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The Short List goes to the dogs: Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open

By the time I had time to deal with The Odysseus Medal last week, it was pretty late in the week. The week had been pretty light on nominations, and we were heading into Easter, so I made a command decision to combine these two weeks into one award.

Then today, when I went to look at The Long List, I found a whole lot of Bloodhounds in there. There were a total of 70 unique posts from 17 of our current contributors. Just short of 40% of all of the nominated posts were written by Bloodhounds.

You can say what you want about this weblog. It seems to be some sort of badge of dishonor to make snarky remarks about BloodhoundBlog or its contributors. About this I have one thought only — predictably a marketing issue: If your clients observe you talking trash about us behind our backs, might they not reasonably conclude that you are also spewing bile about them behind their backs? Everything you do establishes your character in the eyes of your clients — now more than ever before. That’s a Black Pearl — and the more you want to reject it, the more valuable it is.

In any case, I don’t give a rat’s ass what anyone says, but I care a great deal about what people can demonstrate. The quality of work our contributors do, here and at their home blogs, is a potent demonstration of its own — a demonstration of the quality of minds who work here, and, I think, of the quality of thought we inspire in each other.

In consequence, this week’s People’s Choice is given over to BloodhoundBlog contributors, to one post from each of them who made this week’s Long List.

We end with with a total of 17 People’s Choice nominees. You can 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 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:

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“Barry Cunningham — Would You Hire Yourself? Would You Hire Yourself?”,
“Brian Brady — Wheres Ashley Dupree MySpace?
Where’s Ashley Dupree’s MySpace? With A Few Lessons From Martha Stewart, Ashley Alexandra Dupree Could Have Been America’s Sweetheart“,
“Cheryl Johnson — Using Irfanview For A Batch Resize Using Irfanview For A Batch Resize“,
“Dan Green — Now Is A Good Time To Buy Stop Asking Your Real Estate Agent If Now Is A Good Time To Buy“,
“Dave Phillips — Rate Your REALTOR Rate Your REALTOR – Why Are Agents Scared Anyway?“,
“Doug Quance — Appraisers – The Latest Target Appraisers – The Latest Target In The Circular Firing Squad“,
“Eric Blackwell — An Open Letter to Agent X An Open Letter to Agent X“,
“Eric Bramlett — Web 2.0 Is a Fad? Web 2.0 Is a Fad?“,
“Geno Petro — As if the Dollar isn’t already tanking As if the Dollar isn’t already tanking…“,
“James Hsu — When the little things matter most When the little things matter most“,
“Jeff Brown — Paradigm Shift? Not Quite Yet Paradigm Shift? Not Quite Yet“,
“Jeff Kempe — Bubble Bloggers Bubble Bloggers, Naysayer and Animal Rights Nuts“,
“Mike Farmer — Sunday Morning Tribute To Bloodhound Sunday Morning Tribute To Bloodhound“,
“Richard Riccelli — Predictably Irrational Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions“,
“Russell Shaw — NAR and the Use of MLS in a URL NAR and the Use of MLS in a URL“,
“Sean Purcell — Every Day a Birthday Every Day a Birthday“,
“Teri Lussier — All things are ready if our minds be so All things are ready if our minds be so: Author 21 doesn’t hold her manhood cheap, and goes once more unto the breach“,
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    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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