{"id":384,"date":"2006-09-26T01:50:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T08:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2006-09-26T01:50:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T08:50:08","slug":"blogoff-post-7-weblog-review-in-the-trenches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/384\/blogoff-post-7-weblog-review-in-the-trenches\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff Post #7: Weblog Review: In the Trenches . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kevinboer.blogspot.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Boer&#8217;s In the Trenches weblog<\/a> is a serious place &#8212; notwithstanding Kevin&#8217;s creation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inklingmarkets.com\/market\/show\/2269\" target=\"_blank\">a predictive betting market for the Sellsius&#176; 101 Blogoff<\/a>. Kevin believes in math, and it shows. His weblog is awash in charts and data, and he doesn&#8217;t hesitate to create his own metrics where none are available.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t get the idea that the man can&#8217;t write. His data defends his prose &#8212; clear, concise and readable.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin uses Blogger.com as his weblogging platform. This is not the end of the world, an event that transpired well after Blogger was invented. For writing or reading, this doesn&#8217;t matter much, I suppose. But Blogger shows its age as soon as you try to comment or to search into the database of posts.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that Kevin is working with <a href=\"http:\/\/transparentre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TransparentRE<\/a> to find a better weblogging platform.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sellsius 101\" rel=\"tag\">sellsius 101<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Boer&#8217;s In the Trenches weblog is a serious place &#8212; notwithstanding Kevin&#8217;s creation of a predictive betting market for the Sellsius&#176; 101 Blogoff. Kevin believes in math, and it shows. His weblog is awash in charts and data, and he doesn&#8217;t hesitate to create his own metrics where none are available. But don&#8217;t get [&hellip;]<\/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-384","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":469,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/469\/blogoff-post-92-weblog-review-transparentre\/","url_meta":{"origin":384,"position":0},"title":"Blogoff Post #92: Weblog Review: TransparentRE . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Pat Kitano's TransparentRE.com weblog is a profoundly unapologetic disturber of the peace. 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I will stipulate the idea of weblogging to a purpose, as against ars gratia artis, but even then I can't figure out what the purpose is. I gather the sites are composed of re-syndicated content, but I don't understand\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":412,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/412\/blogoff-post-35-real-estate-weblogging-dont-be-boring\/","url_meta":{"origin":384,"position":2},"title":"Blogoff Post #35: Real estate weblogging? Don&#8217;t be boring . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Seth Godin offers 56 tips on how to get traffic for your weblog. Here is tip number fifty-five:Don't be boring.I actually dislike much of the advice Seth is giving, if only because you see those stunts so often. 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