Oct. 20, 2006

Carnival - "Step Right Up and Guess"

'Who threw the chair?' 

Inman Blog asks:
"could someone fill us in on the California Association of Realtors' technology panel in Long Beach earlier this week that one Realtor said, "almost reached a Jerry Springer-like" dynamic? Inman, Move's Allan Dalton and Zillow's Lloyd Frink were on the panel with CAR's Joel Singer."
--Jessica Swesey, Inman News

"Realtors cool to Zillow.com chief" By Jeff Collins of The Orange County Register (California)

"Allan Dalton bitterly criticized Zillow.com, likening the site’s trademark Zestimates of home values to a carnival weight and age guesser."

Real estate is local.  I first read about Dalton and Frink's exchange on California REALTOR® Roberta Murphy's blog, The RealView. I love Sellsius° Blog's doctored photo of Lloyd Frink as a carnival guesser.  Sellsius Blogs Carnival Photo (I am a fan..)  Note the room for an advertisement on Frink's collar?  Real Living has been an advertisor on Zillow since the beginning.  Real Living is a bit more web 2.0 than lots of real estate companies.   Real Living has Zillow on the website. 

I am not a Jerry Springer Show fan but I get the Inman reference to the sometimes Ohio politician and national talk show host.  I must have watched it waaaaay back when because the freak show with guests throwing chairs and punches immediately came to mind when I read Inman Blogs take on the panel discussion.... I remember hearing or reading The Jerry Springer show is rehearsed, staged...    I looked the Jerry Springer Show up to see if it is still on TV.  It is. Monday through Friday 9:00 AM locally  on WTTE channel 28. The show is in it's sixteenth season according to the Jerry Springer website. 

According to Wikipedia, chairs don't fly on the Jerry Springer Show anymore:  

"Since 1999, the show has adhered to a no-violence rule: guests can no longer fight, use foul language, or perform lewd or obscene acts. However, since 2002 female audience members are actively encouraged to expose their breasts for the cameras and are awarded strings of beads in emulation of Mardi Gras tradition."

Good to hear the Jerry Springer show has evolved... kept up with the times... they show that at 9:00 AM in Columbus, Monday through Friday?

All REALTORS® love Realtor.com and hate Zillow.com don't they?  Wouldn't it be easy if it worked that way? 

I am not a fan of:

• The Jerry Springer Show
• WTTE TV in general but maybe I just don't watch it and assume it is all Jerry Springer Show all of the time
• Realtor.com ...real estate is local use local websites to search ... great one is on my websites and blog... see the Search at the bottom of this page...  HER Real Living's search!  

If anyone cares what I am a fan of.... in addition to Sellsius Blog and Roberta Murphy's Blog, Active Rain.com motherhood, baseball,  apple pie.... etc.

• Real Living, I think it is smart to use Zillow on the Real Living website especially since Joel B on the Future of Real Estate Marketing Blog told me and the real estate world it was a good idea.
• HER Real Living  
• Web 2.0. 
• Zillow?  I am not sure I am a fan but I like to play on Zillow ... check it against reality.. and blog about the UnZillowability of local real estate. I have blogged about it a time or two....
• The National Association of REALTORS® (the distinction between NAR and Realtor.com and now Move.com that used to be Homestore.com is sometime difficult to understand.)

I sometimes read the Carnival of Real Estate...Zillow's weekly Carnival of real estate blogs....  I think  on Inman Blog this week..... wow... could it have been staged any better.....

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