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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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Inst@Review: iBook Author isn’t just an ebook authoring tool
[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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Inst@Review: Tailor, Tinker, ZZZZ, zzzzz
Apologies to the person from the UK who is one of the 12 readers of this blog, but many years ago, I discovered that, for me, the perfect cure for insomnia is listening to the World Service of the BBC. … 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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Venn Diagram Inst@Review of the Movie Moneyball
Addendum: I thought I’d written a blog-post review of the book when it came out, but google helped me discover it wasn’t on my blog, it was on Amazon.com. So, for the record, here is a copy of what I … Continue reading
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My once-a-year bluegrass post: Steve Martin’s Rare Bird Alert
While some of you may know my friend @bobcarrigan for that tech media gig he has or maybe for that internet advertising thing he does. However, for me, Bob Carrigan is my go-to source on all things banjo. Bob’s the … Continue reading
And the winners will be…
I’ll probably be live-tweeting some of the Oscars tonight, so I wanted to post my predictions before hand. Last year, I saw all of the films nominated for Best Movie. This year, I saw only seven of the nominated films … Continue reading
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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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My review of the Sharpie Liquid Pencil
From the RexLabs Since the dawn of time, humans have been seeking a breath mint that tastes like a candy mint and a candy mint that works like a breath mint. Yet, whenever someone comes out with two-, two-, two-mints-in … Continue reading
In the end, Lost was not about being found
(Note: This post contains spoilers about the TV series Lost and was posted on the morning after the show’s finale first aired on broadcast TV in the U.S.) I loved the “the end” of Lost. Well, it wasn’t exactly “love.” … Continue reading
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Ironman 2, Walt Disney and the Sherman Brothers
Over the weekend, I saw Ironman 2 and liked it in the empty-caloried way it was intended. Lots of cool computer interface stuff and explosions strung together with a very thin plot line. So, well, what is there not to … Continue reading
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Free-conomics
I recently read (and recommend) the book Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson. If nothing more, reading the book will allow you to argue for-or-against what it says rather than argue for-or-against what it doesn’t say, … Continue reading
Posted in books, content, Content Marketing, Custom Media, marketing, review
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NPR.org’s new website: The challenge of real-time
Without a doubt, the newly re-launched NPR.org website is tremendously improved. From a story about the relaunch of NPR.org in today’s New York Times: “The changes to NPR’s Web site are intended to make it easier for users to find … Continue reading
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The Kindle doesn’t suck, but it would be insane to pay $1,500 for one
Positive #8: Kindle’s‘experimental’ browser is so bad, it’s good. I’ve had an Amazon Kindle for over a week. (Sidenote: I purchased it after they started saying it wouldn’t be available until after Christmas). There are some things I like about … Continue reading
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Nashville City Paper launches blogs (good) and an extremely awful thing called the e-paper
The Nashville City Paper has launched four weblogs focusing on pop culture, sports, politics and style That’s all good. Can’t have enough Nashville blogs — and local blog-veteran Bill Hobbs helped out on their launch, so they have a good … Continue reading
Non-spoiler Lost review
Non-spoiler Lost review: As I often watch TV shows at shifted times, I know that last night’s season premiere of Lost may be sitting on your DVR (or, if you’re not at work, you can watch it on ABC.com) so … Continue reading
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