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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
e-Mail is free, relationships are incredibly valuable
As on most days, Seth Godin has an insightful observation — today it’s about e-mail. Seth’s post is a cautionary note to marketers (Seth’s audience) about the trap e-mail lays for them (us): it’s so enticing to believe e-mail is … Continue reading
Posted in marketing
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What I’ve learned from the past year (a RexBlog re-run)
It appears from media accounts and Presidential speeches, we’re supposed to be treating this week as an anniversary, of sorts. Unlike 9/11 or Katrina, however, it’s hard for most Americans (including me) to conjure up visual imagery of any disaster … Continue reading
Posted in observation
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links for 2009-09-13
B&N Promotes Magazines Using Recycled Paper | Press Release Observation: I hope this makes all involved feel good. (tags: magazines) 'Dog Whisperer' Hopes to Lead Pack at Newsstand | WSJ.com Observation: This will succeed. Why? I would tell you, but … Continue reading
An incontrovertible truth, summed up by Calvin & Hobbs
I wondered why yesterday’s Calvin and Hobbs comic strip panel started showing up on some of “meme” tracking approaches I use to keep up with some of the geekier interests I have. Why would one particular day of Calvin and … Continue reading
Posted in observation
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Images of 9.11.2001 that we’ll never forget
Boston.com’s “The Big Picture” is displaying some incredibly moving photography related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. These images are worth all the words I could possibly write.
Posted in observation, photography
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Tennessean.com finally gets the blogging thing
Since I’ve complained for several years about the stumbles in using new-media by my local newspaper, the Gannett-owned Tennessean.com, I feel compelled to provide a shout-out this morning to their blog, Titans Insider. As I’ve long said on this blog, … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville, titans
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It’s one of those days
Today, Apple is making “An Announcement.” The event is themed, “It’s Only Rock & Roll” and all the best Apple watchers have spent weeks speculating about what will be announced. While the September announcements have traditionally been focused on new … Continue reading
Failing is not the worst thing that can happen
I read Fred Wilson‘s observations nearly everyday. If one reads Fred’s blog because he’s an early investor in such ventures as Twitter and delicious.com, then you don’t know all of what went into making Fred a successful VC. Today, he … Continue reading
Posted in observation
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links for 2009-09-07
A web-to-print tool creates personalized magazines | Springwise Helping readers take blogs offline, Zinepal lets any user convert their favourite online content into eBooks and printable, magazine-style PDFs. (tags: magazines)
A blog post from me-to-you in ‘real-time’
[via: ReadWriteWeb.com]: “All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud. There is currently only one RSS aggregator that supports … Continue reading
“A life recorder that may be this century’s wrist watch” – cir. 1945
This morning, I read a post by Michael Arrington about a “a small device that you wear on a necklace that takes photos every few seconds of whatever is around you, and records sound all day long.” Mike’s essay made … Continue reading
Posted in observation
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Top five things I’ve jotted down over the past few days, but haven’t posted anywhere
Random thoughts, in no particular order. Free vs. Pay on SWA: Here’s another experiment in “free-conomics.” Rather than charge for your baggage, Southwest charges for premium services. There are no assigned seats on an SWA plane, so your place in … Continue reading
Posted in observation
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Obligatory Snow Leopard merit badge post
When you’re a member of the Apple cult, it’s sort of like being in the Boy Scouts: you must continually earn merit badges on your way to becoming an Apple FanBoy Eagle Scout. This week, we’re all earning our Snow … Continue reading
Posted in apple
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Free-conomics
I recently read (and recommend) the book Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson. If nothing more, reading the book will allow you to argue for-or-against what it says rather than argue for-or-against what it doesn’t say, … Continue reading
Posted in books, content, Content Marketing, Custom Media, marketing, review
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Inspired
From A Hero Named Bill Cahir Dies in Afghanistan by Dana Milbank, in today’s Washington Post: On Saturday, millions watched as Ted Kennedy made his final trip to Arlington National Cemetery. With rather less attention, Arlington’s soil opened again Monday … Continue reading
Posted in observation
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