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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: November 2008
The Mother of All List of Lists, 2008 version
Rex Sorgatz (no relation, but to whom, I just remembered, I owe a bottle of wine) has started this year’s edition of his annual list-of-lists. Here’s an interview about his list I did with Rex in 2005 and an update … Continue reading
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Online advertising that works (and it’s not search)
As I’ve noted before, while Apple spends a small percentage (about 10% in 2007 – sub. required) of its advertising budget online (a likely reason being they get more visits to Apple.com than most advertising-supported sites), when they do advertise … Continue reading
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Time out for a little Jung fun
According to a fun little web tool called Typealyzer, this blog (not me, but the blog) belongs to a group called, “The Thinkers.” Quote: “(Thinker blogs) are especialy attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something … Continue reading
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$10 magazine subscription sale at Amazon.com
For those who still enjoy the experience of reading a real magazine, here’s a link to a sale Amazon.com is having through the end of December. A year’s subscription to any of the magazines can be purchased for $10 — … Continue reading
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Why Andrew Sullivan blogs
Quote from a long essay in the November issue of The Atlantic: “The blogosphere may, in fact, be the least veiled of any forum in which a writer dares to express himself. Even the most careful and self-aware blogger will … Continue reading
I find it tragic that the NYT would call the Walmart death a “fitting” beginning to the holiday season
Over the past couple of weeks, the media, including the New York Times, have provided a steady drum-beat of hype, aggressively supporting the notion that because of the economic abyss into which our country has (according to the experts) plunged, … Continue reading
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Saturday snaps
Here is a set of photos I took earlier this week on the Gulf coast. If you are familiar with the area, they were shot near the Alabama-Florida border at Perdido Key, Florida, at Needle Rush Point.
Thanks
I’m thankful that you don’t have to look exactly like this to celebrate Thanksgiving.(See note below.) Happy American Thanksgiving to all of my friends in lands where turkey is not the main course of a calorie-laden meal served sometime later … Continue reading
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Something to worry about after we solve the economic meltdown and global warming
Sometime in about five gigayears (roughly, about five billion years from now), our sun will nova and swallow the earth. We can all just stand around whining about it, or get off our butts and do something. For instance, we … Continue reading
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Why I blog – And it’s not to be on some stinking list
This blog is written by one lone bird. I guess there has been a debate going on somewhere about the death of personal blogs. I’m parked along a beautiful beach for a couple of days and, frankly, I’ve lost track … Continue reading
And another gripe about Google SearchWiki – It’s Not a Wiki
Thank you, Marshall Kirkpatrick. You’ve made another wise observation about what’s wrong with Google SearchWiki: It’s not a wiki! Of course, this isn’t the first time Google’s branding of new products has perplexed me. The most dumbfounding one is still … Continue reading
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Celebrate good times, come on
Counter-intuitive magazine launch of the week Sometimes, I just have to break my practice of not posting items about the launching or closing of specific magazine titles. Like this morning when I came across this press release for a new … Continue reading
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Why do publishing companies seem to be run by people who hate publishing?
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the MBAs (King Henry VI, Act IV, Scene II – slightly revised)* No stamps honor publishers who hate publishing. In Advertising Age, Simon Dumenco asks a very important question, Do Magazine Publishers … Continue reading
Google’s New Coke SearchWiki is user-generated discontent
I’m in total agreement with Michael Arrington: the now-removed Google SearchWiki was an unnecessary “fix” for a problem that didn’t exist. An apparent knock-off of Wikia Search (which I like) with a little Digg thrown in, the feature allowed Google … Continue reading
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If you can make it now, you’ll make it anyhow
My friend Samir Hunsi is pointing to a 2001 New Yorker article by James Surowiecki called, “Let the Bad Times Roll” about BusinessWeek & Fortune magazines being launched in 1929 and 1930 — and other successful ventures that started during … Continue reading
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