Monthly Archives: December 2008

Has media coverage worsened the economy? Of course it has.

Posted on Sunday, December 28, 2008 by Rex Hammock

Required reading: This op-ed piece in today’s Washington Post. In it, author and former NPR correspondent Eric Weiner explores how the recession is bad enough, but a relentless news cycle has made it worse. Send your disagreements to him, not … Continue reading →

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How to use Twitter as a customer-service “conversational” tool

Posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 by Rex Hammock

In 2009, I predict a lot of marketers will finally figure out that Twitter is much, much more than the confusing chaos of an online chat, forum, time-wasting thing they now believe it to be. I’m going to attempt to … Continue reading →

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And God Saw That It Was Good

Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2008 by Rex Hammock

I was in the ninth grade on Christmas Eve, 1968, so I remember it well. It had not been a good year. Martin Luther King was murdered earlier in the year, as was Robert Kennedy. And 16,592 members of the … Continue reading →

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Twitter’s missing link…

Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 by Rex Hammock

…is no longer missing: http://twitter.com/search/users If you’ve ever tried to find a specific person’s Twitter stream, the most daunting challenge was finding where you could actually search for it. Until today, searching Google with the person’s name + Twitter was … Continue reading →

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In 2009, why not learn how to hack your own info-flow

Posted on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 by Rex Hammock

(credit: flickr.com/timkin) I know how obsessed (at Hammock, we call it “passionate“) those trying to keep up with the latest geek news can be. Boy, do I know. But if you’re going be obsessed with tech news, you have no … Continue reading →

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