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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.
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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Who’s to blame?
If I were in a sinking rowboat out in the middle of an ocean and the only way to save the boat was to throw an ideologue overboard, I would not hesitate to do so. Anyone who is now telling … Continue reading
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U.S. House to Nation: Drop Dead
While traveling home from Maine to Nashville late on Monday, I started and stopped several drafts of rants regarding the Profiles in Cowardice displayed by many members of the House of Representatives yesterday. Never has a headline captured the moment … Continue reading
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Random ideas regarding the ‘economic stabilization’ plan
Who knew? It is really dark before the dawn. With the bailout/rescue plan “sealed”, this is what I think I know: 1. Everyone blames someone else for allowing the situation to get to this point.2. Everyone regrets that we’re in … Continue reading
Posted in breaking news, observation
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Hurricane update
I’ve received a few e-mails and direct messages from people who know I’m in Maine, accompanying the 18 year old on a college visit. I thought I’d answer with this map. Yes, there’s a hurricane heading to Maine. No, I’m … Continue reading
How to sell a bailout, final thoughts
I’ve written a few posts the past few days regarding the semantics and rhetoric swirling around the credit crisis plan. I’ve noted how the branding and specifying could have been improved. My attempts were child’s play, however, when compared to … Continue reading
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What the President should have said: Blame me
Yesterday, I wrote about the way in which the “brand” that was applied nearly immediately to the plan for the government to provide liquidity to the nation’s credit markets doomed it: Who in their right mind can support a “bailout” … Continue reading
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The President addresses the nation on the banking crisis
Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation via radio regarding the country’s banking crisis in what is now called “The First Fireside Chat.” March 12, 1933. My friends: I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the … Continue reading
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Did we call it a bailout when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?*
I don’t know much about global finance, but I know something about branding. So I know this: When you lose control of a message so much that within moments of its introduction, everyone is calling your idea a $700 billion … Continue reading
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Life goes on
I don’t typically blog about the launching and closing of magazines or magazine-related online ventures. However, when it involves a once grand, but now abused, magazine brand, I make exceptions. So, here’s a brief timeline of this topic on RexBlog: … Continue reading
Posted in magazines, photography
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Some of us are wired to think the world is going to hell in a handcart. And some of us are not
[Update: See note at bottom.] First, I love you all. I love you Obama supporters and you McCain supporters. I love you Macs and I love you PCs. I love you economists who think the credit crisis "rescue plan/bailout" is … Continue reading
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‘Peer-to-peer’ jet taxi service DayJet ceases operations
I’ve blogged about the “on demand” jet service, DayJet, several times. The “world’s first ‘per-seat, on-demand’ jet service” was a great concept but, unfortunately, the thinking behind it was too far outside the box for it to work at this … Continue reading
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Dell joins Facebook to friend small businesses
Today, Dell’s Small & Media Business (SMB) online marketing group launched a Facebook “community and guide” (translation: page) designed to help educate small business owners on “how to harness the power of social media to reach and serve their customers.” … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, small business, social media, social networks
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Using Twitter to share knowledge
Due partially to some Ike-related distribution glitches, but primarily to some panic buying on the part of locals, there is a gasoline shortage in Middle Tennessee. Many stations have plastic bags over pump hoses and those with supplies have lines … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville, twitter
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Here’s to the crazy Microsoft ads
Finally, Microsoft responds to the cute, but often mean-spirited Apple ads that imply anyone using a PC is a dork — not a geek, but a dork. The ad embedded below is one of three executions of the new ads … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, apple
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What will be the next bubble?
Finally, I have read something about the whole credit crisis, Wall Street meltdown, et al, that makes sense to me: This op-ed piece by Thomas Friedman . Quote: Lets understand what happened here. Wall Street — the financial industry — … Continue reading
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