Breaking News

Breaking_news I was surprised to learn this morning that BoingBoing, currently number 5 on the list of the top 100 blogs, has decided that they want to be in the number one spot.  They have some choices on how to get there but it will take some work.  They are considering using an Active Rain outside blogs. They have been reading about the power of Active Rain and believe they can move up faster with an outside blog.

If you are reading this and have never heard of the blog, the blog has been in the number one spot as ranked by Techorati, has an authority of 17,280, which is about 16,700 more than than the highest ranking real estate blog.

"Boing Boing is a weblog of cultural curiosities and interesting technologies. It’s the most popular blog in the world, as ranked by Technorati.com, and won the Lifetime Achievement and Best Group Blog awards at the 2006 Bloggies ceremony."

They know that there are millions of Realtors who have never heard of their blog even though they are one of the most popular blogs in the world.  An anonymous source said that Boing Boing knows that there are more than a million Realtors and that blogging and social networking are built around Realtors and real estate, and that Boing Boing should be participating in the conversation.   The same source said that he regrets that they did not start out on Active Rain to begin with, but had no idea that Real Estate is the center of the web 2.0 universe.

They are also interested in writing local content and look forward to having their content judged by Active Rain.  An anonymous source told me that he has no idea how they got as far as they did without active rain and that they look forward to the gold stars and networking with all of those Realtors.

I gave them some tips for how to have their content featured, by mentioning Active Rain in the post.  I was unable to tell them how to write outstanding local content because I really don’t get localism or hyper local content. I recognize the need for another real estate portal with content donated by Realtors, but I am not sure what to write about.  I have read up on it on Active Rain but it doesn’t make sense and I am still confused over the inside outside thing.  Is it like a belly button? 

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3 Responses to Breaking News

  1. LMAO … Pretty sure I will ONLY think of Belly Buttons when I think of Localism now. Thanks for that.

  2. Chris Shouse says:

    Of course Realtor’s are the center of the universe we sell the universe one piece at a time:) Hmm belly buttons I see a correlation there don’t you? LOL

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