We have 18 entries on the short list this week, out of a long list of 74 posts.
Vote for the People’s Choice Award here. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy.
Ahem: Please don’t spam all your friends to come and vote for you. First, what we’re interested in is what is popular among people who would have been voting anyway. And second, I’ll eliminate you for cheating. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Voting runs through to 12 Noon MST Monday. I’ll announce the winners of this week’s awards soon thereafter.
Here is this week’s short-list of Odysseus Medal nominees:
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“Brian Boero — Partial vision Partial vision“,
“Brian Brady — Are You Blogging For Speed? Are You Blogging For Speed?“,
“Dan Green — Ignoring Adjectives How Ignoring Adjectives Can Improve Your Understanding Of Mortgages“,
“Dan Green — Mortgage Rates Why Mortgage Rates Don’t Look Like They’re Coming Back Down Any Time Soon“,
“Geno Petro — She tried to make me buy a rehab She tried to make me buy a rehab…“,
“Harvey Edgecombe — Barack Obama versus the US Economy Barack Obama versus the US Economy“,
“Jay Thompson — Dale Stinton Stops By NARWisdom.com NAR CEO Dale Stinton Stops By NARWisdom.com“,
“Kris Berg — A lesson in push(y) marketing. A lesson in push(y) marketing.“,
“Kris Berg — In sickness or in health In sickness or in health – It’s viral.“,
“Mike Farmer — Due Diligence and Real Estate Due Diligence and Real Estate“,
“Mike Farmer — The Religion (Tyranny) of Niceness The Religion (Tyranny) of Niceness“,
“Mike Price — Armchair Quarterbacking Real Estate 2.0 Armchair Quarterbacking Real Estate 2.0“,
“Morgan Brown — McCain’s Mum on Mortgage Reform McCain’s Mum on Mortgage Reform“,
“Morgan Brown — New conforming limits New conforming limits – what will it do to jumbo loan rates?“,
“Nick Bostic — Save the World (and some money) Save the World (and some money)“,
“Teri Lussier — The training of the shrewd The training of the shrewd“,
“Todd Carpenter — Why Google Page Rank Matters Perception Is Reality, Why Google Page Rank Matters“,
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Deadline for next week’s competition is Sunday at 12 Noon MST. You can nominate your own weblog entry or any post you admire here.
Technorati Tags: blogging, real estate, real estate marketing
Derek says:
12 out of 18 are Bloodhound contributors, 4 of those 12 are pointing directly to back to BHB and 4 have multiple nominations.
February 17, 2008 — 5:36 pm
Greg Swann says:
What do you want from me, Derek? I recruit for brains. Many of the posts that were cut were also written by Bloodhounds, not that that enters my mind at all in making my choices. All I’m interested in is the best — in this and in everything. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? You know the answer.
February 17, 2008 — 5:51 pm
Derek Burress says:
Answer #1: I have already told you once. I feel the whole thing is biased. I do believe BHB contributors should be eligible but I think you should pick their very best of the week and only their very best.
Two other articles come from Agent Genius. Nothing wrong with that but Greg, come on, you are choosing from a small pond = Bloodhound and Agent Genius.
Good writing? Have you even read half of the articles? A good dose of self promotion is what makes up about half of the articles on this list.
Just looking at the titles: You have two articles where half the article has been quoted from another source. 2 about how if the agent sends and email she expects to be emailed back, one basically defending you over the BS taking place over at Joe’s site and a John McCain article where the author basically said he’s pissed and going to write to the campaign.
Answer #2: You write like hell.
But self promotion is not good writing. Take it from Stephen King “Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends… it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.”
Tell me how self promotion and bitching is going to get you to Carnegie Hall?
February 17, 2008 — 7:14 pm
Greg Swann says:
I have a solution for you, the first idea that occurs to me whenever I find myself dissatisfied with someone else’s product: Up Your Own Organization. Build your own contest. If I really like it, I’ll defer to you. If you don’t want to do that, and you want to see more variety, at least among the Long List of nominees, nominate the posts you think I’m missing out on.
February 17, 2008 — 7:39 pm
Derek says:
Greg: You know good and well the first solution will not work. If I started my own contest, I would be accused left and right of stealing your idea.
Proof: You nearly fell out of your rocker some article a guy wrote a few days ago where he was trying to write the book on how to kick ass and used “Unchained” as his theme.
Now if you want me to go through the long list and help you make a short list which the voters can vote on, I’d be more than happy to compare my notes with you but I can tell you right now that unless the “fun interviews,” the self-promotion articles would never make my list.
For instance look at the long list on the side. You Cronin has an interview where he basically interviews his clients showing how using a Tomato blog has changed that’s person’s marketing (self promotion) then you got Lani’s interviews (I admit I do enjoy reading them) asking silly stuff like what’s the first injury you had or what was the craziest thing you ever done in public. Neither article offers anything other than a good laugh here and there and in my opinion shouldn’t even be on the long list at all. Same for the article that had nothing more than a poster of Russell Shaw and some other guy announcing some great debate (basically nothing but a heads-up advertisment.
With the entire sidebar thing, I think it does more harm than good as people are submitting BS post knowing it will be on the sidebar and a dozen other sites even through they have no chance of winning. For you, that’s bad as you have to go through everyone of them picking the pepper from the salt when you could be writing stuff yourself.
Anyways, I’m done arguing for the night so I’ll check in for another round of criticism (and another round of making an idiot of myself) on Tuesday (got a baseball game tomorrow).
February 17, 2008 — 8:45 pm
Derek says:
Yikes… in that last comment, my brain was writing faster than my fingers.
February 17, 2008 — 8:49 pm