Fifteen nominees this week, although ten are from BloodhoundBlog contributors, writing either at BHB or at their home weblogs. I don’t know what to do about this. I don’t think I’m being biased. The one thing I could suggest is that y’all nominate more posts from a broader range of sources.<\/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 < ?PHP\n$AltEntries = array (\n\"Dan Green -- Flux capacitor\tHappy Anniversary, Flux Capacitor”, $radioGroup = “”; echo (“<\/p>\n “) Deadline for next week’s competition is Sunday at 12 Noon MST. You can nominate your own weblog entry or any post you admire here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Technorati Tags: blogging<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fifteen nominees this week, although ten are from BloodhoundBlog contributors, writing either at BHB or at their home weblogs. I don’t know what to do about this. I don’t think I’m being biased. 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\n“Kris Berg — Boomerang\tWarning: Boomerang may cause injury to others<\/a>“,
\n“Geno Petro — Big, hungry beast\tBig, Hungry Beast<\/a>“,
\n“Kris Berg — Trulia\tMake checks payable to Trulia.com<\/a>“,
\n“Jim Watkins — True equity\tTrue Equity – In the Real Estate Sense<\/a>“,
\n“Joel Burslem — Facebook\tAdvertising Your Real Estate Business on Facebook<\/a>“,
\n“Jillayne Schlicke — HR 3915\tMortgage Brokers and Loan Originators Should Support HR3915<\/a>“,
\n“Steve Leung — Reverse offer\tConsidering the Reverse Offer<\/a>“,
\n“Kevin Boer — Curbed\tCurbed.com = HomeGain Redux; Is History Repeating Itself? Will Curbed.com Start Selling Leads?<\/a>“,
\n“Sean Broderick — Rubik’s Cube\tReasons Come First<\/a>“,
\n“Brian Brady — HR 3915\tHR 3915: Open Letter to Senator Dodd from a Veteran Mortgage Originator<\/a>“,
\n“Kris Berg — SEO\tChasing My Long Tail – My Truth About SEO<\/a>“,
\n“Geno Petro — First in, last out\tFirst In, Last Out<\/a>“,
\n“Jim Duncan — Green building\tGreen building will soon be invisible<\/a>“,
\n“Kris Berg — Snowboarding\tI may see you on the way down<\/a>”
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