{"id":1487,"date":"2008-06-28T23:14:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T06:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2008-06-28T23:13:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T06:13:33","slug":"dancing-on-bridges-understanding-great-real-estate-webloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1487\/dancing-on-bridges-understanding-great-real-estate-webloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing on bridges: Apprehending great real estate webloggers…"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Okay, BloodhoundBlog will be two years old in less than an hour. Here’s one more little bit of our past in celebration. This is from May 31st, 2007. –GSS]<\/em><\/p>\n

Question #1:<\/i> Why did Microsoft call its new table-top touch-screen interface<\/a> “Surface”?<\/p>\n

Answer:<\/i> “It” and “Thing” are trademarks of The Addams Family<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Question #2:<\/i> What makes a great real estate weblog?<\/p>\n

Answer:<\/i> Whatever you do, don’t ask Inman Blog<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t write about everything that tickles or rankles me. I couldn’t, even if I didn’t have other things to do. But I thought it was particularly ironical for Joel Burslem and Jessica Swesey to talk about weblogging in a video<\/a>. Joel has proven blogger credibility. Jessica is a good reporter who has never impressed me as actually understanding weblogging as a distinct medium. I have told Brad Inman in private that he doesn’t “get” weblogging, to which criticism he issued testy but irrelevant rejoinders. If putting marks on phosphors in reverse-chronological order is weblogging, then there really are<\/i> 70 million webloggers.<\/p>\n

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But take a look at this<\/a>, as an example (and I’m picking on Inman because they’re professionals and, I hope, thick-skinned enough to bear up to the scrutiny):<\/p>\n

In the middle of the 16th Century, the Great Chinese Wall was built to keep enemy armies out and to create a perception of invincibility. Gated communities were built in the US suburbs in the 1980s to keep urban criminals out and to create prestigious residential compounds. The building of walls and fences along the Mexican border are being built to keep workers and terrorists out and to appease a multitude of American nationalistic fears. The Great Chinese Wall did not work; gates in the burbs were irrelevant to safety and fences on the Mexican border will not stop people from risking their lives to find work. One of the ugliest walls in history was the Berlin Wall, which came down when freedom persevered over human repression.
\nWalls and fences are an admission of our failure to solve problems in a civil way. They divide people; they exclude; they fracture societies and communities.
\nIn the 1950s in my small hometown of Carlinville, Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Okay, BloodhoundBlog will be two years old in less than an hour. Here’s one more little bit of our past in celebration. This is from May 31st, 2007. –GSS] Question #1: Why did Microsoft call its new table-top touch-screen interface “Surface”? Answer: “It” and “Thing” are trademarks of The Addams Family. 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