{"id":2111,"date":"2007-10-28T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T19:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2007-10-28T21:31:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T04:31:17","slug":"the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2111\/the-odysseus-medal-competition-voting-for-the-peoples-choice-award-is-open-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odysseus Medal competition — Voting for the People’s Choice Award is open"},"content":{"rendered":"

A dozen nominees again, which is boiling down to one entry out of five. Already you’re looking at what I view as the cream of this week’s crop.<\/p>\n

We are slaves to the news, of course. This week’s fires in Southern California dominated our attention. Congress seems desperate to do something ruinous to the mortgage industry. Microstoopid spent way too much to buy a small piece of a big fad that will be gum stuck to the bottom of a shoe three years from now. I ignored almost everything about this. Likewise for Zillow’s announcement that their ERA deal makes them Trulia player in the on-line listings game. RE\/Max has a national real estate listings portal. The Realty.bots have PR departments, at least so far. The RE.net is temporary, like all news, but I try to filter for what is actually important and not just noisome.<\/p>\n

Vote for the People’s Choice Award here<\/a>. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.<\/p>\n

Voting runs through to 12 Noon MST Monday. I’ll announce the winners of this week’s awards soon thereafter.<\/p>\n

Here is this week’s short-list of Odysseus Medal nominees:<\/p>\n

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