{"id":266,"date":"2006-08-30T07:51:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2006-08-30T07:56:27","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:56:27","slug":"realtown-thats-not-a-feature-thats-a-cockroach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/266\/realtown-thats-not-a-feature-thats-a-cockroach\/","title":{"rendered":"RealTown: That’s not a feature — that’s a cockroach . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

If a bug is disgusting enough, you’re apt to keep grinding at it with your shoe long after it’s dead. If InternetCrusade<\/a> has six legs, then The Real Estate Tomato is wearing waffle-stompers<\/a>. Today Jim Cronin takes on IC’s recent discovery of weblogging, the coolest thing to touch their antennae since Listservs. Here’s a quote from IC’s PR piece in Realtor Magazine On-Line<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There’s no shortage of programs that make it extraordinarily simple to create and update a blog. With no more effort or time than it takes to compose an e-mail, you can have your latest blog entry on the Web. Experiment with different software programs, such as Google’s Blogger or InternetCrusade’s RealTown Blogs, both of which are free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jim has much, much more to say, but this bit is particularly funny: As nearly as I can tell, every RSS feed from RealTown is clobbered right now.<\/p>\n

Yeah, but it’s free…
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Technorati Tags: blogging<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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If a bug is disgusting enough, you’re apt to keep grinding at it with your shoe long after it’s dead. If InternetCrusade has six legs, then The Real Estate Tomato is wearing waffle-stompers. 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