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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: October 2010
An end to the “consumption” vs. “creation” device debate
Before it launched, certain corners of executive suites at media companies hoped to define the iPad as merely a “consumption” device. Others (iincluding me) argued vigorously that it was also a “creation” device. Time has proven the iPad (and the … Continue reading
A viewer review of the Rally to Restore Sanity
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear Tony Bennett – “America the Beautiful” www.comedycentral.com Rally to Restore Sainty and/or Fear The Daily Show The Colbert Report It was beautiful today in Nashville, so I didn’t regret passing up any thought I … Continue reading
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Apple enlists Unisys to lead it into the Business Land
Last week I posted a rather long item in anticipation that there was some accuracy in the Wall Street Journal‘s report that Steve Jobs, in last week’s “Back to the Mac” event, would unveil some corporate-friendliness features of the next … Continue reading
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Nashville film project could be #1 U.S. online crowdfunded creative project, so far
To be honest, I had not heard about the crowd-funded creative project that has several Nashville connections until I read Michael Hyatt’s post this morning about the “Save Blue Like Jazz” project. Currently, the project is ranked as the #1 … Continue reading
How I set up this MacBook Pro 3-monitor desktop using Ultra Wideband wireless
Setup magic: That HDTV on the left is extending my desktop, wirelessly. That photo you see is a three-monitor setup I’ve been using in my office for the past month. It’s rather amazing for one reason: The HDTV monitor on … Continue reading
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My less than 2¢ on NPR’s current traipse through deep do-do
At the bottom of this post is an addendum that spells out in detail why I am a fan of so much about my local public radio station(s), public media in general, and NPR specifically. However, this post is focused … Continue reading
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Apple in Business Land
According to the Wall Street Journal, tomorrow Apple will unveil “a new version of its computer operating software, a development that comes as the consumer-electronics giant makes a more aggressive move to expand in a market that has historically eluded … Continue reading
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When words CEOs and CFOs use sound too good to be true
[Note: See update at the bottom of this post.] For many years, I’ve heard radio ads in which the announcer repeated the phrase, “People judge you by the words you use.” The ads touted a program that would help you … Continue reading
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The longest tail: If a tree falls in the Amazon rain forest,,,
Quote from the conclusion of a wonkish, but fascinating, paper by a three-professor team who first explored “the long tail” of Amazon in 2003 using data from 2000. This paper explores data from 2008 and compares it to their earlier … Continue reading
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Great news: Teens are writing the equivalent of two novels per year
[Note: At the end of this post, you'll find my standard warning about any post here (or article, anywhere) that includes statistics.] [Cover: The New Yorker, 10.18.10] Wow. Just when you think kids aren’t writing much, along comes a report … Continue reading
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Mikael Blomkvist and Millennium magazine would be all over Kindle Singles
“Five days after Millennium fired the first salvo, Blomkvist’s book The Mafia Banker appeared in bookshops…It was the first book to be published under Millennium’s own logo…Two-thirds of the book consisted of appendicies that were actual documentation…At the same time … Continue reading
Rex Answers: To find something on Apple.com, use Google
[For an answer to the question "What is Rex Answers?" scroll to the bottom of this post.] Several questions I’ve been asked recently can all be distilled to this: How do you find what you’re looking for on the website … Continue reading
An example of where Amazon excels: Kindle for the Web
A few days ago, Amazon announced the feature “Kindle for the Web”: A feature allowing someone to share the Kindle version of the first chapter of a book as embedded content on a website (for an example, scroll to the … Continue reading
Required reading: A startup founder explains why his company failed while the competitor succeeded
“Focus on what really matters: making users happy with your product as quickly as you can, and helping them as much as you can after that. If you do those better than anyone else out there you’ll win.” (Marc Hedlund) If you … Continue reading
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