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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: February 2009
Tech magazines that have shuttered
Former PC World editor and now online media journopreneur* Harry McCracken is collecting a list of no-longer in-print tech magazines on his site, Technologizer. Here’s his current list. If you can think of some more, send them to him: A+, … Continue reading
Albert Haynesworth and the future decline of the Washington Redskins
Bye-bye Albert The first NFL team I ever truly became a fan of was the Washington Redskins (sorry). During the three years I lived in D.C., the Redskins went to the Superbowl twice, winning one of them. You know the … Continue reading
Welcome back, Mr. President
President Obama tonight reminded us that ‘yes we can’ overcome a bad economy. I was at a business dinner tonight and so I missed the Presidential speech. However, according to the analysis, I can stop my whining about President Obama’s … Continue reading
The Hope Train is about to pull out of the station
My post yesterday (and previous posts suggesting there’s a remote, outside, long-shot, possibility that we’re *not* headlong into an economic Apocalypse) riled* a few people who believe the role of the President should be to scare the hell out of … Continue reading
I thought we elected the “Hope” Obama, not the Jimmy Carter one
I feel this is the first time I’ve ever written the following four words on this blog: Bill Clinton is right. From ABC.com last Friday : "Bill Clinton says Obama needs to sound more hopeful: Former president Bill Clinton tells … Continue reading
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The Oxford American survives yet again
For as long as this blog has been around (almost a decade), I’ve written about my desire to see the non-profit southern literary magazine, Oxford American survive somehow, someway. Their troubles have nothing to do with the Internet or a … Continue reading
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We don’t need to bail out private jet-flying, yacht-owning VCs
VC to the social media stars, Fred Wilson responds brilliantly to a New York Times column by Tom Friedman in which Friedman suggests the best way to create jobs grow the economy while saving the environment is to let the … Continue reading
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Samir Husni on how narrow a magazine niche can be sliced
Last Thursday, I was at the University of Mississippi to speak with a class of students in the school’s magazine program. As typical when I’m there or anywhere with the university’s journalism department chair, Samir Husni, the topic turns to … Continue reading
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From the page-view churning file: It’s not a slide show, it’s a list
Online advertising purchased by the per-thousand “page-view” is, in my opinion (and many others), an anachronistic notion.* Yet it is still the way most non-search online advertising (“display”) is sold. So, as long as “page views” are the way online … Continue reading
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Dear Mark Perry at Nissan, I’d love to buy one of your new cars
The Chattanooga Times Free Press is reporting that Mark Perry, director of product planning and strategy for Nissan North America, said Monday that Tennessee will be one of the first locations where the company will sell its new all-electric car … Continue reading
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How to survive the recession: turn off CNBC
One reason rational people should not watch CNBC (it’s non-stop anxiety-inducing blather about cause-and-effects that don’t exist) is explained in an article by David Carr in today’s New York Times. Quote: “The whole tidy ecosystem of cause and effect — … Continue reading
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This may be the hippest recession ever
The other day on Twitter, I said I became convinced the recession is bottoming out when I saw that some CondeNast alumni had launched a blog called “Recession Wire.” It’s not the blog itself that convinced me, it’s the tag-line … Continue reading
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I’d pay the NYTimes.com for a free version — free of advertising, that is
I’d pay for a subscription to an online version of the New York Times if every page looked like this “article skimmer” prototype. And I mean every page: that clean and minimalist. Sans advertising. (Blog post about the prototype.) Send … Continue reading
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Professor Rex’s lesson plan
Today, I’m on the campus of Ole Miss with my friend and fellow magazine wonk, Samir Husni, Mr. Magazine. I enjoy coming to Oxford, Miss., to be with Professor Husni, who, like me, strongly believes there’s an important role in … Continue reading
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Probably not the last word on whether micropayments can says newspapers
The other day, when I wrote a blog post reacting to Walter Issacson’s Time magazine cover “essay” on how “micropayments” could save newspapers, I included this statement: “This essay sounds like it was written in 1997, not 2009. Geez, the … Continue reading
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