I have seen the enemy and it is us (or 'the blogs')
It's old news, but I got a real kick out of the second paragraph at this link:
http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2007/02/04/dick-gaylord-incoming-nar-president-talks-of-future-for-real-estate-agents/
Specifically, this part: " . . . and the rise of the blogs will make it harder for the organization to get their message out clearly."
In other words, all those darn non-professional RE blogs are muddying up the waters, clouding the picture, fuzzing up the airwaves, clogging up the pipeline with non-NAR-approved, non-Realtor-speak! How DARE they!!!
I like the use of the phrase 'the blogs'--similar to 'the internets', or the use of 'the' before every highway number--"You take the 10 to the 405, to the 605, then to the 105 . . ."
So, Tim, congratulations on preventing the NAR from getting their message out, you're doing a fine job, mate! Watch out for that cease and desist order in your inbox shortly . . .
http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2007/02/04/dick-gaylord-incoming-nar-president-talks-of-future-for-real-estate-agents/
Specifically, this part: " . . . and the rise of the blogs will make it harder for the organization to get their message out clearly."
In other words, all those darn non-professional RE blogs are muddying up the waters, clouding the picture, fuzzing up the airwaves, clogging up the pipeline with non-NAR-approved, non-Realtor-speak! How DARE they!!!
I like the use of the phrase 'the blogs'--similar to 'the internets', or the use of 'the' before every highway number--"You take the 10 to the 405, to the 605, then to the 105 . . ."
So, Tim, congratulations on preventing the NAR from getting their message out, you're doing a fine job, mate! Watch out for that cease and desist order in your inbox shortly . . .
Comments
HouseWars IV: The rise of the Blogs!
That's SoCal style. They either throw a "the" in front of the number or call the (free|high)way by it's name (i.e. Santa Monica freeway, Long Beach freeway).
It truly was a forum of "instant public opinion" and gave those with dissenting voices a place to be heard....quickly. Not only that since the feedback was tied to specific stories, the feedback was very precise and focused. And it was extremely easy to see where public sentiment truly was. For a while one could actually get independent thought on various issues to counter the one way street that is the MSM.
Best feature was that the strongest opinions could be "Recommended" so one could easily and quickly see where public sentiment was.
Consequently specific politicians, corporations, and agendas were called out and crucified. In fact to this day I believe those forums helped the Democrats take control in the last election. Bush and his cronies were totally exposed on the Yahoo Message Board forums. Clearly, something had to be done....
So what happened was the wheels of democracy, freedom, and liberty turned and a MSM hack http://www.neilbudde.com/background.html was installed as new ruler of Yahoo news and within several months had shut down the Yahoo News Message Boards. Thus ended this highly effective forum for public debate and outrage.
Eventually Yahoo replaced the New Story message boards with a much less volatile and strictly controlled version which is designed to dilute and defuse any rising public outrage against specific news stories/actions on the part of government/business. Comparing the new message BOREDs with the old boards one can easily see the "sanitization" as a result of the divide and conquer strategy that was executed.
To this day when a story breaks people cannot log their outcrys against that story in such a precise and easy way. Bush, Monsanto, and the FED are now heros again.
How do I know?...I heard it on the MSM.
God Bless America...land of the free.
AOL did the same thing when the first subprime implosion story came out. Within 15 minutes of putting the article online it was pulled. When the NAR switched to the MOM figures for new home statistics, the same thing happened when people came in and started screaming "YOY has been changed to MOM".
Now you can't post on any article that is related to the Economy.
Celebrity divorces, DUI's and other "important" newsworthy articles still allow the masses to blabber on in the message boards.
I remember when Yahoo took down their boards also...a page came up stating that they were "improving" the feature and that it would be up and running in a couple months.
Statement dripping with sarcasm BTW.