The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix Real Estate,
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RSS FeedPosted: Sunday, October 7th, 2007, 12:10 pm MST
Category: Blog Carnivals, Blogging, Marketing, Real Estate, The Odysseus Medal
Redfin’s financial underbelly, the top-bazillion-bloggers and leftovers from last week’s ActiveRain thunderstorm. These are just some of the topics addressed in this week’s Odysseus Medal competition.
Vote for the People’s Choice Award here. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.
Voting runs through to 12 Noon PDT/MST Monday. I’ll announce the winners of this week’s awards soon thereafter.
Here is this week’s short-list of Odysseus Medal nominees:
- Alex Mather — NAR, REALTOR This, REALTOR That, An Open Letter to the NAR
- Dan Green — Jobs Report, Measuring The Statistical Insignificance Of The Monthly Jobs Report (October 2007 Edition)
- Jay Thompson — WordPress 2.3, Upgrading to Wordpress 2.3
- Michael Seguin — Central v. Distributed, Central vs Distributed – a familiar cycle
- Greg Tracey — Real Estate Market, Things I Like About the Current Market
- Kris Berg — The Inman 25, The Honor is All Mine!
- Dan Melson — Foreclosure Scam, The “We’ll Keep You In Your Property” Scam
- Glenn Kelman — Redfin Financials, Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup
- Kris Berg — Birthday, Brass in Pocket
- Kevin Boer — Redfin Financials, How Come Redfin’s P&L Looks Distinctly Unlike That Of A Traditional Real Estate Brokerage? Because Redfin Is Actually A Brokerage, Not A Landlord!
- Sandy Kaduce — Redfin Financials, Dr. Kelman–Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Redfin
- Jim Watkins — Lenders, When Lenders Mess Up, Everyone Suffers!
- Jonathn Dalton — Weblog Comments, Why Do We Allow Comments?
- Lani Anlgin — Aaron Anglin, “Thank You” is not enough
- Pat Kitano — Active Rain, What Active Rain should do now
- Jillayne Schlicke — FHA Reform, FHA: A Siren Who Just Might Break Your Heart
- Brian Boero — Online Marketing, Online real estate marketing made simple
- Kris Berg — Soledad Mountain, “They made such a beautiful home.”
- Greg Perry — Buyer Turnoffs, The TOP 10 Most Offensive Buyer Turn-Offs
- Michale Wurzer — Phoenix MLS, Big News
Deadline for next week’s competition is Sunday at 12 Noon PDT/MST. You can nominate your own weblog entry or any post you admire here.
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I would like to cast an even ballot.
Start by eliminating all the odd ones. Then further eliminate from that group the odds until there is only one entry left.
Now if someone has a lot of free time, please tell me which one I voted for as I am too lazy to check myself.
Congratulations, Dan Melson! (I definitely have too much time on my hands).
Dear Beloveth Mrs. Berg:
I will be voting by the “Eenie, meenie, meinie, mo” method next time.
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