Daily Archives: Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Hey, I know that blogger

Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 by Rex Hammock

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

Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 by Rex Hammock

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 →

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I’m not going to insert a snide French-stereotyping comment here

Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 by Rex Hammock

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

Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 by Rex Hammock

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

Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 by Rex Hammock

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

Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 by Rex Hammock

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 →

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links for 2007-01-31

Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 by Rex Hammock

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 →

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