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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: October 2011
Kindle for Mac app gets even better
Recently, I blogged that the Kindle for Mac application (app) is the best way to read a book in the context of research (for example, if you’re a student or author doing research). Today, Amazon updated the software with more features … Continue reading
Let them occupy
[Note: It goes without saying, the following post is a personal opinion -- like everything else on this blog.] While I’ve made fun of some of the political theater and in-articulate nature of the people I call occupyists, let me … Continue reading
Posted in Nashville, observation
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The book that launched a thousand spoilers
Sometime during the next few hours, readers will be able to start downloading the biography, Steve Jobs, by Walter Issacson, the most anticipated new book since, well, whatever the name of the last Harry Potter book was. While I didn’t … Continue reading
Saturday-afternoon project: Server-rack standup desk
I’ve been wanting a stand-up desk at work and have been keeping my eye out for a drafting table like one I have at home — a beautiful old piece I found, and my incredibly talented wood-working and artist father-in-law … Continue reading
Posted in diversion
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Flying cars and next year
About 10 percent of the 12 readers of this blog read it because they keep thinking I’ll one day start blogging again about flying cars the way I did as a one-year experiment in 2008. One of the reasons I … Continue reading
Posted in humor, observation
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Redundant redundancy in UI design
I’m all for ease-of-use and intuitive user-interface (UI) design. Usability is my middle name. Well, actually, Rex is my middle name, but whatever. However, my desktop is getting confusing, now that we’ve started the journey from browser-based interactions with the … Continue reading
Posted in design, internet
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Occupyism
I was going to write a post about the Occupy movement. Then, I remembered: I wrote one on March 1, 2009. I still have a potential post or two about this topic, however. One will be related to how occupyism … Continue reading
Posted in observation
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These Kindle Fire children’s books are not just ebooks, they’re apps
When the Hammock children, both now over two-decades old, were brand new, they were never more than a few inches away from an Eric Carle book. (The Very Hungry Caterpillar* is likely the book I have read out-loud more times … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, books, iPad, kindle, publishing
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Steve: An appreciation
My son called me from his college dorm earlier this evening to ask how I was doing. As I was out to dinner, I said, what do you mean?. “Oh, I’m sorry,” he said. “Steve Jobs died.” Moments later, my … Continue reading
Posted in appreciation
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Hammock marks its 20th anniversary
This week is the 20th anniversary of Hammock, the company I named in honor of a rope-swing napping device hanging from some trees in my backyard (and not, as some have suggested, because it’s an eponym).* It started out being … Continue reading
Posted in appreciation, Hammock Inc., Hammock Publishing
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The best Kindle Reader for students and researchers is, what, a Mac?
If, like me, you do lots of highlighting and note-taking while reading a book, or if book-reading and note-taking are a part of your professional work-flow (students and researchers of any kind, for example), the frustration of not being able … Continue reading
Posted in amazon, kindle
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Chief Executive magazine spurs a RexBlog Sally Fields moment
So, excuse this interruption for some shameless self-promotion, but I’m honored (baffled a bit, yet honored) that this 11-year-old blog is included in the current issue of Chief Executive magazine, on a list their editors have selected as the Top … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, rexblog, shameless self-promotion, social media
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