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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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SOPA & PIPA Update: How the entertainment industry is losing the narrative
I think people who say, “I don’t like to say ‘I told you so, but…’” are precisely the kind of people who like to say, “I told you so.” So I’ll try this another way: I don’t like being that … Continue reading
If you start now, you can be ready for the Country Music Half-Marathon
This is a shout-out for an event that takes place in Nashville every April, the St. Jude Country Music Marathon and 1/2 Marathon. This year, the event is on Saturday, April 28, and there will be 30,000+ participants in the … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Intellectual property, Jim Cooper, Nashville Tennessee
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What I told my congressman, a sponsor of SOPA
[See follow-up post: "What my congressman, a sponsor of SOPA, told me"] This morning I attended a meeting with my congressman and longtime friend, Jim Cooper. The small gathering was one of two he held today to hear from people … Continue reading
The 2011 Top 12 Best Ever Last Minute Tennessee Related Christmas Gifts
Admit it. You blew the entire weekend before Christmas not getting out there and expressing your consumer spirit — the spirit necessary to send this old Scrooge of an economy packing. Fear not, for I bring you tidings of great … Continue reading
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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
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RexBlog’s 2011 musician of the year: Noam Pikelny
Wednesday night at Nashville’s most awesome venue, the Station Inn, I enjoyed the performance of Noam Pikelny (and friends) so much, I decided to create a new feature called “Musician of the Year.” As I don’t blog about music except … Continue reading
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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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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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Doc Searls on the death of Gil Templeton
When I first met Doc Searls many years ago and he learned I was from Nashville, one of the first things he asked me was if I knew Gil Templeton. “I certainly know about Gil,” I said. I explained to … Continue reading
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Nashville: After the flood, the music stayed alive
Itzhak Perlman, Nashville Symphony,reopen Schermerhorn Symphony Center.(Click for Tennessean.com Photo Gallery) Last night, I attended an amazing musical event in Nashville, the city I call home and a place where music is our first name. It’s pretty challenging to stage … Continue reading
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It’s beginning to look a lot like…
As dcorating a Christmas tree while it is snowing outside is such an unprecedented event in our home in Nashville*, I decided to note it here. For more about the photo, visit Flickr. *Nashville averages nine inches of snow annually, … Continue reading
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Davis-Kidd said goodbye to me several years ago
I could go on-and-on about missing Davis-Kidd, the once-wonderful and once-independent bookstore in Nashville, whose bankrupt corporate owners yesterday announced was closing. (Karen Davis and Thelma Kidd sold it 13 years ago.) The commenters on this post at NashvilleScene.com are … Continue reading
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Nashville film project could be #1 U.S. online crowdfunded creative project, so far
To be honest, I had not heard about the crowd-funded creative project that has several Nashville connections until I read Michael Hyatt’s post this morning about the “Save Blue Like Jazz” project. Currently, the project is ranked as the #1 … Continue reading
The benefits of having your disaster snubbed by the national media
The Weather Channel’s Master of Disaster (via) Yesterday, Andrew Romano wrote a piece for The Gaggle Blog on Newsweek.com called, “Why the Media Ignored the Nashville Flood.” Quote: “…the modern media may be more multifarious than ever, but they’re also … Continue reading
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