I have news, but some of it is getting a little stale. My apologies. I have been buried, not that this is unusual.<\/p>\n
As Kris Berg reports in her inimitable way<\/a>, Redfin has relaunched, rebranded and all but reinvented itself<\/a>, establishing a beachhead in Boston in the process<\/a>. As far as I can tell, the big news is the company’s new logo, which features an image of Eve acting on the bad advice of a snake. Every picture tells a story, don’t it?<\/a><\/p>\n Sellsius has also launched its product offering<\/a>, a kind of searchable, semi-permanent, for-pay Craigslist<\/a>. This looks to me like a Red Ocean<\/a>, but what do I know?<\/p>\n That much has been reported elsewhere. This hasn’t: Territory Real Estate has launched its flat-fee buyer-brokerage in Boston and greater Massachusetts<\/a>. Proving the appeal if not the merit of the Red Ocean strategy (first explained to me by Zillow.com’s David Gibbons<\/a>), Territory immediately goes on the attack — against Redfin<\/a>.<\/p>\n But: Screw all that. There are matters of greater moment.<\/p>\n For instance, is weblogging headed for an icy, entropic death?<\/a> TransparentRE says not<\/a>, at least not for real estate weblogs. This much is obvious: Weblogging is a fad, like CB radio in the seventies. Anyone who didn’t expect it to fall off dramatically was self-deluded. But there are two important differences between weblogging and the ordinary Rubik’s Cube<\/a> style of fad: First, viral blogging is a new communications medium, the backbone of the alternative media. And second, owners of commercially-motivated weblogs have an enduring interest in persistence beyond fad appeal. The number of weblogs doesn’t really matter, nor does the number of putatively “active” weblogs. Sites that draw a decent number of evanescent eyes from search traffic may generate income for their owners. But, in the long run, the only weblogs that matter are the ones that can attract a stable population of repeat visitors<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two more and I’m out of time: A WordPress Theme Generator<\/a>, so you can express yourself with unborrowed tastes. And the irrepressible, irreplaceable Dave Smith with a strategy to suss the Google Sandbox with a Trustbox instead<\/a>.<\/p>\n To close, here’s a quote for <\/a>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have news, but some of it is getting a little stale. My apologies. I have been buried, not that this is unusual. As Kris Berg reports in her inimitable way, Redfin has relaunched, rebranded and all but reinvented itself, establishing a beachhead in Boston in the process. 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