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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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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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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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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
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How to use Twitter to become the leading GOP presidential candidate (among Democrats)
[Note: Because of its unique features that make adding tweets (and other sidebar media) to text a snap, I wrote this post at Storify.com and am displaying it here.] [View the story “How to use Twitter to become the most … Continue reading
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I won’t be at SXSW, but not because I gave it up for Lent
If you are attending the interactive part of the gigantic Austin, Tex., music, film and interactive “festival” called South by Southwest (or, as the locals say, “South-by”), I suggest you attend today’s panel at 2 p.m. called “How To Not … Continue reading
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For my uni-monitored friends
In reference to my recent post regarding my three-monitor setup, a person who shall remain nameless, but whose initials are Bill Hudgins, emailed me today’s Dilbert comic strip.
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A viewer review of the Rally to Restore Sanity
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear Tony Bennett – “America the Beautiful” www.comedycentral.com Rally to Restore Sainty and/or Fear The Daily Show The Colbert Report It was beautiful today in Nashville, so I didn’t regret passing up any thought I … Continue reading
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Great news: Teens are writing the equivalent of two novels per year
[Note: At the end of this post, you'll find my standard warning about any post here (or article, anywhere) that includes statistics.] [Cover: The New Yorker, 10.18.10] Wow. Just when you think kids aren’t writing much, along comes a report … Continue reading
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Okay, okay. This Steve Jobs presser parody video was too hard to pass up
The weird thing is, despite Steve Jobs being the butt of the joke below, most of my Apple-fan friends will see this as a “tribute piece.” I guess that’s why it’s called irony. As a reminder to those just catching … Continue reading
Google collects a 32% sales commission on ads it sells for non-Google websites
Today, “in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers,” Google posted a message on its AdSense Blog that 68% of the revenue that Google collects for ads appearing on AdSense partners websites (i.e., websites that are not owned by … Continue reading
Googling the meaning of open
The official Google Blog has a long, long Bill Clintonesque essay on the “meaning of open” that goes on and on with nuggets like this: “The topic of open seems to be coming up a lot lately at Google. I’ve … Continue reading
No, Virginia, the Apple Tablet is a big fat Fairy Tale
Dear Rex: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say that Apple will be coming out with a cool device that’s like an iPod Touch or iPhone, but only bigger — you know, like the rumor you … Continue reading
Video: How to use adjectives just like Steve
(via: waxy.org)
Panel proposals you missed on the SXSW Panel Picker
As there are 2,221 proposals on the “Panel Picker” for next March’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival, perhaps you’ve missed these: We Just Saw Robert Scoble: A panel of SXSW attendees who just saw Robert Scoble share their thoughts on … Continue reading
Jon Stewart meets T-Pain and the Chipmunks
As I’m fortunate enough to have an 18-year-old son, I actually know that Auto-Tune is what hip-hop artists (notably, T-Pain) use to get that distorted “electronic” voice and to change pitch without speeding a recording (think Chipmunks). (Or, if you … Continue reading
