Blogging’s rise
This article from the current American Journalism Review examines blogs' influence on the recent political campaign in the Commonwealth. I personally see blogs contributing to the dispersion of news and information rather than replacing mainstream newspapers. I say newspapers and their online arms because I…
New feature
In the sidebar to the left, you will see the new "Worth Noting," borrowed from Rain City Real Estate Guide. I use my blog as a bit of a repository for my thoughts and as a knowledge dump; as I have been using del.icio.us more,…
1,000 posts
What a scary number. I have been blogging for a year now; I started 4 January of 2005. I have written a lot, but have learned a lot more, both from those commenting and from my own research and need to be an expert on…
New theme?
It's the weekend, so I'm tinkering a bit. I want to change the appearance of this site, but cannot decide between this one, this one or this one. What do you think? Or one of these?
Ideas for future posts
Some good ideas come from the keyword analysis for my blog. A couple that give me a bit of inspiration, yet no time yet to write: hollymead town center condominiums charlottesville housing bubble what real estate trends from 2005 do you see going away in…
Ideas wanted
I am always looking for creative inspiration. Now I ask the readers (all three of you) to email me your ideas for what you would like to see here. Anything that you think might generate a good conversation, something that has not been discussed elsewhere…
Local blogging – it’s a start.
The DP has an interesting article this morning about the growing local blogging community (side note, I too want to be a blogist), which has been brought into focus, in my opinion, by Waldo. Cvilleblogs is a simple idea, and brilliant in its simplicity and…
Plagiarism and blogging
I came across this blog this morning that (I think accidentally) linked to one of my stories. I appears that he is copying and pasting my stories without attribution. Flattered? Upset? Robbed? Three of his eight stories are mine. It took me a little while…
Website updates
Maintaining an efficient and profitable real estate website takes an awful lot of time; I worked for almost 90 minutes or so this morning. Two notable additions: - I have added a discoverable RSS feed for this blog to my real estate site's homepage. -…