The Odysseus Medal competition — The long list

by Greg Swann

Suburban Phoenix Real Estate Broker

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We had a lot of news this week, some tragic, some comical. All of it and then some is represented here. This is “the long list” — the total list of nominees that made the cut to be considered for the short list, the nominees available for voting for The People’s Choice Award.

What gets cut from this list? Posts that are too short, too stoopid, too much local or too much other people’s work. Even so, making this list of entries is an achievement, as you’ll see as you read them. There are some very serious minds out there, and it’s a delight to be able to showcase them.

For Aaron Anglin, may he rest in peace, the Ave Maria:

Ave Maria, gratia plena,
Dominus tecum,
benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui Iesus.
Sancta Maria mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen

And for all the ActiveRainers who may yet find themselves left out in the cold, here is a link to Roger Miller singing The Ballad of Waterhole #3 (The Code of the West).

With that, the long list:

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“Kelly Roark — Agent 2.0 Agent 2.0: not-so-clever play on ‘Web 2.0’ or the future of real estate marketing?“,
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“Jim Watkins — Down market? Down Sales Market? Think Outside the Box“,
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“Doug Quance — How low? Ask The Broker: How Much Below The List Price Should We Offer?“,
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“Jonathan Dalton — Princess will come Someday My Princess Will Come…“,
“Larry Cragun — Foxtons A Darling Of Discount Real Estate Rides Into The Sunset“,
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“Michael Wurzer — Standards and monopolies Good Standards Break Monopolies, Not Make Them“,
“Greg Kilwein — Wireless MLS Wireless Usage On The Rise“,
“Kevin Boer — Reaping the fruits Reaping The Fruits Of Others’ Labor? Or Adding Value To It?“,
“Jonathan Dalton — Real estate 2.0 Real Estate 2.0 and the Phoenix Real Estate Consumer“,
“Joel Burslem — ActiveRain/Move Move.com Tried to Buy ActiveRain“,
“Trevor Curran — Old is the new new Everything That Was OLD is NEW again.“,
“Teri Lussier — Huber Heights 2.0 My life online and how you too, can create a Huber Heights 2.0“,
“Kevin Boer — Foxtons/AR/Move Today’s Real Estate Gossip: Move.com Does A Microsoft; Foxtons Does A Countrywide“,
“Morgan Brown — FHA bailout A Bail Out is Still a Bail Out by Any Other Name“,
“Russell Shaw — Foxtons Foxtons Almost Gone – About to Become a Footnote in Real Estate History“,
“Brian Brady — Using AR for profit Activerain.com v. Move.com: The Duplicity at Activerain.com“,
“Brian Brady — AR wuz robbed Active Rain Wuz Robbed“,
“Brian Brady — Advertising to Ashley Advertising to Ashley“,
“Brian Brady — NAR and lending Can the NAR Improve a Buyer’s Financing Experience?”
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