{"id":8943,"date":"2009-06-19T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8943"},"modified":"2009-06-19T09:05:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:05:32","slug":"to-celebrate-bloodhoundblogs-third-birthday-lets-celebrate-all-of-the-insanely-great-ideas-we-have-come-up-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8943\/to-celebrate-bloodhoundblogs-third-birthday-lets-celebrate-all-of-the-insanely-great-ideas-we-have-come-up-with\/","title":{"rendered":"To celebrate BloodhoundBlog’s third birthday, let’s celebrate all of the insanely great ideas we have come up with…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I was working, late at night, plugging street addresses into encartus, in preparation for building a bunch of new engenu pages for a new web site we’re building, an exposition of truly-distinguished homes in Paradise Valley, Arizona<\/a>. While I was working, I got pinged by an incoming email, a moderated comment to Brian Brady’s first post on the idea of disclosing all real estate purchase offers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While I was reading all the other great comments to that post, I got pinged again, this time a private email asking me what I thought about the nominees for Inman’s most-innovative blog award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To misquote a line many Bloodhounds love: I don’t think about them. I will stop in at The Phoenix Real Estate Guy<\/a> once or twice a month, and I know I’ve been to MyTechOpinon<\/a> and the Clean Slate Blog<\/a>. But I don’t associate any of those sites with innovation. They’re just weblogs, that’s all.<\/p>\n

This is not sour grapes. I don’t give a rat’s ass about beauty contests, and I’ve deliberately painted Inman “News” into a corner: By consistently ignoring what is obviously the most innovative weblog in the RE.net, they come off looking like petulant crybabies even as they despoil their reputation as a “news” source. And does this malign neglect hurt us? Uniquely among RE.net weblogs, we’re a PR6, as is the Inman “News” web site. With no capital investment and nothing but part-time, amateur writers, we’ve pulled even with the life’s work of a big-baby billionaire. One would think the idea of gamesmanship was invented yesterday.<\/p>\n

And please don’t post treacly little comments about how you get good ideas everywhere. I have no objection whatever to the Special Olympics, so long as you don’t insist on calling the contestants Olympians. The three innovations cited in the first paragraph of this post, three among hundreds, are more than enough to split BloodhoundBlog away from the herd.<\/p>\n

But that’s the point. BloodhoundBlog is ten days away from being three years old. In those three years, we’ve pioneered a vast host of jaw-dropping ideas. If we stopped writing on June 29th, our anniversary, we Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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