{"id":523,"date":"2006-10-08T22:36:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T05:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=523"},"modified":"2006-10-11T06:32:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T13:32:57","slug":"carnival-of-real-estate-overture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/523\/carnival-of-real-estate-overture\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival of Real Estate — Overture . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re finished judging the entrants for the Carnival of Real Estate. I’m going to roll things out in four posts over four days. I have three reasons for doing this.<\/p>\n

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  1. I want to draw your particular attention to the posts that were particularly good, and I want for the entrants in the second tier — good but not quite great — to have their own day in the sun.<\/li>\n
  2. I want to address in the first and last posts some issues that I think will make the Carnival of Real Estate better and more relevant going forward.<\/li>\n
  3. I was accused today of having organized my own weblog posts in a logical sequence, an organizational feat I have never yet achieved.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    My post tomorrow will highlight one entry of unsurpassed excellence and six more of surpassing quality. Tuesday morning, we will exhibit a dozen more entries that were very, very good. By Wednesday, I want to talk seriously about laying down some rules for this contest.<\/p>\n

    Here’s why: We had a total of 43 unique entries. Out of that number, 24 did not make the cut. We had multiple entries from the same weblog, in some cases from the same person. One entry consisted almost entirely of plagiarized text. Another offered advice on how to use constructive mortgage fraud to deceive new-home builders. Many, many, many entries were too short to warrant any sort of consideration. There is nothing at all wrong with writing a very short weblog post — I do it all the time. But a short riff on an undeveloped idea is not a contest entry, it’s a painful reminder to revisit the topic later — conclusively, in greater detail, in fuller mind.<\/p>\n

    I know the practice until lately has been to make note of every entry, but the number of entries is growing week-by-week, and I don’t think it is any favor to conflate serious attempts to push back the darkness with phoning-it-in cat-blog posts. It’s certainly a disservice to the people striving to do the most and best they can with their weblogs, and it strikes me as being unjust, also, to the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We’re finished judging the entrants for the Carnival of Real Estate. I’m going to roll things out in four posts over four days. I have three reasons for doing this. I want to draw your particular attention to the posts that were particularly good, and I want for the entrants in the second tier — […]<\/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":[3,15,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-carnival-of-real-estate","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":984,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/984\/pump-up-the-carnivolume-renet-blog-carnivals-proliferate\/","url_meta":{"origin":523,"position":0},"title":"Pump up the Carnivolume: RE.net blog carnivals proliferate","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 2, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"There was big news in last week's Carnival of Real Estate, but we were delicate enough not to take notice. 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