{"id":846,"date":"2007-01-03T22:45:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T05:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2007-01-24T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T22:06:26","slug":"give-my-umbrella-to-the-rain-dogs-the-bloodhoundblog-interview-with-rain-city-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/846\/give-my-umbrella-to-the-rain-dogs-the-bloodhoundblog-interview-with-rain-city-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Give my umbrella to the Rain Dogs: The BloodhoundBlog interview with Rain City Guide . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raincityguide.com\/2007\/01\/03\/interview-with-the-greg-swann-and-his-pack-of-bloodhounds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beat out the Dustman with the Rain Dogs<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officialtomwaits.com\/music\/m_rd_lyr.htm#Rain_Dogs\" target=\"_blank\">I am a Rain Dog, too<\/a>. A snippet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><i>Q:<\/i><\/b> What are some of your favorite blogs (real estate or otherwise)?<\/p>\n<p><b><i>A:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Greg Swann:<\/b> Totally unfair question: I have over 160 weblogs in my feed reader. From the RE.net, you can bet we like the weblog if we&#8217;ve recruited its author as a BloodhoundBlog contributor. There are people we can&#8217;t approach (such as RCG&#8217;s very talented talent pool), and some we love &#8212; such as vendors &#8212; who would compromise either us or their employers by working with us. By now, a significant part of my attention, in reading real estate weblogs, is devoted to recruitment.\n<p>Away from the RE.net, I read a lot of weblogging blogs, marketing blogs, SEO blogs, Macintosh-fanatic blogs and techno-geek blogs in general. Lately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmeme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechMeme<\/a> gets a lot of my time, simply because it links to such interesting content.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Brian Brady:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/activerain.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Active Rain Real Estate Network<\/a>. I&#8217;ve developed online friendships and a reader following there. I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freakonomics Blog<\/a> because of the off-beat hypotheses they formulate to otherwise explained problems.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Doug Quance:<\/b> BloodhoundBlog, of course&#8230; and I have many others, but I wouldn&#8217;t want to offend those who, because of brevity, wouldn&#8217;t make the list.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Dan Green:<\/b> My non-real estate blog list includes a strange mix of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsugar.com\" target=\"_blank\">PopSugar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericjohnolson.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Olson&#8217;s Observations<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabernomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sabernomics<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyblogger.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Copyblogger<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Kris Berg:<\/b> At the risk of sounding gratuitous, Rain City Guide was the first blog I encountered that really made sense to me. Since then, I have discovered many, many others that seem to strike the same, often elusive balance of having local and national appeal, of being instructional and entertaining, and of speaking to industry professionals and consumers. My first stops each morning include <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sellsiusrealestate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sellsius<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/realestatetomato.typepad.com\/the_real_estate_tomato\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Estate Tomato<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/360digest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">360 Digest<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/3oceansrealestate.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">3 Oceans<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bawldguy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bawldguy Talking<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixrealestateguy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Phoenix Real Estate Guy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcentralva.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Real Central VA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/realestateundressed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RealEstateUndressed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blueroof.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Roof<\/a>, and (of course) <a href=\"http:\/\/sandiegohomeblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The San Diego Home Blog<\/a>, to name but a few. My feed reader includes about forty blogs at the moment, which is far fewer than for a lot of bloggers I know of, but barely manageable for me. I have been slumming over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/846\/give-my-umbrella-to-the-rain-dogs-the-bloodhoundblog-interview-with-rain-city-guide\/#more-846\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beat out the Dustman with the Rain Dogs for I am a Rain Dog, too. A snippet: Q: What are some of your favorite blogs (real estate or otherwise)? A: Greg Swann: Totally unfair question: I have over 160 weblogs in my feed reader. From the RE.net, you can bet we like the weblog if [&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":[3,7,17,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-enduring-interest","8":"category-interview","9":"category-marketing","10":"category-real-estate","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":912,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/912\/from-forty-links-to-infinity-apprehending-the-full-scope-of-the-renet\/","url_meta":{"origin":846,"position":0},"title":"From forty links to infinity: Apprehending the full scope of the RE.net","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 18, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, here's the meme game I mentioned yesterday. I want to build something like a canonical list of every weblog in the RE.net. 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I'm sure it's not growing as fast as the RE.net, so I need to come up with a more streamlined way of maintaining it. Robert Melton at Pittsburgh Home\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":923,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/923\/bloodhoundblog-is-adding-another-hard-working-dog-to-the-pack\/","url_meta":{"origin":846,"position":2},"title":"BloodhoundBlog is adding another hard working dog to the pack","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we add a new contributor, Michael Cook of the Cook Squared Real Estate Enterprises weblog: Partnering with his wife, Michael Cook is a commercial real estate investor who complicates his life as an MBA student at The S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. 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RE.net readers know David as the voice of Zillow on real estate weblogs, effecting the small miracle\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Interview&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Interview","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/interview\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1158,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1158\/another-voracious-splog\/","url_meta":{"origin":846,"position":4},"title":"Another voracious splog","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The site realne.ws is stealing content wholesale from these RE.net weblogs:BloodhoundBlog Real Estate Webmaster World Housing doom Sellsius Inman News Behind The Walls Future of Real Estate Marketing Finding Senior Housing Rental survival Guide Rain City Guide Curbed San Francisco First Time Home Buyers Zillow Center For REALTOR Technology Blog\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":909,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/909\/celebrating-the-spirit-of-transparent-real-estate-weblogging-bloodhoundblog-can-and-will-do-more\/","url_meta":{"origin":846,"position":5},"title":"Celebrating the spirit of transparent real estate weblogging: BloodhoundBlog can and will do more . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm thinking that I should take a much larger role in the growth of the RE.net. 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