Charlottesville Blog Carnival
I will be hosting the Charlottesville Blog Carnival this Friday. If you have seen any posts that are particularly resonant, pithy or intriguing, please email me. Submission deadline is Thursday at 9pm. Anoop Ranganath will be hosting next week. Volunteers for the week after?
Charlottesville Blog Carnival
The Charlottesville Blog Carnival is hosted this week by Duane Gran. Next week's carnival will be hosted here. If you see a particularly fascinating or insightful (or not) post between now and next Thursday at 7pm, please email me. Golly, what's a carnival? If you…
Search terms
I am frequently amused at the ways visitors reach this blog. Not only do I frequently get a little chuckle, but these term provide some valuable insight into the minds of searchers. Knowing what my readers want to know helps me target my writing a…
A shorter title for this blog?
Based on this little exchange - (not linking to avoid pingbacks :)) - https://www.cvillenews.com/2006/03/31/blog-round-up-5/#comments - I think I'm going to change the title to simply realcentralva.com rather than "Central VA real estate news, trends and opinions" and leave the tagline "Tracking the Charlottesville and Central…
Morning reading 04-04-06
Economic and ecological truth Pod people ... dysfunctional layout of their physical environment -- the separation of land uses; the physical disconnect between houses, offices and stores built in pods; the stringing of those pods along feeder and arterial roads -- that they take it…
Trends, changes and crap
The Washington Post has a potentially excellent series on Emerging Trends, touching on many facets of the changing market. From one of these articles: "It's not what the market will bear anymore," said Walter Molony of the National Association of Realtors. "It's a question of…
Competition is a good thing
At last year's Blogger's Conference, one of the bloggers told me that he would follow my blog, because he was curious to see how successful a business blog could be. What a year it's been. The success (or lack thereof) is difficult to measure. Based…
A sure-fire way to marginalize open discourse on blogs
Courtesy of NJ Assemblyman Peter Biondi: 2. The operator of any interactive computer service or an Internet service provider shall establish, maintain and enforce a policy to require any information content provider who posts written messages on a public forum website either to be identified…
WordPress Upgrade
My site has been upgraded to Wordpress 2.01 today. If anything seems out of sort, please point it out. Thanks go to Podz!