{"id":483,"date":"2006-09-27T23:53:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T06:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2006-09-28T01:02:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T08:02:06","slug":"digging-out-a-102-link-real-estate-weblog-post-about-real-estate-weblog-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/483\/digging-out-a-102-link-real-estate-weblog-post-about-real-estate-weblog-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging out: A 102 link real estate weblog post about real estate weblog posts . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fully expected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Luther of Rain City Guide<\/a> to file a post replete with 101 links at midnight last night. I thought it would be a nice commentary on the absurdity of what Ardell and I were doing, and a nice pastiche on his lists-of-10 posts. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/2006\/09\/26\/time-for-some-sleep\/\" target=\"_blank\">he delivered a hugely link-filled post later in the night<\/a>, most of which still sits on my nightstand, undigested.<\/p>\n<p>I finished my money-work today with nearly 1,000 unread posts and comments in my feed reader (hundreds were me and Ardell, of course) and over 400 unread emails that accumulated through the day yesterday. The emails endure, a glaring accusation, but the feed reader is clean.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s proof in 102 links:<\/p>\n<p>Ardell is back in good form, <a href=\"http:\/\/ardell.realtownblogs.com\/1st-time-homebuyer\/a-lofty-goal-transparency-with-confidentiality\/\" target=\"_blank\">rocking boats<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/2006\/09\/27\/the-day-after\/\" target=\"_blank\">rattling cages<\/a>. I think I speak for both of us when I say that there are always plenty enough words to be spoken, to be written, to be weblogged. What is evermore in short supply are ears to hear, minds to wonder, souls to take flight and soar. Welcome to Real Estate 3.0: Ethical, evangelical &#8212; all but ethereal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/360digest.com\/2006\/09\/27\/fun-with-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marlow Harris at 360 Digest<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/360digest.com\/2006\/09\/27\/fun-with-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Boer at In the Trenches<\/a> have been zeroing in on the accuracy of Zillow.com&#8217;s Zestimates. This has been <a href=\"http:\/\/kevinboer.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/zaccuracy-update.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin&#8217;s project from the beginning<\/a>, and a visit to his weblog is very instructive.<\/p>\n<p>My mind was elsewhere, so I don&#8217;t know if Marlow was in the lead with <a href=\"http:\/\/360digest.com\/2006\/09\/23\/trulia-expands-nationwide\/\" target=\"_blank\">news about Trulia&#8217;s nationwide expansion<\/a>. She&#8217;s certainly been all over the story, though, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truliablog.com\/?p=42\" target=\"_blank\">Trulia&#8217;s own weblog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ubertor.com\/?p=351\" target=\"_blank\">Ubertor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseblogger.com\/houseblogger\/2006\/09\/era_real_estate.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Estate Marketing Blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcentralva.com\/2006\/09\/25\/trulia-ups-the-ante\/\" target=\"_blank\">Real Central VA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/360digest.com\/2006\/09\/27\/fun-with-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marlow herself again<\/a>. Two days later, she followed up with news that <a href=\"http:\/\/360digest.com\/2006\/09\/25\/windermere-makes-listings-available-through-google\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windermere has gone Google<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com\/windermere-and-google-base-team-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">More from Joel on this move<\/a>. My take: Okay, but an MLS is a tool wherein I can distinguish a slate roof from a tile roof and a true swimming pool from an above-ground pool. By that standard, we do not have and may never have a national MLS.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/2006\/09\/27\/is-trulia-totally-clueless\/\" target=\"_blank\">from Galen Ward at Rain City Guide comes a discouraging word on Trulia and the virtue of moral consistency<\/a>. To give the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/483\/digging-out-a-102-link-real-estate-weblog-post-about-real-estate-weblog-posts\/#more-483\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fully expected Dustin Luther of Rain City Guide to file a post replete with 101 links at midnight last night. I thought it would be a nice commentary on the absurdity of what Ardell and I were doing, and a nice pastiche on his lists-of-10 posts. In fact, he delivered a hugely link-filled post [&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-483","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":474,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/474\/blogoff-post-97-weblog-review-ardells-seattle-area-real-estate-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":483,"position":0},"title":"Blogoff Post #97: Weblog Review: ARDELL&#8217;s Seattle Area Real Estate Blog . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Although probably more people know her from Rain City Guide, ARDELL's Seattle Area Real Estate Blog is the home weblog of my intrepid oppenent in the Sellsius\u00b0 101 Blogoff Challenge. The site runs on the Realtown blogging system, owned by InternetCrusade, which gamely manages to make Blogger.com look good. It's\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":1285,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1285\/profitable-real-estate-weblogging-burning-the-midnight-oil-to-make-family-out-of-your-farm\/","url_meta":{"origin":483,"position":1},"title":"Profitable real estate weblogging: Burning the midnight oil to make family out of your farm","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Project Blogger is officially under weigh, so I thought now would be a good time to go read the rules. I had read an earlier version and hated them, but, at a certain point, I decided it wasn't worthwhile to stand on principle. There is an extent to which this\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":370,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/370\/coming-tuesday-the-real-estate-webloggers-blogoff\/","url_meta":{"origin":483,"position":2},"title":"Coming Tuesday, the real estate webloggers blogoff . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"First, Sellsius\u00b0 gave us 50 new posts in one day. They threw down a gauntlet: Could anyone do 101 new weblog entries in a single day? Ardell DellaLoggia took up the challenge and dared me to compete against her. We agreed on Tuesday, September 26th, for the blogoff. We'll start\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":603,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/603\/ardell-dellaloggia-didn%e2%80%99t-write-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":483,"position":3},"title":"Ardell DellaLoggia didn&#8217;t write this!","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"November 5, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"She did, however, write this post on raincityguide. Nice person that she is, she also took the time to write and welcome me to the blogosphere. And after reading her post, Real Estate 101 - Improving on \"the basics\", I have several things I want (need?) to say. Observations: 1.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":378,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/378\/cry-havoc-and-let-slip-the-war-of-blogs\/","url_meta":{"origin":483,"position":4},"title":"Blogoff Post #1: Cry, &#8216;Havoc!&#8217; and let slip the war of blogs . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to the Sellsius\u00b0 101 Blogoff, a competition between Greg Swann of BloodhoundBlog and Ardell DellaLoggia of SearchingSeattleBlog, more famously of Rain City Guide. The objective is for each of us to compose 101 relevant posts over the next 24 hours. This might sound like a dumb stunt, but, in\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":192,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/192\/ardell-enamorata\/","url_meta":{"origin":483,"position":5},"title":"Ardell, enamorata . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"...how does what you're saying have anything to do with Zillow.com? Technorati Tags: blogging, disintermediation, real estate, real estate marketing","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":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}