Three Phoenix-area webloggers, Jay Thompson, The Phoenix Real Estate Guy, John Wake of Arizona Real Estate Notebook, and Greg Swann of BloodhoundBlog, helped turn a radio show into a five-media event: The radio broadcast itself, listener call-in questions, live weblogging with listener call-in and write-in questions, an on-line podcast and static weblogging after-the-fact. KJZZ-FM radio host Steve Goldstein and producer Paul Atkinson pulled the whole event together. Economist Alan McGuire participated as well, along with call-in guests and pre-taped segments.
The topic was the Phoenix real estate market: Is it a bubble or simply a market correction? For the most part, the bubble contingency wasn’t represented, but there was a great deal of very detailed economic information coming in from all sources.
KJZZ has made its own web page available, along with a podcast of the radio broadcast. Paul Atkinson told me that the live weblogging was very active. The folks at the radio station were very excited about the vibrancy of the multi-media experience. I can’t speak for the other webloggers — I know they’ll speak for themselves — but I had a blast.
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Jay Thompson says:
>I can’t speak for the other webloggers — I know >they’ll speak for themselves — but I had a blast.
Indeed! I thought it was a great show. You and Alan did a great job, IMHO. Got a nice note from Paul, he seemed quite pleased with it as well.
Traffic on my blog went a little crazy there too. That’s not why I did it, but it’s a pleasent side effect. Thanks for hooking us up!
September 20, 2006 — 4:21 pm
Monika says:
Hi:
I just launched a new blog called housebuying-guide where I try to help
first time homebuyers and where I also give tips to avoid common mistakes
on buying houses.
I added a link to your blog on my sidebar, you can check it here:
http://www.housebuying-guide.com/
I just put the plain url address of your site but you can tell me what
text you want me to use for your site.
In exchange if it is not asking too much I would love that you also link
to my blog with the text “How to buy a house” for example.
If we exchange links we will both increase our popularity on the web.
Thanks for your time
Regards, Monika
September 21, 2006 — 11:06 am
RipeDurian says:
Hey I caught this show via a link at Housing Panic.
It was really entertaining to hear you and the other folks with economic interests in Phoenix housing spin like mad. 🙂
The appraiser who called in was a like breath of icy fresh air, you could just feel the contrast. Someone who was stepping up and telling the unspun truth.
I especially liked the phrase “Nobody is going to sleep outdoors.” Is that a Swann original?
Best regards.
September 21, 2006 — 1:56 pm
Todd Tarson says:
Of course I didn’t get to hear the show from Kingman, but I did manage to listen to the show via Internet this morning and I read the banter with the bloggers. Really cool format by the radio team. Good job by all.
September 21, 2006 — 4:25 pm
Greg Swann says:
> Really cool format by the radio team. Good job by all.
Thanks. I thought it was very cool all around.
September 21, 2006 — 8:25 pm
BelchMeister says:
Greg,
Your profession and your spin are a disgrace.
Greg’s new friend Monika:
Common mistakes on buying houses #1: buying crappy stucco crapbox in middle of brown dry ugly desert in a suburban strip-mall “city” that is striving to be as crappy as L. A. as said crapbox begins long painful depreciation from speculative height that is beyond laughable
Common mistake on buying houses #2: listening to spin-meisters/morons like yourself that will advise people to go walk off a financial cliff for a crappy stucco crapbox in the middle of Phoenix
Enjoy your lovely careers! You must feel great about your livelihoods. Enjoy baking out there in the desert too! Hope you can continue to string together morons, I mean buyers, in the face of price depreciation and the coming mainstream media education of the lemmings! No I don’t! Here’s to you both falling off that same financial cliff you’ve been steering the masses towards!
Cheers,
Another big fan
September 22, 2006 — 10:47 pm