Seattle Bubble

Just a quick note to let you know that King 5 Evening Magazine will be airing a series of segments this week under the banner “Real Estate ‘08,” which as you can guess, are all about the local real estate market. You can catch the segments on their website, or on TV from 7:00 to 7:30. Yesterday’s stories looked at building perks to try to lure you into condos (with a guest appearance from my least-favorite SPU profs), Zillow’s “Make Me Move” feature, and (I wish I were making this up), a “house-selling spiritualist.”

One of the segments later this week will feature me gabbing with co-host Jim Dever about Seattle Bubble and the local market. I’ll probably post that particular segment on here once it airs.

P.S. (If the King 5 website tries to get you to register to view any of the above links, just remove the “http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/membership/join.jsp?fw=” part from the address bar and try again.)

Update: I’ll be on tomorrow night. In the promo after tonight’s show they plugged my segment with the line “he’s the Seattle Real Estate guru who doesn’t even own a house!” That’s amusing to me, because I have never, nor would I ever refer to myself as a “real estate guru.”

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I’d like to take a moment to announce a fun new gimmick that I’ve created for donating to Seattle Bubble: Bulls, Bears, and Ponies. A lot of people have given some money to Seattle Bubble, and your donations are greatly appreciated. However, until now there has been no way to get a little recognition for your contribution to keeping this site running.

That’s where Bulls, Bears, and Ponies come in. It’s just a fun little way for me to say “thank you” to people that donate to Seattle Bubble. When you donate through the Bulls, Bears, Ponies page, you’ll get your very own little icon over on the sidebar under the advertising block, with whatever message you choose. It will even link to a site if you like.

For the full details, check out the Bulls, Bears, Ponies page. Have a great weekend everyone.

This is just a quick note to let everyone know that I am withdrawing Seattle Bubble from the “Blarch Badness” blog tournament. If you would like to read a more detailed statement, click below.

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Just a quick update on the blog contest that Seattle Bubble is in over at Metroblogging Seattle.

As of this post, it’s a dead heat, with Seattle Bubble trailing by one vote, 924 to 925. Many thanks to everyone who has voted so far, and special thanks to Rain City Guide and Seattle Real Estate Professionals for the plugs.

The Lookout Landing crowd seems to think that they will get a surge of votes this evening surrounding the Mariner’s first game, so we need your vote now more than ever.

If you’re reading this on a computer that displays poll options instead of poll results over on the right sidebar, then click the little bullet next to “Seattle Bubble” and click “Vote.” I’m talking to you too, RSS subscribers. Take five seconds to load either Seattle Bubble or the contest page, and vote for us.

This concludes today’s episode of “Shameless Begging.” We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

[Update:] Seattle Bubble has withdrawn.

Thanks to your support, Seattle Bubble has now bested seven foes across three rounds, to advance to the semi-finals of Metroblogging Seattle’s blog tournament. This round we’re up against two sports blogs that got busted for cheating in the previous round.

To make it even easier to help us win this round, I’ve embedded the poll at the top of the sidebar to the right. You can also go to the official poll site here. Either way, I hope you take the brief moment to support the best real estate blog in town. Let’s win this thing!