Grand Ole Opry, 1946 I’m in the midst of a great meeting (really, no kidding) so I don’t have time to give this LIFE photo archive hosted by Google a proper shout-out. I’ll try to later. Very cool. Later: Staci Kramer at PaidContent.org has the details about the LIFE photos indexed by Google. Says Staci, “Time Inc. [...]

One of the greatest gifts the web has given me is the ability to have video chats with my children who are in school far-away. Indeed, for my wife, if Apple video iChat were the only application on her computer, she would still think the computer was the greatest device ever. For me, video chat [...]

Steve Rubel is my friend. Not just a digital friend who I know in a virtual online way. But a real, live friend I know in an offline, physical-world, tangible sort of way. Whenever we can, we even get together to drink Kool-Aid from the same garbage can. However, as with any friends, we sometime [...]

The NYTimes is reporting that Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company’s search software for the Apple iPhone. The new feature will be available as early as today. It works like this: You ask a question and the sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google?s servers, which [...]

In a week when people are snapping up printed media as personal mementos of an event of a lifetime (I jokingly asked on Twitter why people didn’t just print out a copy of a website), I’d like to make a prediction that you can verify in 50 or so years. The cover of the current [...]

Admittedly, I sign up for lots of web “social media” services. But I don’t sign up on far more than those I do. Sometimes I’m asked how I decide what shiny new web thing to register on. Here’s how: I have to answer “yes” to at least two of the following questions. Do I respect the judgement [...]

Cursed? Not sure this is good news, but Albert Haynesworth is on the cover of SI this week. (thanks, Sam) Over the past year or so, I’ve tried to focus posts on RexBlog more on those things related to my work and professional passions: developments at the crossroads of media, marketing and technology that relate to Hammock Inc.’s [...]

(Sorry, but for some reason, an earlier post of this got deleted. Sorry if that caused some lost comments or bad links.) Here’s how I know I’m a hopeless social media geek: The world is awash in real news about the election of a new President — true history as I wrote in posts last night. [...]

If you are a marketing-type, feel free to fill in the blanks and send this around to the folks in your “group.” Subject: What our marketing and communications team can learn from Obama’s campaign Date: [The sooner, the better] To: [Name of your group [...]

Barack Obama has just been declared the winner of the election and will be the President of the United States in January. Millions of words will be written by millions of other people that will be far more eloquent than anything I could write tonight. But I wanted to record this moment for myself and to [...]