{"id":1590,"date":"2007-06-27T18:17:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T01:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2007-06-27T20:38:21","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T03:38:21","slug":"seven-days-of-the-dog-the-regal-indomitable-arrogance-of-a-healthy-normal-bloodhound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1590\/seven-days-of-the-dog-the-regal-indomitable-arrogance-of-a-healthy-normal-bloodhound\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Days of the Dog: The regal, indomitable arrogance of a healthy, normal Bloodhound"},"content":{"rendered":"

This came in as a comment last night.<\/p>\n

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be competitive and wanting to win, but, reading your posts the last few weeks, you ego is a little bit too big at times. Yes, you are a heck of a writer and you have one heck of a blog and you have assembled a heck of a team of contributors, but your ego is getting a bit cocky.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is ad hominem<\/i>, so it violates our comments policy<\/a>, but I’m not averse to discussing the issue it raises in a general way.<\/p>\n

Just not yet.<\/p>\n

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First, let’s address some general beefs I have with the world of real estate weblogging. You can regard this as an impromptu staff meeting of the RE.net, or, if you’d rather, as a Pompeii-like graffito<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Here’s one: I’m seeing more and more truncated feeds, and I am unthrilled about it. My entire purpose in using a feed reader is to aggregate everything I might want to see in one place. If I’m interested in what you have to say, I might<\/i> click through to your site, but I don’t appreciate being forced to do so. I understand that you may be trying to boost your hard clicks, possibly to placate your advertisers, or you might be trying to frustrate sploggers. I don’t care. If you don’t capture my attention completely<\/i> in the forty or fifty words you deign to show me, there is zero chance that I will click through to see if I might<\/i> be missing something good. I can’t be that different from your target reader. You got ’em to subscribe. Now deliver the goods. Hoarding — for whatever reason — is the economics of the past.<\/p>\n

(Near the subject, I had mentioned a long time ago (in a comment or somewhere) that I almost never do trackbacks. If for no other reason than that it offers automatic trackbacks and pingbacks, WordPress should be your CMS of choice for any weblogs you build (or migrate to) in the future.)<\/p>\n

Here’s another beef: This came in as a comment to Real Estate Weblogging 101<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I think you Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This came in as a comment last night. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be competitive and wanting to win, but, reading your posts the last few weeks, you ego is a little bit too big at times. Yes, you are a heck of a writer and you have one heck of a blog […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,24,6,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-weblogging-101","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11486,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11486\/the-regal-indomitable-arrogance-of-a-healthy-normal-bloodhound\/","url_meta":{"origin":1590,"position":0},"title":"The regal, indomitable arrogance of a healthy, normal Bloodhound","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"[Teri mentioned this old post (from June 2007) to me on Friday, and I'm revisiting the third act because it's pertinent to some new business I want to take up tomorrow or Monday. --GSS] \u00a0Extracted from BloodhoundBlog post #1590: This came in as a comment last night.There is nothing wrong\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Real Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5350,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5350\/introducing-renets-hottest-bloggers-contest\/","url_meta":{"origin":1590,"position":1},"title":"Introducing RE.net’s Hottest Bloggers Contest","author":"Thomas Hall","date":"October 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In an effort to increase subscriptions and ad revenue, I have devised an ingenious new contest to identify the hottest bloggers on the real estate net. 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