Okay, the live version of the People’s Choice Award voting interface is on-line. My short-list isn’t all that short, alas — 18 entries total, including seven from BloodhoundBlog. I’ll do a better job of eliminating posts in the future.
The selections are shown in random order in the voting interface, this because being at the top or the bottom of a list like this is a decided advantage.
These are the posts, in no special order, except the BloodhoundBlog entries are shown last:
- Steven Groves, “Virtual Tour” takes on a whole new meaning – using Second Life as a presentation tool for a home sale
- Dan Green, Barry Bonds and Mortgage Bonds: Are They So Different?
- Jeff Brown, Is Everything Going To Hell In A Hand Basket? Will Lassie Save Timmy? And Other Questions
- Patrick Kapowich, How Can Brokers Protect Themselves From Agent Promotion?
- Kevin Boer, The Innovator’s Dilemma In Real Estate: Beware Of That Redfin Swimming Just Below You
- Josh Hohman, Overpricing and Effect on DOM
- Jonathan Dalton, What Have We Taught Our Clients?
- Jeff Kempe, Realtor’s Dilemma
- Morgan Brown, Your Credit is Crucial – It Determines Your Refinance and Home Purchase Options
- Lani Anglin, Obsession With Youth? I Think Not!
- Benn Rosales , Mortgage drama, real estate bubble, tech crash, dotcom disaster
- Teri Lussier, Connect the dots: Who’s buying, who’s selling, and what is being sold
- Brian Brady, The Mortgage Tax Act of 2007
- Jeff Kempe, In Search of Excellence
- Michael Cook, The National Association of Realtors is Simply Outrageous
- Jeff Brown, Real Estate Bloggers — Why Are You Blogging? What Currency Does Your Banker Accept?
- Kris Berg, “They are conniving and con artists” – Redfin launches Southern California Sweet Digs
- Michael Cook, Realtors, Wake Up and Start Helping Consumers
Go here to view the entries and to vote. I’ll accumulate votes until 12 Noon PDT Monday. I’ll post the winners of The Odysseus Medal, The Black Pearl and The People’s Choice Award Monday afternoon.
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Cathleen Collins says:
I just finished reading the entries and cast my first vote.
I’m not the fervent reader that Greg and probably most of those who post on BHB are. I love to read, but I treat it like dessert… I get it as a reward after I’ve finished everything else; and like dessert (I’m usually too full at the end of dinner to enjoy any), I keep finding my day too full to get around to sitting at my computer to read.
So… I used to use the CoRE to catch up on what I hoped would be the week’s best on the subject of Real Estate by real estate professionals.
But… I kept finding myself disappointed in the quality and usually quantity of what was being presented by the CoRE judges. Reading it was like going to watch my niece’s dance recitals — it didn’t elevate nor inspire like Balanchine’s Romeo and Juliet, but it was something I was supposed to do. Eventually my niece got old enough that she danced for her own pleasure and didn’t care whether or not I came to watch, so I was able to use my time more fruitfully. And after awhile I stopped bothering with CoRE so I could use my time more fruitfully as well.
The articles submitted this week for the Odysseus Medal are far superior to what’s thrown out to the audiences “in random and no particular order” at most of the weekly Carnivals of Real Estate that I’ve bothered to start to read during the past several months. For the most selfish of reasons — trying to better use my time — I look forward to a long and healthy future for the weekly Odysseus Medal with its Black Pearl and People’s Choice awards.
August 12, 2007 — 4:32 pm
Jay Thompson says:
Having a feed reader list that rivals War and Peace in length, I’d read most of these posts (though not all).
*Really* good stuff here! Difficult to only chose one.
August 12, 2007 — 6:04 pm
Erik Hersman says:
Hey Greg,
I kept looking for one of your excellent posts in the Carnival of Real Estate submissions this last week. Are you no longer submitting to them due to the start of this new “People’s Choice Awards”?
August 13, 2007 — 1:04 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Are you no longer submitting to them due to the start of this new “People’s Choice Awards”?
That’s correct. I wrote about this last week.
You did a nice job with the Carnival this week. My hat is off to you.
August 13, 2007 — 1:12 pm