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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.
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Monthly Archives: February 2007
A Wikipedia oops? Or, a New Yorker oops?
Stephen Dubner points to the post-script editor’s note on this New Yorker magazine article (scroll to bottom) in which a Wikipedia administrator that was identified in the article as “a tenured professor of religion at a private university” with “a … Continue reading
Powerbook narcolepsy
I just discovered a new term. It’s a term I would have preferred not to discover. The term is “Powerbook narcolepsy” and it refers to Mac PowerBooks that randomly shut down. (It’s similar to “MacBook narcolepsy,” another term I’ve just … Continue reading
Who’s winning the race on a local “breaking news” story
My news-reader and e-mail radar just lit up with news about the divorce of Vanderbilt’s chancellor Gordon Gee and his wife, Constance. Just for the record, the student-run InsideVandy.com, broke the story at 10:06 a.m. and (the following link may … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville
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When old media use terms like ‘digital initiative’ they reveal how really old they are
Yesterday, the Magazine Publishers of America reported that during 2006, their members (consumer magazine publishing companies) had announced over 150 digital initiatives. These “digital initiatives” include the launching of “online social networks, enabling user-generated content, and (introducing) more blogs, mobile … Continue reading
Posted in conversational media, magazines, publishing
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links for 2007-02-28
Publication costs will rise due to new postal rates – 02/27/2007 Magazines delivered via mail are facing higher costs and potentially thinner margins as a result of new postal rate increases, but the hike is not nearly as bad as … Continue reading
Al Gore’s carbon footprint
BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nussbaum is picking up the meme regarding Al Gore’s carbon usage at his home in the “posh” Belle Meade area of Nashville. As I live in Al’s ‘hood, I’d like to clarify one thing about his carbon use. … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville
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More camera coveting
Last week, I was coveting that new high-end camera from Canon so much, I completely missed the news about a PowerShot camera (the type I carry with me all the time) coming out next month that is “camcorder-like” for around … Continue reading
Posted in photography
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Business card typo rumor of the day
Here’s one for the crack team at Snopes.com. Surely it’s a prank. The Fortune magazine tech blog (did you know there was such?), The Browser, says that Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO of Google, has a … Continue reading
Tagged web culture
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The world’s youngest profession: Friendstitution
I just Googled the words and discovered there is no such thing as a “friendsitute” and no such occupation as “friendstitution.” However, I think the world’s youngest profession should be called those as the New York Times has a story … Continue reading
Checking in on the juggernaut that is Google
As I have been saying for a while, the business model of Google (or at least a significant chunk of it) is that of an advertising sales representation company. A sales agent, if you will. Sure, Google is a media … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, google
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Cult of Mac once more displays obsessive-compulsive behavior
Whenever I read that some research company has conducted a survey of 379 random individuals and has discovered that consumers won’t pay $500 for a new Apple gizmo, it makes me wonder what rock these research people live under. These … Continue reading
A Web 1.0 classic redesigned – IMDB.com
And the Oscar for best redesign of a website I thought would never be redesigned goes to Internet Movie Data Base. You may not notice the redesign on the front of the site, but the new look and structure is … Continue reading
links for 2007-02-25
South by Southwest torrent of 739 mp3s | SXSW.com Don’t try this unless you’ve go plenty of bandwidth to spare. It took me a few nights of trying. (tags: music bittorrent)
