{"id":7731,"date":"2009-04-08T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2009-04-08T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T21:38:30","slug":"the-inman-prayer-deliver-us-not-into-deliberation-and-tempt-us-not-into-leadership-for-ass-licking-for-lucre-is-the-kingdom-the-power-and-the-glory-forever-and-ever-amen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7731\/the-inman-prayer-deliver-us-not-into-deliberation-and-tempt-us-not-into-leadership-for-ass-licking-for-lucre-is-the-kingdom-the-power-and-the-glory-forever-and-ever-amen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inman Prayer: “Deliver us not into deliberation and tempt us not into leadership, for ass-licking for lucre is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever, amen…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

You just can’t make this stuff up:<\/a><\/p>\n

Inman News is launching a new feature: Real Estate Product Reviews.<\/p>\n

Would you like to be part of a team of real estate professionals that reviews and rates new real estate technologies, tools and services?<\/p>\n

We want to hear from you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll just bet you do…<\/p>\n

I loved this bit of reptilian reciprocity:<\/a><\/p>\n

Imagine if the digital\/virtual book (Vook) knew at what point you stopped reading, and then starting sending you Tweets from characters in the story up until that point, or giving you a tease of what’s coming up next. I can riff a bunch of ideas off this but my head is going to explode!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amazingly enough, this harshly critical review of vacuous vaporware comes from a vacuous vaporware vendor who has suffered equally harsh treatment from Inman “News” — call it quid pro lizard.<\/p>\n

Our whole world is out of joint by now, so much has the word “supportive” come to mean “promotional.” Drew Meyers is a sweet, sweet man, but this article is nothing but vendor-pimping<\/a>. The vendor might well deserve the accolades, but, if so, why bury the lead? The post is not about SEO nor about a well-optimized web site. It’s about the vendor who built that attestedly well-optimized site. Hiding that fact reeks, in my opinion.<\/p>\n

And it wouldn’t do to forget the best little PR3 weblog in Texas<\/a>. Agent Shortbus is not a whore, and don’t you dare say it is! It’s more like a big-hearted, big-haired, round-heeled gal who just happens to like a Prime Rib before and a Blue Agave Margarita after. What’s so bad about that?!?<\/p>\n

Diogenes might as well be Cassandra, I do understand that. But we are too much at risk of becoming entirely enmired<\/em> in bullshit, to the extent that we can’t even smell it any longer. When Inman News, the high temple of the vendorslut religion, can pretend to do product reviews — that seems like a good time to tune into Radio Cassandra.<\/p>\n

We have this thing, and maybe none but few of us have understood from the first how unusual it is for real estate professionals to live Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You just can’t make this stuff up: Inman News is launching a new feature: Real Estate Product Reviews. Would you like to be part of a team of real estate professionals that reviews and rates new real estate technologies, tools and services? We want to hear from you. 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