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Tag Archives: elvis

visitors from planet earth…

Posted on August 24, 2006 by Dustin Luther

I can tell from the number of hits that these list of 10 posts are popular, but they don’t seem to generate much conversation. 🙁 Nonetheless, I’ll keep writing them as long as I’m enjoying myself! 🙂

  1. Christine gives her own top 10 recent stories. I love it!
  2. And Cheryl gives a list of 10 or is 12, maybe 13 great blogs. She’s building up a really nice blog, but then again, I’m partial to stories about the Eagle Rock area.
  3. On the subject of favorite websites, I’m partial to the seriously cool wiki technology behind WetPaint (This is the read/write web or Web2.0). To get an idea of how useful their site can be, I recently set up a wishlist for all of the items that were requested by my daughter’s teacher for the start of her first grade. Now any of the parents in the class can easily see what items that still need to be purchased and if they decide to buy/donate the item, they can let everyone else know by adding a “purchased” next to the item. This is so much easier for everyone involved than the slew of emails and half-updated word documents that were floating around. (Full Disclosure: Wetpaint sent me some free swag (a hat and a t-shirt), but that was only after I showed some definite interest in their product to one of their founders)
  4. [photopress:crazy_lazyBETA.png,full,alignright]Talking web2.0, I was contacted from the same earth aliens as Greg, but unlike him, I had no luck whatsoever with the product. I could download a file (as long as I limited the data to 1 mile radius around a zip), but couldn’t get it to display anything in Google Earth… Nonetheless, you know someone has as sense of humor when they use the Web2.0 logo creator to create their logo.
  5. Looking at the earth put me in a green mood, and reminded me of this article by David Whitten where he’s briefly describes a recent green home tour he took. I should definitely do some more research on green home technology.
  6. Speaking of green, Osman mentions the ecobroker certification for agents who want to be “equipped with additional energy and environmental information and tools that help them provide added value to all of their real estate transactions.” I’m scared to think what the Tomato might throw at this certification. 🙂
  7. Is Marlow aware of the Elvis Impersonation DVD mentioned by Will Hicks out of Memphis?
  8. Mike insists on being interesting: “Don’t blame the housing bubble on a couple years of cheap interest rates. Rather demographics, technology, and financial market innovation have converged to give us a long boom.“
  9. Mike has a somewhat unfair data advantage, but I think agents like Osman, Lisa, and Merv do a great job putting context around local numbers.
  10. I’m looking to add lesser-known real estate blogs to my feed reader. If you are not already listed in my wiki directory, and you are an active real estate blogger writing link-worthy content, let me know by leaving a comment below.
Posted in General | Tagged Bubble, dvd, elvis, environment, green, houses, list-of-10, logo, rates, real-estate, video, web2.0, wetpaint

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