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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: July 2008
links for 2008-07-31
MPA threatens legal action against Mygazines.com | FolioMag.com Remember the site I linked to a week ago with the comment, “Countdown to Takedown”? (http://www.rexblog.com/2008/07/22/17761) – Well, the countdown has commenced. (tags: magazines) You browse like a girl According to this … Continue reading
Who’s that Cuil guy?
Philipp Lenssen has a post that displays some hilarious image results that are occurring on Cuil.com, the heavily financed new search engine that all those mean bloggers are ganging up on. Philipp’s results are so amusing, I thought I’d do … Continue reading
Earthquake updates, via Twitter
A little less than an hour ago, I received a phone call from my 17-year-old son who is attending a month-long program at the University of Southern California. “There was just an earthquake” he said. “I’m okay,” he said. “It … Continue reading
Posted in breaking news, twitter
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Historic firsts
Pardon me while I place two historic firsts in the record. Early this morning, my wife starts off a conversation with, “I disagree with something you wrote on your blog.” “When did you start doing that?” I respond. “Disagreeing with … Continue reading
Seth Godin to launch a FlockdUp-killer
You don’t need me to tell you that Seth Godin is a brilliant marketer. He sees marketing lessons in all of life’s journey. And because his lessons about marketing are shared with parable-like simplicity, even people like me can understand … Continue reading
Posted in humor, social media
Tagged humor, marketing, Merlin Mann, satire, Seth Godin, social networking, waxy
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Using an ego search to compare Google vs. Cuil
Earlier today, I out-sourced to Danny Sullivan a review of the new search engine, Cuil.com. In a comment on that post, Bob Sacks (BoSacks) observed that he uses an ego search to decide if a search engine is any good. … Continue reading
Great TV advertising
During the past week, I have become a fan of the AMC series Mad Men. It’s well written, directed and acted and captures the zeitgeist (granted in a caricature way) of an era that I find fascinating. (For anyone watching … Continue reading
Secrets to a quick review of a new online service
[Later: I posted this early Monday morning. Now, it's mid-afternoon. After using Cuil a little, I've decided they should shut it down and give any money left over back to the investors. All it has done for me is make … Continue reading
links for 2008-07-28
This is the 2,000th bookmark I’ve added to del.icio.us/rexblog I started using the service on December 31, 2004.Additionally I (and some others) bookmark on the account del.icio.us/smallbusiness, which now has 4,147 items bookmarked. (tags: delicious)
If a reporter’s story appears online, is the reporter really reporting?
There is a tiny percentage of Americans who feel about their Sunday New York Times the way Charlton Heston used to feel about his guns. Those people love nothing more than to spend a Sunday morning sipping coffee and getting … Continue reading
Confessions of a MacBook Touch rumor monger
Alan Kay (who I’ll get back to in a moment) is credited with a great quote: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” I’ll add to what Alan said: The second best way is to keep … Continue reading
links for 2008-07-26
Looking At How Well Knol Pages Rank On Google | Danny Sullivan Danny (my search go-to guru) concludes: “Bottom line is that Knol feels like a trusted domain to Google, and content hosted on trusted domains will do better, in … Continue reading
A trillion here and a trillion there
Google is oogling over its numbers today. Not the numbers related to financial performance, but the numbers that math majors get goose bumps about. Granted, I may be misinterpreting what exactly the Google blog post is reporting, but I think … Continue reading
links for 2008-07-24
F8: Facebook Is The Portal 2.0 | BusinessWeek Quote – The new portal is the company that keeps the data that you use to better interact with sites throughout the Web. [Observation: I think “portal 2.0″ is as wrong a … Continue reading
links for 2008-07-23
Marketers – It doesn’t matter what you say. It matters whether they’re ready to listen | Seth Godin Quote – The tragic mistake of demographics and media planning is that they overlook the single most important issue: is the person … Continue reading
