Comments on: Who’s Afraid of the RE.net? http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-events/2008/whos-afraid-of-the-renet_1020.html Home of the Sacramento Market Update and Ask The Realtor® Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:03:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: John Lockwood http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-events/2008/whos-afraid-of-the-renet_1020.html#comment-29087 John Lockwood Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:35:48 +0000 http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-events/2008/whos-afraid-of-the-renet_1020.html#comment-29087 You had me at sandbox voyeurism. :) You had me at sandbox voyeurism. :)

]]> By: laurie mindnich http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-events/2008/whos-afraid-of-the-renet_1020.html#comment-29086 laurie mindnich Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:32:22 +0000 http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-events/2008/whos-afraid-of-the-renet_1020.html#comment-29086 I'm going to check it out- with a New York February impeding my own blogging efforts (of course, it isn't ME) it's cold enough out to engage in some sandbox voyeurism. But, I'll bring my shovel, just in case. I’m going to check it out- with a New York February impeding my own blogging efforts (of course, it isn’t ME) it’s cold enough out to engage in some sandbox voyeurism. But, I’ll bring my shovel, just in case.

]]> By: John Lockwood http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-events/2008/whos-afraid-of-the-renet_1020.html#comment-29080 John Lockwood Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:51:13 +0000 http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-events/2008/whos-afraid-of-the-renet_1020.html#comment-29080 Athol, Thanks for stopping by. The RE.net has a goal? :) No actually, I agree with you. What's interesting is that you have a few loudmouth A-list bloggers sniping at each other and trying to appeal to other real estate bloggers. Meantime the real estate bloggers are working on blogs that look nothing like the if-you-build-it-they-will-buy-from-you utopian ideals of the conference vendors. You have to give props to guys like Jim Cronin who actually know something and try to stay above the fray. Also ParticleWave.com. (Oh wait -- am I in that business too? Depends what day you ask). So what you have in the RE.net are blogs that nobody reads but where you can buy something useful (like mine and a house, respectively) versus those that lots of people reading and arguing but where what's being sold is the idea that someone will read you. I find the whole thing terrifyingly inbred and venal, but I'd really like to connect with a few good bloggers more than I do, folks like you and Jay and Maureen and the like. Speaking of that, would you want to maybe do an article swap some time? Athol,

Thanks for stopping by.

The RE.net has a goal? :)

No actually, I agree with you.

What’s interesting is that you have a few loudmouth A-list bloggers sniping at each other and trying to appeal to other real estate bloggers. Meantime the real estate bloggers are working on blogs that look nothing like the if-you-build-it-they-will-buy-from-you utopian ideals of the conference vendors. You have to give props to guys like Jim Cronin who actually know something and try to stay above the fray. Also ParticleWave.com. (Oh wait — am I in that business too? Depends what day you ask).

So what you have in the RE.net are blogs that nobody reads but where you can buy something useful (like mine and a house, respectively) versus those that lots of people reading and arguing but where what’s being sold is the idea that someone will read you.

I find the whole thing terrifyingly inbred and venal, but I’d really like to connect with a few good bloggers more than I do, folks like you and Jay and Maureen and the like.

Speaking of that, would you want to maybe do an article swap some time?

]]> By: Athol Kay http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-events/2008/whos-afraid-of-the-renet_1020.html#comment-29079 Athol Kay Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:53:40 +0000 http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-events/2008/whos-afraid-of-the-renet_1020.html#comment-29079 I suspect the goal of the RE.net is not to actually sell real estate, but to establish themselves as a vendor of some sort to the real estate community at some point in the future. This results in some jockeying for position based on the assumption that only linited superstar slots will be available to act as a vendor to the real estate community in the future. Whether either of those two points are true or not are up for debate no doubt. I suspect the goal of the RE.net is not to actually sell real estate, but to establish themselves as a vendor of some sort to the real estate community at some point in the future.

This results in some jockeying for position based on the assumption that only linited superstar slots will be available to act as a vendor to the real estate community in the future.

Whether either of those two points are true or not are up for debate no doubt.

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