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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: April 2009
The Economist detects green-shoots in the economic narrative
About a month ago, I wrote about my notice of a shift in the media’s economic narrative. For the first time since September, I was beginning to read stories that did not fall lock-step into the economic abyss narrative — … Continue reading
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You didn’t get Twitter before Oprah didn’t get Twitter (nor did I)
@Oprah I don’t get Twitter. I don’t get Twitter despite being on Twitter for two years and five months and posting 4,304 updates and having about 3,000 people decide for some reason I don’t get to follow the random stuff … Continue reading
Posted in conversational media, twitter
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links for 2009-04-18
Animal Spirits (Book Review) | NYTimes.com NYT Review of Books review of George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller's book about the role of psychology in the economy. I have predicted this will be the book most referred to as … Continue reading
links for 2009-04-17
Wow, this is random: Note: For several months, I’ve been wondering why these daily posts of my delicious.com/rexblog bookmarks haven’t been auto-posting. And then, bang, it posts. Go figure. Why Are Magazines So Bad at Updating Addresses | Freakonomics Blog … Continue reading
7 reasons to use Twitter (that I wrote before there was such a thing as Twitter)
A few years ago, I wrote a post that included an accidental list of seven recommendations about blogging. I just ran across it and decided if the words blog and blogging were changed to refer to Twitter, it could be … Continue reading
Posted in conversational media, twitter
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Markets are people, not just conversations
I just read (via @davewiner) what Doc Searls labels “beer notes.” Read it. It’s filled with wisdom including this sentence: Talking may be social, but listening is personal. No surprise to those who read this blog regularly: I belong to … Continue reading
Mine magazine is not exactly ‘my’ way
I just posted a set of photos of the first issue of Mine Magazine on Flickr (or view, left). Last month, I wrote about the “customizable” magazine Time Inc. has created for advertiser Lexus. As I wrote then, the idea … Continue reading
Posted in Custom Media, custom publishing, magazines, marketing
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My first-ever post about a Portugese Water Dog
John’s daughter and Winston John Lavey, the president and coo of Hammock Inc., is a member of a family that includes a Portugese Water Dog. He has some hilarious Porty-family-to-Porty-family advice for the Obamas. “It’s a dog that will attach … Continue reading
The Hope Train ’rounds the bend on its trip to that house upon a rock
[See note at bottom that explains what "Hope Train" posts are, and are not.] (via: AP): “In the speech, the president juggles a glass-half-full take on the economy with a determination to not be seen as naive about how well … Continue reading
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That light you see at the end of the tunnel is the Hope Train approaching
(via: AFP) President Obama today said he sees “glimmers of hope” that the US economy may be wrestling free of a paralyzing recession but warned of “a lot of work” ahead to nurse it back to health. “We’re starting to … Continue reading
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Marketing Basics: The rule of unintended consequences
When the Kindle II was released earlier this year, it included something Amazon touted as a “read-aloud” feature. Here’s a quote from NYTimes.com’s live-blog coverage of the release event on February 2: “Any book, blog, magazine or personal document can … Continue reading
Posted in kindle, marketing, publishing
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A music review: Sara Watkins first post Nickel Creek album, ‘Sara Watkins’
Wow. It’s a RexBlog post about music. But I couldn’t help myself. Longtime readers know I used to post occasional items about music — but they and I quickly discovered it was not my calling so my music-related items got … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville, observation
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The Library of Congress on YouTube proves all “new media” starts with crazy cat photos
Cat Boxing, 1894 The Library of Congress today announced the launch of a Library of Congress YouTube Channel. There are only about 70 videos now, but according to the blog post, the LOC is “not just going to upload a … Continue reading
Danny Sullivan’s response to the maggots* who run newspapers
When it comes to truly understanding and interpreting the role of search (especially Google) in how we use the web, my go-to source for understanding is Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land. Today, he has let loose some inner-Howard … Continue reading
Posted in media, search
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