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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 2011
Zawinski vs. Arrington: If life were only like this
Maybe you remember the famous scene from the movie Annie Hall in which Woody Allen is annoyed by the man behind him in a movie queue for his too-loud pontifications about the theories of Marshall McLuhan. Allen steps out of … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving Venn Diagram
Later: How to make homemade, preservative free jellied cranberry sauce that looks like it came from a can. [via: @kattancock]
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November 22
I was in the fourth grade on November 22, 1963. I didn’t quite grasp what was going on, except Miss Liles was weeping when we came in from afternoon recess. And Miss Liles never showed any emotion — just a … Continue reading
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Amazon issues an update of the Kindle version of Issacson’s Steve Jobs book
Here’s a first for me. I received an email overnight from Amazon telling me that I can update the Kindle version of the book, Steve Jobs, by Walter Issacson [My review; my shared highlights and notes made while reading the … Continue reading
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The Hammock 20th Anniversary Guides to Content that Works
As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, this year marks the 20th anniversary of Hammock Inc., the company that provides me the keyboard on which I type these blog posts. Since I don’t blog a lot about what we do … Continue reading
The Kindle Fire vs. the Apple iPad isn’t really a vs.
Starting this week, customers start receiving the new 7″ touch-screen Android device from Amazon called the Kindle Fire. As with anything that suggests a company could challenge Apple in a market it dominates, I predict you will be subjected to … Continue reading
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Americans would most like to live, and most like to not live, in NYC
After seeing a few stories in my newsreader this week about cities where Americans would like to live or not live (excluding where they currently live), I visited the Harris Poll press release on which all of those stories are … Continue reading
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Google acquires Apture: Context also is king
[Note: At the end of this post, I've added a link to information regarding the "end" to the current iteration of Apture.] You know how it seems that now-a-days, it’s social media this and social media that? That’s getting dated. … Continue reading
ProductCamp Nashville (this Saturday)
If you live in the Nashville area and you’re in product development or management, product marketing or involved in a startup, you should attend this Saturday’s inaugural ProductCamp Nashville to be held at Belmont University. It’s free and there are … Continue reading
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The most amazing blogging feat ever: Niemann’s live-illustrating the NYC Marathon
A few years ago, I video blogged a half-marathon from a participant’s perspective. But that is nothing even close to what NY Time’s illustrator Christoph Neimann did while participating in Sunday’s New York Marathon. His “live-illustrating the New York City … Continue reading
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Book Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson
[Note to reader: If the word asshole offends you, stop reading now. Also, this post is about three-times longer than my typical post and only slightly shorter than the book I'm reviewing.] Open Walter Issacson’s book, Steve Jobs, to any … Continue reading
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CueCat 9.0
After a decade of research, the scientists at Amazon.com’s A9 subsidiary may have finally solved the Cuecat conjecture, the e-shopping equivalent of math’s unsolvable Riemann hypothesis. The Cuecat conjecture, named for the most spectacularly awful gadget to ever burn through … Continue reading
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