{"id":990,"date":"2007-02-04T21:32:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T04:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2007-02-04T21:30:08","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T04:30:08","slug":"bloodhoundblog-week-in-review-nothing-exceeds-like-intx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/990\/bloodhoundblog-week-in-review-nothing-exceeds-like-intx\/","title":{"rendered":"BloodhoundBlog week in review: Nothing exceeds like INTx . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Surely BloodhoundBlog<\/a> is not the nerdliest joint on the RE.net, but we’ve still got a lot of arrows in our quiver — er, pocket protector.<\/p>\n

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For a start, I pinned the tail on Redfin<\/a>, arguing that nerdy INTx geeks are in fact their target market. (Sing along: “I’m fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon.”) Kris Berg<\/a> snagged an interview with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, himself a palpably INTx specimen. We have to sit on her podcast until Thursday, but Kelman’s confirmation that the brokerage target markets techno-geeks is not an embargoed tidbit.<\/p>\n

Kris had a great Redfin post of her own<\/a> as did husband Steve Berg at The San Diego Home Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And: I did geek-seeking missile duty by awarding the first Cheez Whiz Prize<\/a> to a dead-pool destined circle jerk called my-currency.com<\/a>. What did the starving mathematicians say when they stumbled onto a can of beans? “First we will postulate a can-opener…”<\/p>\n

But just to establish my own hopeless geek bona fides<\/i>, this week I became the first hopeless geek to write a song about real estate weblogging.<\/a> “Cathy’s Clown” indeed!<\/p>\n

But, Dave, I’m just a wave. I ain’t the water. So here’s what else has been going on in the BloodhoundBlog pond:<\/p>\n

Investor Michael Cook<\/a> took us along on his trip to Greensboro, NC, advising us that Time Really is Money<\/a> and asking What makes a good investment?<\/a> He follows up by naming some Watchouts for New Market Investing<\/a> and then invites us to consider Bank Relationships vs. Mortgage Brokers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In Googling for Pizza<\/a> Kris Berg takes us on a very straightforward roundabout route through the SEO benefits of real estate weblogging.<\/p>\n

Also on the theme of weblogging, Jeff Brown<\/a> argues against the practice of allowing anonymous comments in It’s Time To Take The Lead — Let’s Turn The Lights On Now<\/a>. Anonymous commenters are still permitted at BloodhoundBlog, but we’ve had to put everyone on a very short leash to avoid flaming, obscenity, etc. It’s common for people to argue that policing comments is “censorship.” This is incorrect. Censorship is something that is done by governments. The issue here is the right of private property Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surely BloodhoundBlog is not the nerdliest joint on the RE.net, but we’ve still got a lot of arrows in our quiver — er, pocket protector. For a start, I pinned the tail on Redfin, arguing that nerdy INTx geeks are in fact their target market. (Sing along: “I’m fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon.”) […]<\/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":[3,4,8,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-disintermediation","8":"category-investment","9":"category-marketing","10":"category-real-estate","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":974,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/974\/redfin-and-the-antics-of-the-intx-crowd\/","url_meta":{"origin":990,"position":0},"title":"Redfin and the antics of the INTx crowd . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"By my lights, one of the most interesting bits of news to come out of Inman Connect was Redfin's announcement that they plan to swim into Boston Harbor. 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