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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: November 2010
Project Train wreck: Virgin’s new magazine app is crap
If the instructions for your magazine app looks like this, you shouldn’t call it a magazine. Peter Kafka of All Things D has this to say about Project, “the revolutionary magazine built for iPad: “It’s pretty similar to most of … Continue reading
Posted in iPad, magazines
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Black Friday Comparison RexLinks: Kayne Edition
Since that whole Taylor Swift incident revealed to the rest of us (anyone who is not under the age 30 or is not a fan of his) just how bizarre Kayne West is, I thought his album released this week … Continue reading
Distracted RexLinks
I was going to link more stuff, but I got distracted because I was playing Angry Birds and watching YouTube videos: Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction – NYTimes.com – Can’t decide if this is fake trend story or a … Continue reading
Sunday RexLinks: A startup bubble? A Jobs-Murdoch news app? Don’t believe everything you read
If there’s a theme in today’s links, it’s this: Come on people. Just because you read something via the internets don’t make it so. The Shadow Scholar | The Chronicle of Higher Education – A first person story written by … Continue reading
Saturday morning RexLinks: Tiny Bubbles?
[RexLinks are items I run-across, and bookmark, using Google Reader] If you’ve been following my RexLinks experiment, you perhaps have noticed I’m not posting them automatically. Rather, I’m choosing to wait until I can add a little bit of context … Continue reading
Why are we seeing all those intense Jimbo-banners? Because they work.
Direct marketers and the customers who buy from them (or contribute to them) will find fascinating this transparent look at the A/B testing of banner advertising by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that brings you Wikipedia. The A/B testing … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, marketing, wiki
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Recent RexLinks: Killer Magazines
Recent RexLinks are items I’ve bookmarked on Google Reader: iPad, iPhone Google Docs editing | Google – Now I can use my iPad for something more than consumption. (Sorry, lame inside joke.) 16 Months Later, Say Hello To Google Voice … Continue reading
Why Boutiques.com is a big-deal tech and marketing story
I’ve often said on this blog, if the first place you learn the inside story about a new technology-related product is the New York Times, then it’s likely doomed. The reason (for those of you who aren’t among the 12 … Continue reading
Posted in search
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Magical Mystery Math: The Beatles First Day on iTunes
While it ended up being a lot less eventful than a typical Apple announcement, the much delayed (by 8 or so years) appearance of 13 Beatles studio albums and the “Beatles Box Set” on the iTunes store finally occurred today … Continue reading
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A life measured by LP, 8-track, Cassette, CD and MP4
I was in the fourth grade on February 7, 1964. Let me help those who may need some point of reference by noting that others who were around the same age in 1964 were Sally Draper (Mad Men), Kevin Arnold … Continue reading
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RexLinks 11.16.10: Jim Henson, Copy-Right & Wrong, Get off My Lawn
RexLinks are items I’ve bookmarked to share using Google Reader during the past 24 hours: Jim Henson’s Time Piece [1965] – I can’t believe I’ve never seen this puppet-less short that received an Oscar nomination. Thanks, YouTube. Geeks and Tweaks: … Continue reading
There are 2 Googles: Lucy Google and Pigpen Google
From where I sit (which, unfortunately, is in front of a screen too much of the time), I’ve come to believe there are two Googles. For this post, I’ll call them Lucy Google and Pigpen Google. Lucy Google is neat … Continue reading
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RexLinks (Weekend Version)
Here are some items (with a brief commentaries) I bookmarked over the weekend using Google Reader.: Why iPad Magazine Apps Suck: They're Defined By The Past, Not The Future | Techdirt – Yet another essay on the obvious: As I … Continue reading
RexLinks for November 12th
RexLinks are items I’ve bookmarked to share on Google Reader during the past 24 hours: In Central Park, Finding a Bed Among the Trees | NYTimes.com – While this article makes it sound as if these brothers thought up the … Continue reading
Davis-Kidd said goodbye to me several years ago
I could go on-and-on about missing Davis-Kidd, the once-wonderful and once-independent bookstore in Nashville, whose bankrupt corporate owners yesterday announced was closing. (Karen Davis and Thelma Kidd sold it 13 years ago.) The commenters on this post at NashvilleScene.com are … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville, observation
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