Pat Kitano’s TransparentRE.com weblog is a profoundly unapologetic disturber of the peace. Pat’s background is technology, rather than real estate, so he devotes his days to asking questions no one in the San Francisco real estate industry wants answered.
As with Kevin Boer, with whom he has a loose alliance of like minds, Pat’s work is highly analytical — although less reliant on graphs and charts.
In all honesty, I don’t know where TransparentRE fits into the real estate food chain. I’m inclined to think that Pat is an incipient technology vendor.
The weblogging platform is WebSite Tonight, which I believe is offered by hosting vendors such as Godaddy.com. Looks and feels like WordPress.
Technorati Tags: blogging, sellsius 101, real estate, real estate marketing
teresa boardman says:
Pat is a really cool guy. He is kind of cute too.
September 26, 2006 — 5:18 pm
jf.sellsius says:
Pat is about 40 days young at blogging & I think he will make a mark.
September 26, 2006 — 5:19 pm
Pat Kitano says:
Thanks all, and I wish I could hand you a tubful of iced beer you can soak your hands in after that exercise in keyboard mayhem Greg… bravooo!
fyi, I, along with Kevin Boer I think, will be switching over to WordPress… we really take your word as gospel Greg because you explained succinctly with great deal why you endorse WP…
My blog platform is a godaddy product called quickblog… its templates are pretty nice and easy to use, but the weird developers don’t allow bloggers to access the template tags… that’s why I can’t use feedburner feedflares among other products. I always run across bugs because the platform is a work in progress… one is urls don’t wrap text on firefox so I always need to hyperlink. Second, Technorati had to do something so their spiders could recognize my blog…
Finally, thanks Greg for the feedback about trying to figure out what’s my line… this is really helpful to me – like handing me a mirror…I will become more explicit about what I do. Among other things, I manage business development for a CA escrow company that has become the first and only in CA to procure “wholesale” title insurance underwriting… my current post about us three tech guys on our blog tries to elucidate our marketing strategy.
property monger, fantastic work… you’re on my radar…
jf, as always, many appreciations… you were the second blogger I met early on in the journey (I probably shook hands with you at RE Connect in SF before blogging was even an inkling to me), so you’re like my bloggrandfather…
And for Teresa… my “comment gift” to you! http://transparentre.com/2006/09/20/why-blogging-works.aspx#comment-124857
September 26, 2006 — 9:07 pm
Greg Swann says:
Good luck with WordPress. But me when you jump and I’ll run through my list of active plug-ins.
September 30, 2006 — 4:04 pm