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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: May 2011
links for 2011-05-15
Facebook smeared Google? C'mon! | Jack Shafer – Slate Magazine Jack's point is well made. PR tactics may sometimes be slimy, but that doesn't mean it's a smear. Hiring or enlisting a third party to spread something negative about your … Continue reading
links for 2011-05-14
Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks? Slate Magazine I say, "yes". Another thing, I think we should also follow the British style of leaving "." off abbreviations like Mr and Mrs (tags: punctuation) Honestly.com – Not acting so … Continue reading
Jeff Bezos wants to be the -killer -killer
Back in 2009, I wrote a blog post called, “I suggest bloggers kill the word kill in subject lines,” in which I repeated my long-held pet rant about the use of the hyphenated -kill or -killer by bloggers and tech-writers. … Continue reading
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Wow: It’s from AOL and it’s great (so it must be somehow evil): AIM AV
Last week, AOL had an “employees only” message on a new video-conferencing platform attached to the Domain Name (http://www.aim.com/av) we all associate with AOL’s “Instant Messaging.” The “employees only” message is now off the page, so I guess that means … Continue reading
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links for 2011-05-12
Group Commerce Raises $10mm for Daily Deals Platform | AllThingsD While I try to avoid links to startup-fundraising stories, the "like-groupon for…" category fascinates me — especially when it involves solutions that focus on organizations with existing relationships with large … Continue reading
links for 2011-05-11
Tablet as Magazine Savior? Not So Fast | WWD.com At the National Magazine Awards Monday night there was a decidedly less-than-enthusiastic feel to everything tablet-y. (tags: ipad)
links for 2011-05-10
In a World Without Tracking & Cookies, Can Online Commerce Succeed? | Mashable VRM Update for those who want to be ahead of the curve on the next new thing (that people have been working on for the past decade): … Continue reading
I’m sorry too: Apple Has Put iFlow Reader Out of Business
As I’ve said many times on this blog, when it comes to ebook reader apps, I’m a loyal user of the Kindle App on the iPad. However, the only ebook reader that I’ve tried that displayed creativity and unique insight … Continue reading
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Why Jon Meacham’s ebook is better because he’s no longer at Newsweek
Former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, when not writing cover essays for Time magazine, is now an executive vice president at Random House. Today, Meacham and Random House released something that I, as both a reader and professional magazine-geek, believe is … Continue reading
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links for 2011-05-09
2011 Logo Trends | LogoLounge.com Quote: A logo is no longer a single piece of flat art. It can be a favicon, an icon, or an entire set of marks that work together to support the team. Its boundaries have become … Continue reading
Infographic: A (dec)line graph of the name Rex
[Click to embiggen.] On Thursday, the Social Security Administration added 2010 baby names to its web-accessible database of top 1,000 popular names for boy and girl babies. Reuters says reality television and movies have influenced the rapid rise of such … Continue reading
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links for 2011-05-07
Apple’s Little Known Facts | Macstories.com Key quote: Steve Jobs hired dean of Yale School of Management Joel Podolny to run the Apple University, an internal group also featuring business professors and Harvard veterans that are writing a series of … Continue reading
links for 2011-05-06
Stolen Camera Finder [@R] Stolen Camera Finder – Uses serial number stored on photos to search web for photos taken w/ same camera. http://re-x.me/stolencamerafinder [Selected tweets from 5/6] (tags: tweet) iPhone app – Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide Take a photo … Continue reading
links for 2011-05-05
National Library of Medicine Releases Embryo Apps Features include human fertilization videos, photo micrographs of early-stage embryo development, 2D and 3D digital images using visual stack dissections, and a pregnancy calculator. (tags: apps)
9/11 Memorial, May 5, 2011
When I see TV coverage of something like the visit President Obama is making to the site where the 9/11 Memorial is under construction, the tight-shots on TV can cause me to lose my bearings. As my family includes a … Continue reading
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