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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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links for 2008-02-28
YouTube Hunting for Magazine Partners| FolioMag.com Quote – Publishers control the ad inventory….Partners, he said, get “over 50 percent†of the ad revenue generated through YouTube. (tags: advertising magazines youtube video) Stock Photo Agencies | A Photo Editor (Rob Haggart) … Continue reading
I hope Google Sites will help people “get” wikis
BusinessWeek’s Rob Hof is reporting that Google is launching a new “app” tonight called Google Sites. As I write this, it is not yet live, however, according to Rob, it uses the “Jotspot” wiki platform Google acquired in late 2006. … Continue reading
links for 2008-02-27
Esquire shows how a magazine should love letters | Designing Magazines Quote – Esquire certainly wouldn’t be the first magazine to “enhance†its letters page, but I’d like to believe that it’s possible to take the best of a magazine’s … Continue reading
Can someone from the UK translate this into American for me?
Warning: This post rambles on a bit about custom publishing before finally getting to the point of asking someone from the UK (Martin Stabe, are you out there?) to translate some English into American for me. But first, the rambling … Continue reading
Posted in Custom Media, custom publishing
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links for 2008-02-26
Depressing magazine news | FolioMag.com I typically don’t point to the news about the launches or closures of magazines (lots of others track those), but this one is particularly sad: No Depression is shutting down. (tags: music magazines) Newsweek and … Continue reading
TheOnion.com discovers new Tennessee weather phenomenon: Basement tornadoes
From those funny folks at The Onion: “Tennessee Helpless Against New Basement Tornadoes“: “Officials from the National Weather Service issued a severe weather alert for all basements in Tennessee Tuesday after a deadly new weather phenomenon ravaged scores of residential … Continue reading
Free Advice: Read this article by Chris Anderson to be ahead of the buzz curve
If you want to be out in front of the next Chris Anderson book every marketing consultant — and worse, your boss — will be quoting in a few months, go ahead and read this Wired magazine article from the … Continue reading
Posted in books, business, magazines, marketing
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Why all Conde Nast magazine articles should be free online
I could have just added this link to my link blog, however, it needs just a little bit more of a shout-out. So, here’s a quote from a post titled Why All Consumer Magazines Should be Free Online by Felix … Continue reading
Rexblog – The love connection
Posted on February 23, 2008 Over the years, I’ve heard lots of stories about couples meeting online. And I know that an online industry has grown up around helping people connect with others who are of the same mind — … Continue reading
A sampling of really annoying supporter-created campaign songs
Recently, I wrote about the lost art of campaign jingles. (Actually, the “jingle” is a lost art.) On this morning’s Weekend Edition, Scott Simon interviewed Jim Nayder of “The Annoying Music Show” about some really, really bad presidential campaign songs. … Continue reading
Southern Living removes the staples. Remember New Coke?
(If you’re not an over-the-top magazine geek, you may want to go ahead a skip this post. I am such a geek, and this post proves it.) In what is perhaps the most significant change in the print-production approach of … Continue reading
links for 2008-02-22
Flickr No-Follows (Some) Outbound Links | Small Business SEM Shows how clueless I am — I assumed Flickr comment links always had no-follow tags. According to this post, the no-follow rule does not apply to links in ones profile. (tags: … Continue reading
DRM-free audiobooks sound smart to me
Cory Doctorow is reporting that Bertelsmann’s “Random House Audio has announced that it will now allow its audiobooks to be sold without DRM by all of its online retailers.” Already, it sells DRM-free audiobooks through emusic.com. From that experience, Random … Continue reading
links for 2008-02-21
NPR’s ATC does GTD | All Things Considered You may want to put this in your read and review file. (tags: gtd)
Isn’t this what public financing should be?
Photo by: Tracy Olson This is not a political post.* It’s an observation of an ironic application of the term “public financing” as it is used in this article in the New York Times (my bold for emphasis): Mr. Obama’s … Continue reading
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