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, January 20th, 2008, 12:14 pm MST
Category: Blog Carnivals, Blogging, Marketing, Real Estate, The Odysseus Medal
There are 15 entries on the short list this week, out of a long list of 82 posts. Vote for the People’s Choice Award here. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.
Ahem: Please don’t spam all your friends to come and vote for you. First, what we’re interested in is what is popular among people who would have been voting anyway. And second, I’ll eliminate you for cheating. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Voting runs through to 12 Noon 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:
- Stan Humphries — Zestimation, What’s in a Number?
- Brian Brady — Fishwrap Classifieds, The Future of the Fishwrap Classifieds
- Greg Tracy — Realtors are too Damn Old, Realtors are Just too Damn Old
- Michael Wurzer — Seeking Clarity, Seeking Clarity in Real Estate Data Standards
- Chris Johnson — Economics of Wholesale Lending, Some Economics of Wholesale Lending: Yet another Reason Why it’s a dead man walking.
- Jim Cronin — Readers or Search Engines?, Dichotomy of the Real Estate Blog - Do You Please the Readers or Search Engines?
- Gary Elwood — Writing, Why Writing Is the Most Important Thing You Can Learn
- Trevor Smith — Different Kind of Buyer, Theology, Postmodernism, and a Different Kind of Buyer
- Connie Brzowski — Mortgage Crisis, The Mortgage Crisis Has a Silver Lining (and other truths you won’t hear on cable news this week)
- Eric Blackwell — Network Solutions, Network Solutions — I-CANN too hold your domain ideas hostage!
- Dan Green — Herd Mentality, How Herd Mentality Determines The Direction Of Mortgage Rates
- Drew Meyers — Neighborhood Boundary Files, 7000+ Neighborhood Boundary Files in Shapefile Format
- Morgan Brown — A Fool’s Rally, We’re looking at a fool’s rally - plain and simple.
- Kris Berg — Technology Hangover, Technology Hangover - I’m a little fuzzy.
- Doug Quance — School Of Hard Knocks, Tuition Is Expensive At The School Of Hard Knocks
Deadline for next week’s competition is Sunday at 12 Noon MST. You can nominate your own weblog entry or any post you admire here.
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Dan Green’s video?
http://www.themortgagereports.com/2008/01/mortgage-video.html
> Dan Green’s video?
Sorry. Video or audio would really have to rock to compete with prose. Wasn’t nominated in any case.
Old School vs New School…
While I perusing through my Google reader today, I came upon the Odysseus Medal competition from Bloodhound Blog. I usually don’t pay attention to these (Not sure why, maybe I will start) but one entry really stood out to me. One reason, it was a re…
Brian: No video is going to get my vote no matter how good it is unless it has captioning.
The way I see it, real estate agents are service providers and with video blogs and stuff, they are making their sites and the information they present inaccessible to people like me with disabilities.
In fact, I stopped viewing Bloodhound for a few weeks when Unchained first took off.
Point well taken, Derek. I have been looking for some easy-to-use dubbing software and think I will apply Overstream (http://www.overstream.net/) to the video.
I won’t transcribe it word-for-word (because I ad-libbed all of it), but I can highlight the key points.
Thanks for the alert.