Dreamland’s Rhonda Gets the Conversation Started

Rhonda represents the marketing manager who frequently attends conferences or workshops about various forms of online media. Related posts:Will Ferrell testing big screen ideas on the tiny screen Rim shot Actual office conversation | Continue reading


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Larry Page Thinks the Time Has Come for Flying Cars (Don’t we All?)

I do believe there will be a place for flying cars, but they will be nothing like in the Jetsons. Related posts:Flying cars and next year The flying car I don’t expect to see anytime soon (but I keep hoping) Top 10 Stories About Flying Cars | Continue reading


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Not So Smart

Donald Trump can say anything and won't lose voters. To win in November, however, he must appeal to new voters.Related posts:@AmazonMP3s very smart use of Twitter during Superbowl XLVI Scott Adams on Why Trump Will Win in a Landslide Why smart people don’t give a rip about what t … | Continue reading


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Happy Bike to Work Day, Nashville | 2016

As the 12 regular readers of this blog know, I try to commute to work by bicycle 2-3 times a week. I do it for recreation, transportation and enjoyment. Obviously, there is some health-related benefits from riding a bike 15 miles round-trip, but I don’t use the “exercise” word wh … | Continue reading


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Via Vox: How Some of the Greatest Rappers Make Rhymes

If you want to learn something new (and impressive) today, I recommend this:Related posts:That’s C and it rhymes with B and that stands for… 100 Greatest Films The greatest Christmas movie ever | Continue reading


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Why Conventional Wisdom Is the Enemy of Marketing Innovation

By the time innovative, creative and insightful marketing trends become conventional marketing wisdom, they are no longer innovative, creative or insightful.Related posts:Ironic conventional wisdom developing about Freakanomics’ success Focus on Content Marketing Mission, Not Met … | Continue reading


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Yield to The Optical Illusion Planks Painted on The Street

Zebra crossings—the striped crosswalks common on roads around the world—don't necessarily work very well.Related posts:Google Maps “Street View” rolls through Nashville, let the fun begin Blake on the street Apple street people | Continue reading


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Slowly, but Surely, Rollng Towards a Bike-Friendlier Nashville

My passions these days include doing what I can to make Nashville a city for people who walk and people who ride bicyclesRelated posts:Bike to Work Day is Friday. Here’s the route I take 2-3 times a week to Downtown Nashville Slowly but surely Bike rides take you places you never … | Continue reading


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Stuff I Learn Only From The BBC World Service

The BBC is a great example of a vast media empire that uses its resources to add context -- history programming, for example -- into the current flow of news.Related posts:One era’s Wayne’s World is another generation’s… The future of magazines should look like magazines Where to … | Continue reading


@rexblog.com | 8 years ago

Why Podcasting Is, Once Again, The Next Big Thing

Some of you may find this week’s Hammock Idea Email interesting. At the insistence of some pesky editors, I left out lots of the 10,000+ words I once wrote about podcasting. Also, as we like to keep these emails to 300 words, those editors suggested that my discussion of the diff … | Continue reading


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Out With Inbox

I discovered the feature I use most on Inbox is a link to Gmail.Related posts:The Google reader makes me feel illiterate (or, Why can’t Rex read?) Twitter joins the email address as universal-identifier club Google vs. Microsoft vs. Intuit vs. Yahoo! for small businesses update | Continue reading


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Fences, Walls & The Boy in Striped Pajamas

He’s making the country great again.Related posts:The new $5.95 Trump magazine is for readers who don’t have to ask how much it costs Gored Hey, What About All Those Trump Magazines That Failed? | Continue reading


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Scott Adams on Why Trump Will Win in a Landslide

If facts don’t matter, you can’t really be wrong. The Washington Post interviews Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams on why he started predicting last year that Trump would be elected president — back when the rest of us were saying, no way. (I still say, no way.) Here are Adam’s reas … | Continue reading


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Civil Wars Are Not Civil | Links & Comments | 3.7.2016

There is often some bizarre connection to adjacent items in my RSS news reader or Twitter stream. The following three stories all appeared about the same time in my RSS feed. They seem related. But none reference the other, so I guess they are just coincidence. However, as any Ne … | Continue reading


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Links & Comments | 3.6.2016

Things I ran across on 3.6.2016.No related posts. | Continue reading


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How to Move to Canada

The chart below is the past week’s Google trend graph for U.S. Google users searching the phrase, “how to move to canada”? The turning point is three days ago, Super Tuesday (3.2.2016), the day people who were still skeptical of the chances of Donald Trump winning the GOP preside … | Continue reading


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Hey, What About All Those Trump Magazines That Failed?

I was starting to believe the magazine industry was being ripped off. Until the past weekend, I hadn’t seen any Trump branded magazines among the many lists of Trump failures appearing. I recalled some as I blogged about them nine years ago. Even better, my friend Dylan Stablefor … | Continue reading


@rexblog.com | 8 years ago

Why Donald Trump Fans Think He’s For Real

Two years ago, in an issue of the Hammock Idea Email, I wrote about research into why people aren’t convinced when presented with irrefutable evidence that something they believe in, is false. As Donald Trump’s supporters are exhibiting such a pattern — even he admitted it with t … | Continue reading


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