The state of the Re Bloggosphere
I had not planned on turning this blog, cleverly disguised as a hot dog stand into a gossip column but there are as always some disturbing things going on in the re bloggosphere, which as we all know is hell.
This week I received the disturbing news the Todd Carpenter, the re blogger who is loved and respected by all who know him, has joined the dark side, which is more commonly know as Active Rain. This just weeks after the Inman connect conference where he scandalized us all by asking a panel: "what is a blog?".
Our missing bloggers did come back, but they will never be the same. They have been posting on the Sellsius real estate blog but are now talking about books, you know blog posts between two pieces of cardboard that can be read anywhere and do not require any scrolling down to see the rest. They have also introduced the idea of talking to real people face to face, instead of the normal form of communication via email, twitter, facebook, Text, IM, Skype, or blogs. I know Rudy and Joe are outside the box thinkers but outside the internet too? My feelings are strong on this. One day they will have to pry my blackberry out of my cold dead hands and for now absolutely no one can make me talk.
Then there is Drew Meyers of Zillow, whom I have always admired. Drew has been on the Zillow Realtors forum letting agents know that blogs can work, I am impressed. Zillow, helping agents, the very idea gets me all chocked up.
An update on new social networks being launched so that we can all talk about real estate would be appropriate for this post. I will mention that Propertyqube launched and I can hardly contain myself. My email box is filling up with invites from my facebook, landbrokr, ActiveRain, and linkedin contacts. Many of these contacts are on Trulia and Zillow, chatting up a storm.
Yup, it just doesn't get any better than talking about real estate 24 X 7 with my internet friends. We follow each other on Twitter, so we don't miss anything. Maybe some day a consumer will stumble (pardon the pun) across one of these sites and join us. These sites are packed with information and pictures. We Realtors are extraordinarily good looking and photogenic.
I recently learned that my adorable dog, Daisy, pictured in the sidebar, has more Google juice in some cities than local real estate bloggers do. We did some Google searches on real estate and real estate blogs and she comes up pretty high. One blogger complained about coming up 8 positions lower in her own market than my dog. Daisy now has her eye on Denver Colorado and Tucson Arizona. Go Daisy!
Then there is Jeff Turner. I met him in person a month or so ago. He is not as tall as I thought he would be but I was able to look past that. After all it is what is inside that counts. (choke) Jeff writes some amazing poetry. I won't provide a link because I am going to be in enough trouble over this as it is. He recently had writers block and started posting poems he wrote in the 80's. Jeff, 2007 just called and they want you back.
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