Though always searching for cool real estate blogs, once you’ve been looking for awhile the nuggets are discovered much less often. Happily I ran into one I’m sure many of you already know about. For those of you on the late bus along with me, I recommend you click over to Sacramento Real Estate Blog. John Lockwood at times shows how to take transparency to new levels.
His post promoting his newsletter is inspired. I Take It All Back speaks for itself. His transparency in the post reviewing the past year was a story I’ve seen repeated over and over. Yet, John lets us inside his head as he roams back and forth, struggling to discover just what he really wants to do.
John is smarter than the average bear, and funnier than the average blogger. Take a look, you won’t regret it. The guy is worth your time, I promise. He’s also faster than I am. Imagine my surprise to find a post, in part about a simple comment I made on his site yesterday.
Seriously, take a look at this guy.
John Lockwood says:
Wow, you’re like SO my only friend now!
There’s like a bazillion links in that post — and here I thought the best I could do in a country club like this would be maybe bellhop or something.
And don’t worry about catching up to me late, no one’s heard of me. In fact, I think Dustin Luther is selling shirts that say “I’m De Regueurier Than You Are”.
I’m just enjoying my seat on the back of the I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-blogosphere bus along with Gary Woods, my spiritual guide.
Cheers, Jeff, and thanks again for your kind words, links, and friendship.
January 7, 2007 — 4:01 pm
Jeff Brown says:
I thought you should be found much more often. Always good to make another friend.
January 7, 2007 — 4:08 pm
Dustin says:
John,
I can promise that there have been no shirts with your name… and no emails, links, or posts describing your petty behavior… I wouldn’t want to give you any additional publicity! 🙂
I would have happily ignored John’s behavior, but since he brought it up, I might as well explain why my name is mentioned in his comments…
Last night he wrote a post (since removed, but you can see the trackback here and here) making fun of me because shock-of-shocks I said back in October of 2005 that I liked Trulia’s interface and predicted that there were going to be more consumer-friendly search tools developed in the near future because the current “industry” offerings were inadequate!
I’ll happily admit that I was pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable to say on an “industry” blog at the time, but it is nothing compared to the reality check that Greg regularly sends our way nowadays, so I’m surprised John is still hurt by this information a year and half later, but apparently, he is still hurt enough to even remember.
Also note this is the second time John has said some unfavorable things about me and then deleted the post within a day. I’m starting to think this is his particularly mean way of linkbating, which is a game I choose no play with him. Again, petty stuff all around and I wish I wasn’t involved.
January 7, 2007 — 4:31 pm
Doug Quance says:
>Also note this is the second time John has said some unfavorable things about me and then deleted the post within a day.
Comments seem to disappear just as quickly…
January 8, 2007 — 8:05 am
Greg Swann says:
> Comments seem to disappear just as quickly…
The contretemps escalated quickly and was abruptly ended. As a matter of policy, I am leaning very hard on flaming/flame-baiting in comments right now. We tried to work things out privately, with no success.
January 8, 2007 — 8:25 am