What is Advertising?
Until recently, I’ve never cared about advertising in any way, except as I tried to click away from it on the rare occasion I watched...
What Makes A Home Valuable?
Larry Cragun’s post today, called Unique Features Make Homes Valuable, makes me wonder whether effective listing data standards are possible. How do you describe that...
RETS Meeting Next Week
Next week Jaison Freed and I trek off to Austin for the spring RETS meetings. Up first on the agenda is a mammoth (almost all...
How Did I Miss This?
I read the NY Times on-line and try to read as many blogs as I can, but somehow I missed this ActiveRain post by Mitchell...
MLS 7.0 (re-post because I’m stupid)
I’m re-posting my MLS 7.0 post because, incredibly, I deleted the original. I started the post with my primary laptop but finished it with my...
MLS 7.0 (re-post because I’m stupid)
I’m re-posting my MLS 7.0 post because, incredibly, I deleted the original. I started the post with my primary laptop but finished it with my...
That’s Going on Your Permanent Record, Mister!
Alternate Titles: “Why Zillow Is Old School” or “Why Listing Data Standards Are Important” I’ve previously suggested that listing data standards are very important for...
To Go With Your Morning Coffee
There’s an interesting discussion brewing over at the Bloodhound. Below are some comments I posted over there in response to Greg Swann writing, “When little...
Zillow Doublethink
“His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully-constructed...
The Dog Woke Me Up
When I wake up in the middle of the night, which is often, I have a bad habit of looking at the tablet PC I...
I Thought April Fool’s Day Was Over
Nobody said life was easy here in North Dakota. April 3rd!
Not another post on days on market!?
Yep, sorry. But maybe this post is different, because we write MLS software and need to try to accommodate the many diverging views. Wow, are...