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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: September 2007
links for 2007-10-01
Selling Ads on Facebook Is a Tempting but Risky Business | Wired.com Quote – While Facebook earned respect for ringing the come-and-get-it dinner bell to developers, that level of benevolence seems incompatible with its $10 billion ambitions. (via PaidContent.org) (tags: … Continue reading
Baseball season begins
I don’t actually follow baseball until the playoffs, so I’m not quite sure how we arrived at the surreal place where the Cubs win their division and the Red Sox win their’s — on the same night. However, such impossible … Continue reading
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The ability to segment Facebook friends is “in the works”
Apparently, there will soon be an upgrade to Facebook that will address one of its more obvious and serious flaws — the whole “tone deafness” to any forms of social networks that seem grown-up. According to the “In the Works” … Continue reading
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links for 2007-09-29
The magazine industry – out of vogue | Economist.com Quote – It’s a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, says Felix Dennis, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money. (via: Martin Stabe) (tags: magazines)
A key to understanding how to replace that which was formerly known as advertising
There’s no date on this piece by Tim Manners at FastCompany.com, however I just ran across it today and especially liked this quote: “…if we’re not helping people live better lives, we are not helping ourselves. If all we are … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, marketing, media
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Team Hammock spellers k-i-c-k a-s-s
I hate to sound braggadocious, but can’t help myself from giving a shout-out congratulations to the Hammock Publishing corporate spelling bee team for annihilating the competition in tonight’s 14th Annual Corporate Spelling Bee, benefiting the Nashville Adult Literacy Council. Fittingly, … Continue reading
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Apple rumor #3 resurfaces
Longtime readers of the rexblog know that I have a list of “All the Apple rumors you’ll ever need.” It comes in handy because I can say, simply, “That’s rumor #3″ when I read a “new” rumor about a “mutil-touch … Continue reading
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The shape of things to come
Chris Silver Smith posted a photo of a set of buildings that when viewed from a satellite, forms the shape of a swastika. It turned out that the buildings were part of a 40-year old Navy barracks complex. To change … Continue reading
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The only way to succeed in magazine publishing
Seth Godin quotes Michael Brooks, the publisher of Concrete Wave magazine. Among the nuggets: “I am not publishing a magazine – I am helping to document and foster change within skateboarding. The magazine is part of a greater movement within … Continue reading
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links for 2007-09-27
Observations of Value of Facebook | Susan Mernit Key quote – There’s a lot to savor, and a lot to be learned, and I am still eager to see what next big thing the FB experience is training us for. … Continue reading
There’s this thing I really hate that some bloggers do
Scott Karp, one of the smartest people I know,
Fake Steve (Baker)
I guess some people will do anything to get press credentials in order to keep from paying to gain access to DEMO. BusinessWeek writer (and blogger) Stephen Baker says he’s getting pings from folks attending DEMO that someone is at … Continue reading
The iTunes Store needs all the competition it can get
While John Gruber’s post on the new Amazon MP3 download service is filled with interesting facts and dead-on observations, his math regarding the profitability of music sold via the iTunes Store is a bit suspect as he dismisses the significant … Continue reading
links for 2007-09-25
Nashville’s Band of Outsiders | New York Times Quote from Ann Patchett – I live in Nashville and I don’t listen to country music. It is not such an uncommon state of affairs. (This piece echos lots of what I’ve … Continue reading
The new $5.95 Trump magazine is for readers who don’t have to ask how much it costs
If you’re counting, I think the Trump magazine that will be announced on Tuesday will be the third (or maybe fourth) magazine with that name attached to it. Like the other Trump magazines, this one will be “a magazine devoted … Continue reading
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