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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: March 2009
Garden & Gun gets another shot
When a magazine is teetering on the edge and then gets whacked by the recession of a lifetime, one can understand why it may have to close down. But the upscale southern lifestyle magazine, Garden & Gun was flying high, … Continue reading
The concept is not new, but Time’s Mine magazine is a clever custom media project for Lexus
This summer, Time will produce a five issue, ten-week custom — and customizable — magazine for Lexus called “Mine.” The “customize” message embodied in the ability to personalize the content in the magazine echos the “branding message” of the Lexus … Continue reading
Posted in Content Marketing, Custom Media, custom publishing, magazines, marketing
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I suggest bloggers kill the word kill in subject lines
I’ve long complained of the way in which those who write and report about technology companies use the term “kill” and “-killer” to mean something other than what the rest of the world means when it uses the words “kill” … Continue reading
Tagged technology, web culture
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In the spring, there will be growth
As I’ve admitted on this blog before, everything I believe about economic forecasting (and a lot of what I believe about life*), is summed up in the movie, Being There. (I’m also a big fan of Jerzy Kosinski’s brilliant satirical … Continue reading
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Rex news from the world of sports
On February 11, the sports radio and ESPN guy Jim Rome started interviewing guests named Rex everyday on his show. He says he didn’t realize it was a streak until he received a text message on day three. Last week, … Continue reading
Could today be Rumor #3 comes true day?
Early this morning, I was greeted with a Tweet from my friend Steve Ruble who said he doesn’t think Apple will release “a tablet” computer today. I tweeted, that I agreed, however, I thought they’d announce something related to their … Continue reading
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SrexSW: The real reason to attend chaotic mass gatherings
SXSW is like Twitter. Chaotic, confusing and hard to get because everyone explains it by how they use or experience it — and everyone uses and experiences it differently. I’ve come to the “interactive” part of SXSW for five years … Continue reading
Bernanke hops aboard the Hope Train
In an extremely rare media interview with a Federal Reserve Board chairman, Ben Bernanke said the U.S. has averted the risk of plunging into a depression. “I think we’ve gotten past that,” he said. Not quite as poetic as, “The … Continue reading
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SrexSW: The Twitter of SXSW 2009 is Twitter
Now this is hilarious. Daniel Terdiman at CNET wrote that Twitter users attending South by Southwest Interactive are complaining of the overload and noise caused by everyone who is attending the event using the “hastage sxsw” (#swsx) on anything they … Continue reading
SrexSW: Greetings from Austin
For the past five years, I’ve spent a Saturday-Monday in early March here, attending the South by Southwest Festival, or as it is affectionally written on Twitter and tagged on Flickr, SXSW or SxSW. I think the really cool people … Continue reading
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Summers hops on board the Hope Train
This morning, President Obama’s top economics advisor Lawrence Summers delivered a talk at the Brookings Institution during which he fell to one knee and burst out singing, “The sun’ll come up tomorrow; bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there’ll be … Continue reading
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Final thoughts on the whole newspaper thing
According to new research from the Pew Research Center for People and the Press, only 33% of Americans say they will miss reading their daily newspaper “a lot” when if it closes. While I believe that most people don’t think … Continue reading
Posted in media, observation
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The Wall Street Journal joins the Rumor-3-osphere
It’s pretty awesome to see an Apple fanboy rumor I’ve enjoyed hanging-onto since 2006 finally take the first step from the fanboy rumor-mill to the MSM-rumor mill. Here’s a quote from the rumor echo-chamber at the Wall Street Journal: “In … Continue reading
Observing the Tennessean die is like watching the Titanic sink in super slo-mo
[Note: An update to this post can be found at the bottom.] Last night, my newsreader picked up a post from an anonymous blogger who is a fan of Nashville’s NHL franchise, the Nashville Predators. In the post, the blogger … Continue reading
Posted in media, Nashville, observation
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Rumor #3 Update
The Silicon Alley Insider is reporting on what anyone who has read this blog for a while will know is my favorite rumor of all time, something they say they’ve been calling…the “iPod touch HD”. But they’ve been calling it … Continue reading
