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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: December 2007
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RIAA not suing over CD ripping but still kinda being jerks | Engadget Quote – It turns out that (Jeffery Howell, who’s being sued by the RIAA) isn’t actually being sued for ripping CDs, like the Washington Post and several … Continue reading
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Last.fm FlickrFan concert photos | Joe Lazarus A personalized feed that searches Flickr for highly relevant concert photos based on the music interests for a Last.fm user name. (via: Taylor McKnight) (tags: flickrfan lastfm flickr)
Dave’s cool new thing
I apologize for the jumpiness of this video I grabbed to demo how my screensaver uses a stream of photos from my Flickr-contacts’ photos generated by Dave’s software, that can found at at FlickrFan.org. Dave Winer often describes himself online … Continue reading
Chris Anderson: Are dead-tree magazines good or bad for the climate?
I’m very glad it’s Chris Anderson who wrote this post today. As it’s from Chris, the author of the Long Tail and executive editor of Wired Magazine, perhaps he won’t be written off as some right-wing wacko for putting forth … Continue reading
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Get me re-write: Walt Mossberg says a Windows machine is better than a Mac
Walt Mossberg, the consistently Mac gung-ho columnist at the Wall Street Journal, is going to launch a million rebuttals from MacFanboy Nation with his review of the Dell XPS One that concludes it is “the first Windows all-in-one desktop I’ve … Continue reading
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How to rip a DVD to iTunes/iPod – legally
Via PaidContent.org, comes news (I guess it’s “news” that the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal are reporting what every Apple rumor site has been saying for weeks) that Apple will announce a rental option for some video purchased via … Continue reading
A Future Tense story from the past
As my online time has been sparse the past few days, I’m only now realizing that Jon Gordon’s Public radio show Future Tense posted the story about about Apple and Think Secret that includes some Rex sound bites. Thanks to … Continue reading
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Christmas at the Geeks
I have only an inkling of an idea what the friendly folks at National Instruments sell, but I’m thinking my 17-year-old son may one day want to go work there after viewing this:
links for 2007-12-26
2007: The Year in RSS | ReadWriteWeb I ‘second-that’ this quote from Marshall Kirkpatrick – I love RSS and hope that next year will be an even bigger year for this world-changing medium. (tags: RSS syndication) Titans favored in game … Continue reading
links for 2007-12-25
Trend: Consumer generated magazines | CScout TrendBlog (Familiar to rexblog readers) Quote – The idea behind consumer-generated magazines is to publish some of the growing mass of online content while empowering the consumers themselves. (tags: magazines 8020 jpgmagazine) What does … Continue reading
How not to be ‘that’ blogger – Lesson #1: Don’t be gullible
Merry Christmas Eve, or, as we call it on the blogosphere, the second easiest day of the year to get a great spot on Techmeme. Tomorrow is the easiest. Matthew Ingram gets the whole ‘slow tech-blogging day’ thing and explains … Continue reading
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A milestone on the road to digital magazines | Roger Black Quote – The Times now ranks as the most visible mainstream pioneer in defining new digital narrative forms. …The newspaper has indicated the direction away from the static pages … Continue reading
Geez, Fake Steve is almost funny again
Starting Friday with this post and throughout the day yesterday, the formerly witty website, Fake Steve Jobs, has temporarily got its groove back. The gist of the current comedy-jab is an Apple amnesty program in which the company will pay … Continue reading
links for 2007-12-22
What’s propping up the U.S. economy? | Kiplinger.com Quote – Are two of our favorite villains, oil sheikhs and China, the reason it’s still afloat? (tags: economy) How one company is using wikis and blogs to unclog e-mail boxes | … Continue reading
links for 2007-12-21
107 Magazine Predictions for 2008 | FolioMag.com It includes a few of my wishful thoughts. Overall, the article is a fun list, but it actually contains one nugget of real news. In his prediction, Samir Husni reveals he’s not God. … Continue reading