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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: June 2007
Nashville City Paper launches blogs (good) and an extremely awful thing called the e-paper
The Nashville City Paper has launched four weblogs focusing on pop culture, sports, politics and style That’s all good. Can’t have enough Nashville blogs — and local blog-veteran Bill Hobbs helped out on their launch, so they have a good … Continue reading
links for 2007-06-30
The Future of Magazines | PSFK Quote: “The sensory experience that print affords — the feel of different paper stocks, glossy photos, beautiful layout, design — simply cannot be replicated digitally.” (tags: magazines)
iLine – Green Hills Mall, Nashville, Tennessee
A few iGeeks hanging out at the mall waiting to buy a cell-phone: In the comments, BusyMom says she likes the song. Here’s a link to it on iTunes.
The only thing slower than the AT&T EDGE network is…
After hanging out with about 300 fun folks at the Green Hills Apple Store, I thought I’d head across the street to the AT&T Store in Green Hills where only about 30 people were line — at the time. Mistake. … Continue reading
Twittering away today
I’m un-plugging myself from this blog for the rest of the day, but you can catch me on Twitter as I, well, join the other dorks who couldn’t help themselves.
American Airlines is not my friend
I feel really bad. I cheated on Southwest. I flew to DC earlier this week and the person making the arrangements found a good deal on an American Airline Flight from Nashville to Reagan-National. And so, last evening I found … Continue reading
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Still traveling
Still traveling: I’ll be back in Nashville — and online — late tonight. Until then, anything I may have posted on this blog was probably not that interesting, anyway. One observation however: I think the iPhone coverage has entered the … Continue reading
Travel advisory
Despite my losing battle with a summer cold — what’s with those, anyway — I’ll be traveling to D.C. at dark-thirty on Wednesday and will be there a couple of days. Schedule is pretty jammed, so I don’t know when/if … Continue reading
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Reviewing the reviews: Walty and Davy like it — geez, everyone does
[Synopsis of the following post: The embargo for the "first reviews" of the iPhone dropped tonight. If you boil them all down, here's what they all say: "The cellular broadband it uses is painfully slow, but you'll appreciate having all … Continue reading
Count down to Friday — and now’s the time to find good deals on recent-model, used iPods
Khoi Vinh writes about the limits of his stupidity, which just-about (except for the R.E.M. tickets) sums up my thoughts on when I’ll get an iPhone: “I’m cringing at the idea of queuing up outside the Apple Store to get … Continue reading
links for 2007-06-26
Time Inc. dives into digital magazines. | Advertising Age Quote: “The exploration of those magazine-website hybrids sometimes called digi-mags is taking a big step toward mass reach this week with the introduction of People magazine’s first entry in the field.” … Continue reading
Running for Dori
My Nashville friend, Jim Brown, started a new blog today. He’s been preparing for a half-marathon in Virginia Beach on September 2 and his blog will follow his training journey. His blog will also be following another journey. Last Tuesday, … Continue reading
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Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Danah Boyd has posted an essay on her “ethnographic research” related to Facebook and MySpace. Her synopsis: “What I lay out in this essay is rather disconcerting. Hegemonic American teens (i.e. middle/upper class, college bound teens from upwards mobile or … Continue reading
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I’m trivial, therefore I am
I used to wonder why I was glad to be a human. Then I read the rexblog quote of the day from Dave Winer: “Twitter is all about trivial examples. It’s the stuff of no importance whatsoever that make us … Continue reading
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Rise of the microstock photo services
The New York Times covers the launch today of Corbis-owned SnapVillage, the latest entrant into the “microstock agency” arena. Like the Getty-owned IStockPhoto, the site allows amateur and “semiprofessional” phtographers to submit pictures and (in the case of SnapVillage) set … Continue reading
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