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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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Category Archives: internet
Just because you can make money from something doesn’t mean you should, and other rules of the web
Here are a few things I’ve learned from 20 years of living online, developing or managing online things and using lots and lots of things others have developed. I’ve learned them by writing and by reading about those online things. … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, blogging & bloggers, internet, observation, social media
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@AmazonMP3s very smart use of Twitter during Superbowl XLVI
If it works like it’s supposed to, this post will be an embed from Storify.com as that service makes it a snap to repost tweets in a situation like this. If you see something below (it will take a few … Continue reading
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What time is the Superbowl and thoughts on Facebook and why I blog
[Warning: This is a long and rambling post that may or may not make a point.] Superbowl XLVI (46 for you non-Romans) starts at 6:30 p.m. eastern time on the NBC television network. The teams playing are the New England Patriots and … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, identity, internet, observation
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Rexplanation: The internet isn’t just technology. It’s a place and people.
[Note: This post is a Rexplanation.] In my opinion, there are two ways people understand the internet. The first way is to understand the internet as something to use. The second way is to think of the internet as something you … Continue reading
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The frightening future of the entertainment industry
In light of last week’s posts about the entertainment industry’s effort to enact the legislation called SOPA (here and here), I saw a couple of items early this morning that reminded me that much of the reason that industry wants to out-legislate … Continue reading
Posted in content, copyright, internet, media, video
Tagged Accenture, Intellectual property, Television, youtube
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What my congressman, a SOPA sponsor, told me
Yesterday, I wrote about a meeting I attended with my congressman and friend, Jim Cooper. I shared in that post my opinion of the legislation known popularly (and unpopularly) as SOPA. In short, I oppose the legislation and view it … Continue reading
Posted in internet, Nashville, observation
Tagged Intellectual property, Jim Cooper, Nashville Tennessee
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I’d like to influence you not to worry too much about online influence gamified metrics like Klout
There’s a story by Anita Wadhwani appearing today on Tennessean.com regarding the efforts of a company called Klout to create a measurement of someone’s influence online about a particular topic. As the company is backed by the influential (in ways … Continue reading
Posted in internet, Nashville, social media
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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
Posted in internet
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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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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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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
Posted in humor, politics, twitter
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Everything’s awesome, nobody’s happy
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking about that now famous (iconic? seminal?) appearance by comedian Lewis C.K. (what’s with that name?) on Conan O’Brien’s show (the NBC one) in which he captures the zeitgeist of the current … Continue reading
Posted in apple, google, internet
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I’ve been Broganized
Thanks to superstar Chris Brogan for inviting me to join him the other day for a Skype interview about Google+, publishing, customer loyalty and what exactly the heck I do. It turns out, Chris is one of the 12 people … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, Hammock Inc., marketing, publishing, rexblog, social media
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Google+ and the identity thing
I’m on the bandwagon of Marco Arment and Dave Winer when it comes to the need for people to own and control their online identity. Facebook.com/rexhammock is not something I own; I merely use it — but RexHammock.com and RexBlog.com … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, facebook, google, identity, internet, observation, social media, twitter
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Five Reasons Domains Are Still Important
This post, including the title, is my reaction to a blog post from Evan Williams, titled, Five Reasons Domains Are Getting Less Important. Ironically, I agree with everything he writes, except one: the title. So this isn’t a negative reaction, … Continue reading
Posted in business, identity, internet, search, small business, twitter
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