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Rex Hammock’s RexBlog.com
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: June 2009
links for 2009-06-23
Oh, to be the Economist | BuzzMachine Quote: The problem for the rest of the industry is that they can’t all break the rules as The Economist does because they’re just not that good. You have to be great to … Continue reading
links for 2009-06-22
A Study of Wikipedia Vandalism | Wikipedia Gist: A stats professor studies the distribution of the length of time that vandalism remains on the English-language Wikipedia and finds that most vandalism gets corrected within four minutes. (tags: statistics wikipedia) Google … Continue reading
Why I believe the Steve Jobs story is local (last of a series)
[A follow-up to my earlier Steve Jobs-related posts on Saturday, Sunday and earlier today)] If you’re just now entering this multi-post thread, I suggest you click on one of those links above to catch up. On second thought, it’s probably not … Continue reading
The lame state of local reporting – continued
Following up on my earlier Steve Jobs related posts (Saturday, Sunday): Local-angle update: A Tennessee media outlet (the Memphis Commerical Appeal) finally posted a local-angle story. Unfortunately, there is nothing new or local in the story that was not ferreted … Continue reading
Posted in apple, media
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links for 2009-06-21
MIT Developing Concrete That Lasts for 16,000 Years It's not one of my usually bookmarked types of stories, but interesting, nonetheless. (tags: future) Reader's Digest to New York Times: What are you people smoking? | Foliomag.com You remember the other … Continue reading
The Steve Jobs Story grows curiouser and curiouser
It is Sunday in Tennessee. Since there are Sunday editions of many papers in the state, we’re now 38 or so hours into a curious lack of any coverage (in print or online) by local media attempting to verify where … Continue reading
Posted in apple, media, Nashville
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links for 2009-06-20
Ray Bradbury doesn't <3 the Internet | NYTimes.com Quote of the day: “Yahoo called me eight weeks ago. They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell … Continue reading
The beginning of the end of the Kindle?
For almost as long as there has been a Kindle, I’ve (somewhat jokingly) attempted to “outsource” my blogging on that topic to my friend Aaron Pressman. Aaron is a very professional journalist, but his Kindle-coverage has been as a personal … Continue reading
Tennessee media apparently don’t believe Steve Jobs’ liver transplant is a story, much less a local story
About 11 p.m., Friday, WSJ.com broke a story about Steve Jobs having a liver transplant in Tennessee. 12 hours later, no Tennessee media outlet has picked up the story or has sought to answer the obvious questions: Where (what hospital)? … Continue reading
links for 2009-06-19
Return of the Contact Scrapping Virus Vermin | NYTimes.com Bottomline: Don't give any social media service access to your contact list unless you know who they are and exactly they use it. And, especially, don't give it to the service … Continue reading
The unintended consequences of Facebook-fear in the workplace
The second most asked question I receive about social networking from my off-line business friends who know “I do something related to all that stuff” is about some negative situation related to employees use of Facebook or Twitter. Usually it … Continue reading
Posted in facebook, social media, social networks
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links for 2009-06-18
New York City Homicides Map | The New York Times One of the most comprehensive (and frightening) interactive graphics I have ever seen. (tags: graphics statistics) Reader’s Digest Moves Right of Middle-America | NYTimes.com Observation: I love it when the … Continue reading
Is there such a thing as a Google Profile widget?
Rex HammockCreate Your Badge I guess you could say this post is literally a Google search query. Ironically, it’s a question about Google that I can’t locate via Google — perhaps because I don’t know how to word it. It’s … Continue reading
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A little embedable light reading from Google Books
Earlier today, Google launched a redesigned interface on Google Books and added an “embed” feature (click on “Link”). Below, I’ve embedded Tolstoy’s War and Peace to give you something to read while waiting for my next post. Actually, I think … Continue reading
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How headlines shape the news
Via Google Reader, I just noticed two headlines that seemed to report conflicting news. A click to the actual stories revealed a rather significant variation in the headline spin on stories reporting numbers released a few moments ago by the … Continue reading
Posted in media, observation
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