{"id":933,"date":"2007-01-23T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T21:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2007-01-24T00:59:51","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T07:59:51","slug":"addressing-what-matters-about-mortgage-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/933\/addressing-what-matters-about-mortgage-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Addressing what matters about Mortgage Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a certain affection for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankrate.com\/brm\/news\/mortgages\/mortgage_update.asp\" target=\"_blank\">the Mortgage Matters weblog by Holden Lewis at Bankrate.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s a little bit enbubbulated, but that&#8217;s to be expected from what is, in fact, a mainstream media outlet. That notwithstanding, the site is very informative, and a lot of fun to read. I get the impression that Lewis doesn&#8217;t like BloodoundBlog all that much, but that&#8217;s okay: The link-love he sends our way is abundant and unconditional.<\/p>\n<p>Because I like it, and because I have no idea how to send an email to Lewis, here are some things I would like to see changed about the site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I think Bankrate.com should invest in <a href=\"http:\/\/mu.wordpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Multi-User<\/a>. They have multiple weblogs already, and, without doubt, they will be adding more. It&#8217;s time to jump to a real weblogging platform.<\/li>\n<li>Once that move is made, Lewis should start working in contemporary weblogging style, one topic to a post, each one permanently linkable. For now, he is writing in journal-like entries, multiple topics in, at most, one post per day. This harkens back to the posting style of Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s old Blogger.com weblog, but he didn&#8217;t know what he was doing. <a href=\"http:\/\/time.blogs.com\/daily_dish\/\" target=\"_blank\">He has since learned better<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Each of the Bankrate.cm weblogs should have its own RSS feed &#8212; easily done with WP MU. Right now, there is one feed for all of Bankrate.com, news, blogs, the works.<\/li>\n<li>Enable comments. I don&#8217;t agree with the notion that a weblog is not a weblog without comments, but, certainly, conversation builds community. Enable trackbacks and pingbacks, too.<\/li>\n<li>Provide a way to email Lewis. Right now, you can use a little contact box that will email Lewis (or possibly anyone) provided you <i>already<\/i> know what email address to use. I love things that are this perfectly broken, but, even so: It&#8217;s broken.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Switching platforms now will be a hardship, surely, but switching platforms later will be worse. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankrate.com\/brm\/news\/mortgages\/mortgage_update.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Mortgage Matters<\/a> is a good weblog. It deserves more exposure.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a certain affection for the Mortgage Matters weblog by Holden Lewis at Bankrate.com. It&#8217;s a little bit enbubbulated, but that&#8217;s to be expected from what is, in fact, a mainstream media outlet. That notwithstanding, the site is very informative, and a lot of fun to read. I get the impression that Lewis doesn&#8217;t [&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":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1650,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1650\/bankratecom-encourages-stupid-mortgage-banker-tricks\/","url_meta":{"origin":933,"position":0},"title":"Bankrate.com Encourages Stupid Mortgage Banker Tricks","author":"Brian Brady","date":"July 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a sampling of mortgage offerings on Bankrate.com. 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