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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.
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Category Archives: breaking news
Why the White House situation room photo is so powerful
[Last update: 5/5/2011, 12:11 pm, CST] [This is a post about why photography is a unique and powerful medium, even in an era when I spend a lot of time preaching to people that learning to edit video on the … Continue reading
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What ‘Second coming type’ looks like on a website front page
On the walls of most newspaper newsrooms I’ve visited over the years, there are displayed some framed front pages of issues reporting historic events. The term “second-coming type” is the phrase I’ve heard to describe the screaming headlines that dominate … Continue reading
Posted in breaking news, media
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Where to help with Haiti earthquake relief
(Note: This post is a collection of links to aid organizations that have set up funding channels specifically for Haiti Earthquake relief. Note to bloggers: Other times, I might want you to link to this blog for self-serving SEO reasons. … Continue reading
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Whitehouse.gov is now a blog, get over it
Last night, I grabbed a screenshot of Whitehouse.gov so I could compare it to what is today, a new site. The design and typography reflect the look established by the Obama campaign, however, the “new” site brings along some standard … Continue reading
Posted in breaking news, design
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My running list of online inauguration things that wow me
Click arrows to see photos recently uploaded to the Inauguration 2009 Group on Flickr. This is going to be an “open post” that I add to over the next couple of days as I see online coverage of the inauguration … Continue reading
Random ideas regarding the ‘economic stabilization’ plan
Who knew? It is really dark before the dawn. With the bailout/rescue plan “sealed”, this is what I think I know: 1. Everyone blames someone else for allowing the situation to get to this point.2. Everyone regrets that we’re in … Continue reading
Posted in breaking news, observation
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Where to find information about Hurricane Ike
During the days preceding the landfall of Hurricane Gustav, I pointed to an online community and wiki developed by individuals, many of whom were veterans of the post-Katrina online efforts building on their previous experience and information. That effort has … Continue reading
Posted in breaking news, social media, social networks
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Earthquake updates, via Twitter
A little less than an hour ago, I received a phone call from my 17-year-old son who is attending a month-long program at the University of Southern California. “There was just an earthquake” he said. “I’m okay,” he said. “It … Continue reading
Posted in breaking news, twitter
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Using Flickr to archive Internet ephemera
Earlier tonight, I was curious how different business news websites were covering the breaking story of the JPMorgan Chase acquisition of Bear Stearns. As there are now plenty of heavily-staffed business news websites that represent traditional magazine and newspaper companies, … Continue reading
Posted in b2b, blogging, breaking news, internet, magazines, media
Tagged blogging, internet
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Did WSJ.com and NYTimes.com cross the line last week?
Last week, I wrote that while I believed it was brilliant, the animated Apple advertisement that appeared on the front page of NYTimes.com and, especially, the Wall Street Journal website, may have crossed some as-yet-determined line of what is okay … Continue reading
How to get an RSS feed with tons of ‘free’ stories on WSJ.com
In the previous post, I linked to Kevin Rose’ post about the WSJ.com adding a Digg button to the bottom of pages throughout the site. Obviously, the real news in Kevin’s blog post is that every story that is “dugg” … Continue reading
WSJ executive ‘corrects’ new boss and says the pay wall may not come down, but then Kevin Rose ‘diggs’ a hole through it
[Here's a test: If you don't have a subscription to WSJ.com and you can click this link and end up there, then, well, the WSJ.com is free. See the "update" below for the secret to this trick.] First, you gotta … Continue reading
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Breaking: WSJ.com to drop subscription
[via: AP]: “Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of the News Corporation, said today that he intended to make access to The Wall Street Journal’s Web site free, trading subscription fees for anticipated ad revenue. “We are studying it and we expect … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, breaking news, business, media
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Joi Ito: Major damage to Asian Internet access from earthquake
Joi is blogging about the major damage to Asian Internet access caused by an earthquake off the coast of Taiwan: “This really throws the notion of “cyberspace” into the physical world. My sympathies to everyone affected. Hope they figure out … Continue reading
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