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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.
RexBlog.com was created in August, 2000.
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
New media lesson of the day: A picture is worth 5,000 calories
Sometimes, when I see something like This is Why You’re Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks (warning: not safe for the queazy), I think about how hard it would be to get such an elegantly simple, yet deep-fat fried idea … Continue reading
Books, eBooks and Statistics: A few numbers related to books
Jeff Bezos officially unveiled the second generation of the Kindle yesterday. Here’s the press release and engaget has a hands-on video. (I would write more but I’ve outsourced any blogging on the topic of eBook readers to Aaron Pressman. Background: … Continue reading
Posted in kindle, publishing
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Drive-by thoughts on Twitter, Grammys and Alison Krauss
(Credit: Josh Penland via Flickr & Creative Commons.) 1. Twitter and real-time events: I’ve blogged before how Twitter can transform any real-time TV broadcast into a “community event.” I’ve seen this on broadcasts of major sporting events, political debates or, … Continue reading
Posted in conversational media, facebook, friendfeed, media, social media, social networks
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HyperLincs: Celebrating Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday online
[CC / rexblog.com] While Presidents Day (the third Monday in February) is the official day for celebrating the birthdays of both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, this year is definitely a Lincoln year. Not only did the inauguration of President … Continue reading
An observation on why following shiny new objects sometimes sucks
Here’s the deal when you’re obsessed with shiny new objects. You obsess over them when they first come out. You kick the wheels, tear them apart and put them back together and get into long discussions with others who are … Continue reading
Walter Issacson’s modest proposal to save newspapers: Oh, the Irony
I just noticed that the Time.com essay I blogged about yesterday in the post, “Stop blaming me for killing your newspaper,” is the cover story for the current print edition of the magazine. But that cover sub-head perplexed me. Maybe … Continue reading
Posted in magazines
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File this lesson away for the next recession
The more one reads about the history of recessions and market collapses, the more one realizes why certain contrarian investors and marketers look forward to those times when others are capitulating, laying off, hunkering down and wallowing in bad news … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, apple, business, marketing
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Stop blaming me for killing your newspaper
Apparently, there are a lot of newspaper and magazine websites practicing something they blame bloggers of doing – “echo-chamber” posting – the notion that newspapers can be saved if readers weren’t free-loaders who wanted to read articles without paying anything … Continue reading
Posted in media, observation
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Easy question – Who will be the social media marketing agencies of record?
Joe Marchese raises an interesting question over on MediaPost.com about what types of firms will become social media marketing “agencies of record”? I think the answer is easy and obvious: They will be firms specializing in online conversation, community and … Continue reading
Posted in conversational media, social media
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Magazine (Wholesaler) Death Watch
I know I was all ‘keep your sunnyside up’ in that magazine-related post last night, but there’s some breaking news being reported by Foliomag.com that will be music to “The End is Near” crowd. While I know only a little … Continue reading
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Yet again, the NYTimes.com displays how Tufte it is
For those who work in media or marketing who “don’t get Twitter,” let this interactive chart created by the NYTimes.com tracking the “conversations” taking place during the Superbowl be an inspiration for you to begin a journey of trying to … Continue reading
This is not the end of magazines, it’s not even the beginning of the end. (But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning)
I promise, in a few paragraphs I’ll get around to explaining that photo at the left. But first, let me say, if I wanted to, I could let this blog write itself by filling it with daily links to the … Continue reading
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What would Jefferson do?
The University of Virginia, an endowed institution founded by Thomas Jefferson. The other day, an op-ed piece ran in the New York Times suggesting that newspapers are so important, they should become “nonprofit, endowed institutions — like colleges and universities … Continue reading
Posted in media, observation
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