{"id":501,"date":"2006-10-03T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T23:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2007-04-20T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T00:03:30","slug":"zillowing-the-convergence-close-enough-is-good-enough-will-eventually-eat-every-anti-zillow-argument-except-the-ethical-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/501\/zillowing-the-convergence-close-enough-is-good-enough-will-eventually-eat-every-anti-zillow-argument-except-the-ethical-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Zillowing the convergence: ‘Close enough is good enough’ will eventually eat every anti-Zillow argument except the ethical complaint . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was young, I was convinced I was going to work in either editorial or advertising. I was a teenage photo geek, a Junior Jimmy Olson with thousands of dollars worth of professional photo gear slung over my shoulder. In college, I was publisher of the student newspaper. From the time I was very young, single digits, I was producing all sorts of printed material. And because I often didn’t have a budget, I learned how to do a lot of it by myself.<\/p>\n

The net consequence of all this is that, by the time I had to get a real job, I knew how to write, I knew how to create images — and I knew how to do many of the back-end jobs associated with producing printed words and images. I looked at my job opportunities and saw that print production paid a helluva lot better than content creation. So I went to work in Wall Street (where the very best money was found) producing 10-Ks and Blue Sky Reports and Annual Reports. I worked a boatload of IPOs, and 102 weblog posts overnight is not a very big job compared to the 100+ hours of the revision cycle on an Initial Public Offering.<\/p>\n

All of this was happening at an epoch we might name The Dawn of the Age of Connectivity. The law firms we worked for had high-end dedicated word processing systems, and they wanted to know why they couldn’t do everything “on disk” — in the dewy-eyed lingo of the day.<\/p>\n

It fell to me to do this, mostly because I was interested and no one else was. The “disk” problem was a bear, and there were dozens of kludgey “solutions” to this dilemma over the years. But, understood as a telecommunications problem, mere capture of keystrokes was not that big a problem.<\/p>\n

The big problem was expressing word-processed coding as typography — and if you are not fairly well-versed in typography, you are probably already saying, “What’s the difference?” And, indeed, the difference today is much smaller than it was when I was doing this work. Typography once Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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