That’s the short list<\/i>, not the short bus.<\/p>\n
We are among the nominees for the Inman Innovator Awards — Most Innovative Blog category<\/a>. These are the other nominees in our category:<\/p>\n Looks like somebody likes bubble blogs…<\/p>\n My own immediate reaction to our nomination is colored by three mental filters: First, I have a fundamental contempt for any sort of beauty contest. Second, I cannot stand the thought of not winning — decisively, by an incontestable margin — any competition I happen to find myself in. But third, I have no confidence that I will<\/i> win any competition where the results are based on anything other than my own performance. If it’s an objective race, I will win by force of savage will<\/a>. But I know from bitter experience not to put too much faith in subjective judges. <\/p>\n (I swear there are times that it’s like Fyodor Frolicking Dostoevsky inside my mind…)<\/p>\n Anyway, it doesn’t matter if we win. It doesn’t even matter to me if we get thrown out of the competition for insufficient obsequiousness. All that matters is that we kicked ass this first year of BloodhoundBlog — decisively, incontestably. Whatever the hell “innovation” might be in a real estate weblog, if it’s not us, it’s not worth worrying about… Technorati Tags: blogging<\/a>, Inman<\/a>, Inman Connect<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That’s the short list, not the short bus. We are among the nominees for the Inman Innovator Awards — Most Innovative Blog category. These are the other nominees in our category: Calculated Risk Mortgage Fraud Blog Patrick.net Real Estate Competition and the Law Real Estate Tomato Redfin’s Sweet Digs blogs 3 Oceans Real Estate Transparent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1907,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1907\/last-call-for-odysseus-medal-nominees\/","url_meta":{"origin":1585,"position":0},"title":"Last call for Odysseus Medal nominees","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 9, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I changed the graphic at the top of the page for the better part of last week, an homage to Kris Berg's excellent post, but I don't think anyone noticed. 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