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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: September 2009
Why I use Wikipedia to follow major news events like the Samoa earthquake and tsunami
It’s worth taking a look at the Wikipedia entry regarding yesterday’s earthquake and resulting tsunami in the south Pacific. As some people know, I am in awe of Wikipedia and its underlying technology, culture, community and practices. (That’s another post … Continue reading
Happy “5th” Anniversary, Podcasting (well, not actually)
First off: Today is not actually the fifth anniversary of podcasting. Dave Winer had demo’d file enclosures distributed via RSS over three years earlier. In other words, RSS-enabled audio and video distribution was almost four years old, five years ago … Continue reading
Vanity Fair/60 Minutes team up to reveal what Hinterlanders think
I guess people who read Vanity Fair and watch 60 Minutes don’t have Kara Swisher’s real-life friends to let them know what real people think. For those who don’t know who Kara is, she’s the plugged-in and influential tech journalist/pundit … Continue reading
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Online, in print — it’s all about capturing, sharing and preserving the story
Boston.com’s “Big Picture” collection of moving photography of flooding from the southeast makes me think there’s an instant magazine in there somewhere (see yesterday’s post).
Posted in media, photography
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That Strange Light you’re seeing is the future of magazines
Derek Powazek’s Strange Lightis a 40-page magazine that featuresstunning photography fromthe Great Australian Dust Storm of 2009.The dust storm occurred two days ago. “Strange light fell over Australia on 23 September 2009. An unexpected dust storm blanketed New South Wales … Continue reading
Posted in magazines, publishing
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Valuation Joke
Jason Fried of 37signals (the company that provides the “not-free” web-application Basecamp, the project management software my colleagues and I use at Hammock Inc.) wrote a rather amusing post in the guise of a Press Release on his company’s blog … Continue reading
Posted in observation
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links for 2009-09-23
More Than 1,800 Full Issues Of Life Now On Google Books | paidContent Gist: Every issue of Life has been digitized and is now on Google Books. (Background for digital natives: Life used to be a magazine that everyone read … Continue reading
My river of business news thinks the economy is recovering
I don’t know what this means, so I’m choosing to believe it’s some RSS-induced positive karma indicating good things about the economy. Last night when I opened Google Reader, these three headlines were lined up, one-after-another, in a feed folder … Continue reading
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The myth of what digital natives know
Ancient analog native training film Since Monday was a national holiday in Japan called Respect for the Aged Day, I think it’s only appropriate that during this week, I use my fast-approaching “aged” status to bash the notion that “digital … Continue reading
Posted in observation
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People who hang the title “MIT study” on a student project are likely fake science writers
It seems logical to me that people who friend lots of people on Facebook who own labrador retrievers are likely owners of a lab themselves. So if the Boston Globe does a story about two MIT students who do a … Continue reading
Posted in social networks
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links for 2009-09-19
A Gallery Ripped From a Magazine’s Pages | NYTimes.com Describing themselves as the modern version of Life magazine, the Polka brand now consists of a gallery, magazine and Web site. (tags: magazines)
Multiple choice test: What lesson can we learn from the coach who doesn’t let his team punt?
“It’s like someonesaid, punting is whatyou do on fourth downand everyone didit without asking why.” A story in this week’s Sports Illustrated profiles the radical approach to football conventions taken by Kevin Kelley, coach of the Pulaski (Arkansas) Academy Bruins … Continue reading
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How to develop a successful media franchise
Here are the keys to developing a successful media franchise. 1. Choose a topic about which people love to argue — the more passionately they like to argue over the topic, the better. Make sure there are two distinct camps … Continue reading
Posted in media
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Video: How to use adjectives just like Steve
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At home with my friend, Alice Randall
My friend, the novelist Alice Randall, is profiled in an “At Home” feature in Thursday’s New York Times (D-1). The online version has already been posted and features a wonderful slideshow of photographs of the home of Alice and her … Continue reading
Posted in books, Nashville
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