Category Archives: publishing

Review: Gutenberg the Geek by Jeff Jarvis

Posted on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 by Rex Hammock

Last October, while reading Jeff Jarvis’ Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live, his compelling examination of the way in which the internet has changed — and challenged — various notions and … Continue reading →

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Web companies discover a century-old corporate media tradition that’s always new

Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2012 by Rex Hammock

An article by Brian Stelter in today’s New York Times (temporary non-punitive URL: http://nyti.ms/xmYt1L) reports that Tumblr is hiring editors and writers to cover itself.* Quote from the executive editor Tumblr has hired: “Basically, if Tumblr were a city of … Continue reading →

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Inst@Review: iBook Author isn’t just an ebook authoring tool

Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 by Rex Hammock

[Note: Shortly after I posted this, I edited it to remove a rant I had that I've since discovered was misinformed. I've explained it at the bottom of the post.] Apple introduced an incredible product today called iBooks Author. Apple describes … Continue reading →

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Amazon issues an update of the Kindle version of Issacson’s Steve Jobs book

Posted on Saturday, November 19, 2011 by Rex Hammock

Here’s a first for me. I received an email overnight from Amazon telling me that I can update the Kindle version of the book, Steve Jobs, by Walter Issacson [My review; my shared highlights and notes made while reading the … Continue reading →

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The Hammock 20th Anniversary Guides to Content that Works

Posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 by Rex Hammock

As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, this year marks the 20th anniversary of Hammock Inc., the company that provides me the keyboard on which I type these blog posts. Since I don’t blog a lot about what we do … Continue reading →

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