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.
If you’re viewing this blog for the first time today because you saw me (Tim Ellis) on KING 5 News tonight, I’d like to take a moment to welcome you. Seattle Bubble is the Seattle area’s #1 resource for news, analysis, commentary, and community discussion on the local real estate market. This community site is focused on productive discussion of the local housing market, so that everyone involved can work toward a goal of improving understanding and dispelling myths.
Please take a moment to look around the site. Drop by the About Page for a brief summary of what we do.
Here are some recent stories that may interest you if you want to know what’s going on in today’s real estate market around Seattle:
or, if you’re a number-crunching kind of person, any of the posts in the stats category
For those of you that aren’t new, and didn’t catch KING 5 news tonight, I will update this post later with the video clip. For now you can view the video on the KING 5 website here. Check back later tonight or tomorrow morning for an embedded video on this post.
Update: Here’s the video that I uploaded to YouTube:
Update 2: Neat, I found out that you can view a noticeably higher-quality version of the YouTube video by going to this link. Unfortunately I can’t seem to embed this version without it stretching it vertically. Oh well.
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.
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.
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!
It’s time again for me to come begging for votes in the Metroblogging Seattle blog tournament. We’re in a close race in the quarterfinal, but I think we can win it. I’m not so sure of our chances should we make it to the next round, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, go vote for Seattle Bubble to help bring more attention to the best real estate blog around :^) Please?
