There are 15 entries on the short list this week, out of a long list of 82 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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“Connie Brzowski — Mortgage Crisis The Mortgage Crisis Has a Silver Lining (and other truths you won’t hear on cable news this week)“,
“Dan Green — Herd Mentality How Herd Mentality Determines The Direction Of Mortgage Rates“,
“Doug Quance — School Of Hard Knocks Tuition Is Expensive At The School Of Hard Knocks“,
“Drew Meyers — Neighborhood Boundary Files 7000+ Neighborhood Boundary Files in Shapefile Format“,
“Eric Blackwell — Network Solutions Network Solutions — I-CANN too hold your domain ideas hostage!“,
“Gary Elwood — Writing Why Writing Is the Most Important Thing You Can Learn“,
“Greg Tracy — Realtors are too Damn Old Realtors are Just too Damn Old“,
“Jim Cronin — Readers or Search Engines? Dichotomy of the Real Estate Blog – Do You Please the Readers or Search Engines?“,
“Kris Berg — Technology Hangover Technology Hangover – I’m a little fuzzy.“,
“Michael Wurzer — Seeking Clarity Seeking Clarity in Real Estate Data Standards“,
“Morgan Brown — A Fool’s Rally We’re looking at a fool’s rally – plain and simple.“,
“Chris Johnson — Economics of Wholesale Lending Some Economics of Wholesale Lending: Yet another Reason Why it’s a dead man walking.“,
“Stan Humphries — Zestimation What’s in a Number?“,
“Trevor Smith — Different Kind of Buyer Theology, Postmodernism, and a Different Kind of Buyer“,
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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.
The Odysseus Medal this week goes to Kris Berg for 
The Black Pearl Award this week goes to Krista Baker with 
Each new nominee will be reflected in this list, posting blog-style, most recent nominee on top. I’ll have to moderate the entries for spam and porn, but I’ve built tools to enable me to amend the list by means of clickable links from my email — the power of PHP. This week’s list is semi-sorta randomized, because I didn’t have the standing nominations sorted by their date and time of entry.
The People’s Choice Award this week goes to Chris McKeever for