-
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.
Chief Executive Magazine: Top Ten CEO Blogs
Blogs.com: 10 Popular CEO Blogs Worth Reading.
YoungEntrepreneur.com: Top Ten Company-Founder Blogs. Nashville Technology Council: Social Media/Blogger of the Year (2009).
Econsultancy.com:
"When it comes to discussing what the future holds, Rex Hammock is one of the guys you want to speak to."Search RexBlog.com
Archives
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Sign up for my incredible, amazing and great Barcamp Nashville session about Wikis
On Saturday, if you are attending Barcamp Nashville, sign up for my session called Wiki 101: How to Use Wikis to Do Just About Everything, scheduled for 2:30 p.m. (Rejected titles included: “Wikis are way more cool than Twitter” and … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville
9 Comments
Wish hard enough and Google will deliver
I didn’t use Google docs until about six months ago, and now I can’t remember what it was like not using it. But I’ll confess: I drive some people crazy with all my sharing of Google documents. The primary reason … Continue reading
Posted in google
4 Comments
Here’s who will run the internet if the nuts have their way
Just in time for the National Peanut Festival, AP President Tom Curley is sounding nuttier and nuttier: “Crowd-sourcing Web services such as Wikipedia, YouTube and Facebook have become preferred customer destinations for breaking news, displacing Web sites of traditional news … Continue reading
Posted in media, wiki
7 Comments
On the other hand, we may have a strong economic recovery
No Waffle Zone You know all those economists who failed to predict the 2008-09 recession and then warned of a depression but now are saying that we’re recovering, but don’t expect a robust recovery? Why do we believe these jokers? … Continue reading
Posted in observation
2 Comments
It’s not magazines that need saving
(Updated: See note added at bottom.) This may surprise the people who confuse my championing the magazine format with some delusional form of cockeyed optimism: I fully expect all magazines to die. The first magazine in America lasted one issue, … Continue reading
Posted in magazines
7 Comments
A journalist counting trend story from tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal
Over the weekend, PaidContent.org’s Staci Kramer passed along a joke via Twitter she heard at the Online News Association awards: How does a journalist count? “One, two, Trend!” I thought of that joke a few minutes ago when I saw … Continue reading
Posted in statistics
1 Comment
FTC moves to regulate paid blog endorsements
On July 28, 2005, I blogged this: “I say podcasting won’t officially be mainstream until it has its first payola scandal.” I thought of that short post (these, days, such a short post would have been relegated to Twitter) when … Continue reading
Why do some book publishers seem intent on wandering off a cliff?
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I’m standing on the edge … Continue reading
Posted in books, kindle, publishing
10 Comments
links for 2009-10-01
What I learned from Rex Hammock’s Wikipedia post | Dan McCarthy's ViralHousingFix Thanks, Dan. Coming from you, a very nice compliment indeed. (Note: Dan is chairman and CEO of Network Communications, Inc., a large network of web sites and magazines … Continue reading
Flickr now lets anyone be a gallery curator
Flickr has long had a feature called “sets” that allows a user to organize groupings of photos in any way the photographer wants to share them. Flickr recently added another feature that, at first, seems to be the same thing … Continue reading
