{"id":984,"date":"2007-02-02T17:38:48","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T00:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2007-02-02T17:44:22","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T00:44:22","slug":"pump-up-the-carnivolume-renet-blog-carnivals-proliferate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/984\/pump-up-the-carnivolume-renet-blog-carnivals-proliferate\/","title":{"rendered":"Pump up the Carnivolume: RE.net blog carnivals proliferate"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was big news in last week’s Carnival of Real Estate<\/a>, but we were delicate enough not to take notice.<\/p>\n

A kinder, gentler BloodhoundBlog? Don’t hold your breath.<\/p>\n

There is other RE.net blog carnival news, though:<\/p>\n

We know about the Carnival of Real Estate Investing<\/a>, of course, which was started by Real Estate Investing for Real<\/a>. (BloodhoundBlog will be hosting this blog carnival on February 19th.)<\/p>\n

Now comes news of the Consumer Focused Real Estate Blog Carnival<\/a>, founded by Sadie’s Take on Delaware, Ohio<\/a>. The idea is to reward locally-focused weblog posts.<\/p>\n

From the other direction, David Gibbons of Zillow.com<\/a> phoned this afternoon to talk about an idea he has proposed for the Carnival of Real Estate<\/a>. The idea is to make a five- or ten-minute podcast with each week’s CoRE host, discussing the judging process, the decisive qualities of that week’s winning choice, and, also, offering the host a moment to discuss his or her local real estate market.<\/p>\n

I like this idea, although I can never talk about anything for ten minutes. Our phone call to talk about a ten-minute podcast ran for 32 minutes. But I do like the thought that there will be some oversight over the hosts, if only to prevent — or at least draw ignominy to — the kind of news we delicately ignored this week.<\/p>\n

I am also concerned about this proliferation of RE.net blog carnivals. I understand the impetus to create niche carnivals, but each new addition tends to dilute the impact of the others. I like the Carnival of Real Estate being “The Oscars,” as it were, of real estate weblogging carnivals. An idea I suggested to David is to split out CoRE awards by category: Best Investing Post, Best Local-Interest Post, Best Feature Post, Best News\/Commentary Post, with one overall Best Post picked from among all the entries.<\/p>\n

Another idea I have been toying with is to create a weekly Odysseus Medal to be awarded to what I<\/i> think is the best RE.net weblog post of the week. Why me? Because I had the idea. Because I’m a presumptuous-enough insufferable bastard to trumpet my own opinions with a Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was big news in last week’s Carnival of Real Estate, but we were delicate enough not to take notice. A kinder, gentler BloodhoundBlog? Don’t hold your breath. There is other RE.net blog carnival news, though: We know about the Carnival of Real Estate Investing, of course, which was started by Real Estate Investing for […]<\/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":[21,3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blog-carnivals","7":"category-blogging","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":606,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/606\/the-carnival-of-real-estate-13\/","url_meta":{"origin":984,"position":0},"title":"The Carnival of Real Estate . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 6, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"...is up at Landlord Shmanlord. 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