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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.
RexBlog.com was created in August, 2000.
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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
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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
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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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Advice of the day: Stop waiting for your ship to come in (illustration)
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Apple, China and the Curse of Living in Interesting Times
[Note: Not that this blog has a topic, but if it did, this post is way off it. I apologize to those who have figured out this blog's topic and I promise I'll get back to it right after I … Continue reading
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Scott Adams on IP theft: “It feels like a compliment”
Recently on Twitter, I confessed a personal concern with my growing realization that the only economist who makes any sense to me is not actually an economist, but is Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip. I’ve never been … Continue reading
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Evangelicals, Catholics & Politics
Over the weekend, a group of politically-active evangelical leaders gathered in Texas to determine who they would jointly support among the candidates seeking the GOP presidential nomination. According to reports, the two finalists were Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. From … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic, John F. Kennedy, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum
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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
Why I love Tim Tebow
First off, if you knew my orange-and-blue-blooded 80-something mother-in-law whose Florida car-tag is like, “Go U Gators,” you’d know that, while she loves me, she’d disown me if I publicly wrote anything negative about Tim Tebow. True story: When Tebow … 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
Posted in internet, Nashville, observation
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
Predictions 2012: The year we all stop being panic junkies and other wishful thinking
So here we are. The beginning of a new year. That means I need to predict some stuff that I think will happen in 2012. (I think I read that once in the official bloggers’ user manual.) For whatever reason, … Continue reading
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Looking at 2011 through the rearview mirror
Tomorrow, I’ll post some 2012 predictions. Here’s how I did on my predictions for this year. Magazine apps will stop being called magazine apps: The point I was making has gone mainstream. Magazine companies are beginning to put out apps … Continue reading
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Fed Research: A&E’s Flip This House Responsible for Real Estate Bubble
On Twitter, I’ve said (primarily, as a joke) that, in addition to Wall Street, we should blame the real estate and mortgage meltdown of the late ’00s on TV shows like A&E’s “Flip This House” and The Discovery Channel’s Flip … 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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