I don’t know if Hell has actually frozen over. Even though I’ve been told to go to hell many times over the years, I’ve not actually gone there (in the literal sense). So I can’t say I’ve seen it frozen over. But if a year ago someone had told me that I would gladly and […]
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by Brian Brady
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Bombastic blogger, Kevin Tomlinson, knows how to rile up the crowds. Most of you met Kevin through the Project Blogger competition, hosted by Activerain.com. Kevin never disappoints. He made the dramatic statement that he believed… Bloodhound Blog would be shut down by Friday. Kevin’s not mean, he just likes a little controversy. I thought I’d […]
BloodhoundBlog made its reputation, from the very beginning, digging up bones to pick with vendors. And of all the vendors that I, personally, have picked on, surely the one I have picked on worst is Redfin.com and its CEO, Glenn Kelman. But of all those vendors, of all those exalted CEOs, only one has come […]
The power supply on my Mac has bee acting flaky for weeks. Last night it finally died the true death, so I have to take it to the Apple Store to get it swapped out. So there are three special prizes in my CrackerJack box: No Mac Windows instead A delay in the judging of […]
John Cook fingered this mash note to Redfin.com in Forbes Magazine. More of the same four-legs-good, two-legs-bad crap we expect from the mainstream media, but it’s short enough that the bias is almost too obvious. Consider the attributions for quotes: “says Kelman, 37” “Kelman says.” “one Redfin representative wrote recently” “read another posting” “says Steven […]
One of the benefits of The Odysseus Medal competition, for me, personally — especially since we started echoing the Long List of nominees — is that I don’t feel as much pressure to weigh in on every last thing. I’ve been writing software in my spare moments for the last two weeks, and, amazingly enough, […]
There are 18 entries on the short list this week, out of a long list of 78 posts. A lot of news, so a longer short-list. Upside: A boatload of fascinating reading. Vote for the People’s Choice Award here. You can use the voting interface to see each nominated post, so comparison is easy. Ahem: […]
On Hiatus From A Two-Year Zillow Blogging Embargo I have never blogged about Zillow… or Redfin, for that matter. I’ve always felt that they got more free press than they deserved – not that they don’t deserve some free press, ’cause they do – and as such, there wasn’t anything else I needed to add […]
Here’s a comment that got deleted earlier tonight, a pearl of wisdom issued from one orifice or another by a less-than-brilliant pundit who chose to keep his or her identity concealed. The soul and substance of this partial portion of wit: this is easily the worst blog on the RE.net Todd Seavey wrote a brilliant […]
There are 36 entries on the short list this week. That’s a ton, but, even so, it’s less than half of what we started with. Given that it’s a holiday week, there was a lot of great stuff this week. We knew that going in, because both Jeff Kempe and Kris Berg hit home runs […]
I was on Fox Business Network yesterday bitching about all the ways the U.S. government has interfered with the residential real estate market, resulting in both our recent boom and our current bust. The topic itself is not new to me, but it’s not something I’ve addressed in a full-blown philosophical argument. Surely that would […]
Okay, it’s my turn. I generally leave the loftier industry fodder for other, more qualified (if not more committed), real estate bloggers to cull over. I commend visionaries like Greg Swann for single handedly forcing readers across the R.E. Web (okay, me) to look up such words as disintermediation, Quixotism (just making sure), and even Odysseus, although the latter was only because Dan Green told me he thought […]
My Big Bang Theory is about science colliding with religion, and a lot of noise. My strike has been temporarily suspended. I got the same advance notice that so many others did of the BIG NEWS this week, but press releases are rarely conveniently timed around my real estate business schedule, so I will chime […]
Some news first: The first of the BloodhoundBlog Unchained lapel pins sold for $20.50. The second auction closes in about 24 hours. Todd Carpenter is hosting a contest for the funniest RE.net blog post for 2007. I am badly eclipsed in a contest like this — where’s the award for Exotic Quixotism? — but I […]
I don’t want to be mean to Redfin.com. It’s Christmas, for one thing. Plus which, Cynthia Pang, Redfin’s PR Queen, is even nicer than David Gibbons. And, all things considered, Redfin’s latest bold PR thrust is not all that awful. But still, it is funny… The fact is, these Dilberts don’t actually work in real […]