completed and have made available free to everyone. One of Andrew’s case discussion points is today’s quote of the day: … Continue reading
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Predicted responses to the announcement that Microsoft is world’s most respected company
It will be interesting to see the reactions to the Harris/WSJ rankings of the world’s best and worst corporate reputations [free feature]. Quote: “Top-ranked Microsoft managed to beat Johnson & Johnson, whose emotionally appealing baby-products business had kept it in … Continue reading
Tagged web culture
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links for 2007-01-31
Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software | New York Times It took me a couple of days to get around to reading this, but it explains to me why I wish I was a programmer sometimes. (tags: technology) Paul … Continue reading
Ft. Worth reporter desperate for by-line
Hammock editor Hudge and I had to look twice at this Ft. Worth Star-Telegram story he picked up from Dave Barry’s blog. The headline, “4 towels, ashtray taken from Motel 6,” and the infographic map suggest to me a disgruntled … Continue reading
The importance of randomness
Here are two random items that have drifted by my computer monitor during the past 24 hours. Random item 1. I imagine Kathy Sierra there in her cool converted airstream office writing book after book. Fortunate for us, every once … Continue reading
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links for 2007-01-30
Amapedia, Amazon.com’s product wiki grows up Quote: It makes it easy for you to tag products with what they are and with their most important facts, and for others to search, discover, filter, and compare products by those tags. Must … Continue reading
Less is more, continued
Brad Burnham doesn’t blog nearly as much as his partner Fred Wilson, but when he does, it’s worth taking note. Quote: One way to look at that question is to argue that we have arrived at the end of history. … Continue reading
Tagged technology
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Josh Hallett is trying to stir up things
Josh Hallett points to a post by The Diva who wonders if Atlanta is becoming the “social media” mecca of the South. Josh is right. I’ll provide some push-back on that notion. Heck, everyone knows that Mothership BBQ is the … Continue reading
Why the record labels should have listened to Esther Dyson in 1995
Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson’s post on his Long Tail blog confirms what people at record labels (including those in Nashville where I live) already know: there’s got to be a better way to make money than by selling recorded … Continue reading
links for 2007-01-29
midomi Search for music by singing or humming part of a song. All you need is a microphone. (tags: music cool)
Attention Nashville bloggers
I’m helping Nick Bradbury spread the word a Max It Out, a Nashville charity event on February 3rd inspired by five-year-old Max Royka. Max contracted bacterial meningitis when he was six weeks old, and every year his parents hold this … Continue reading
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