Rain City Guide

1. Comment from Deborah Burns
Time September 21, 2007 at 5:59 pm

Sure is a lot of NW influence on that list! Very technology forward company leaders: Glenn Kelman of Redfin, Lennox Scott of John L. Scott, Richard Barton & Lloyd Frink of Zillow, Ian Morris of HouseValues, and the newest ones Matt Heaton & Jonathan Washburn of ActiveRain. Very cool!

2. Comment from apella
Time September 21, 2007 at 7:41 pm

Thanks for the list -

Is a great post.

3. Comment from Derek Burress
Time September 21, 2007 at 8:30 pm

Deb: With the exceptions of those folks down in Florida, there is not very many bloggers in the Southeast. A few here and there but nothing compared to the northwest that’s for sure. We’re still in the Myspace world down here…

Try coming to NC and interviewing for a job as an agent in the east. Mention you are a blogger and the first words out of the broker’s mouth is “See You later!”

Bloggers are a big threat to established brokerages here. I see it as a big plus for brokerages but the owners and stuff, I guess they are scared us bloggers are a huge liabilty instead.

4. Comment from ines
Time September 21, 2007 at 10:00 pm

I’m glad I made it in there! phew!! (that’s an impressive list)

5. Comment from Sniglet
Time September 21, 2007 at 10:13 pm

I am glad that they mentioned Lockhart Steele (of curbed.com), but I notice the absence of such people as Ben Jones (of TheHousingBubbleBlog.com) or Patrick (of Patrick.net), or any other of the hugely successfull “bubble” blogs. These guys have had an enourmous influence on the industry, and public. In fact, many bubble blogs have an order of magnitude more traffic, and audience, than many of the industry oriented offerings cited in the list.

Or what about Robert Schiller? He has had a massive influence in the past year, with interviews almost weekly in major publications. His futures index has been a success, and his books are widely quoted.

Heck, I would even nominate our very own “The Tim” as the most influential Puget Sound area real-estate personality of the year.

6. Comment from Jillayne Schlicke
Time September 21, 2007 at 10:46 pm

Hi Sniglet,

I believe Professor Schiller made the list.

Yes, the list was missing some of the influential bloggers. The list seemed to be mostly CEOs, heads of influential companies, or people who (surprise!) write for Inman such as Bob Bruss, or who speak at the Inman conventions, or who Inman would like to have speak at their conventions.

How about Joel from FOREM or Pat Kitano from TransparentRE? Or Greg from Bloodhound? Instead, “all real estate bloggers” get the award. That’s like your mother telling you she “loves all of you kids the same.” We want to know Inman’s favorite (influential) bloggers.

I like that the ml-implode.com guy was mentioned. I visit that site multiple times each day. What about calculatedrisk? That blog has two exceptionally fine writers. Brad, would you please add a blogger category next year?

7. Comment from Sniglet
Time September 21, 2007 at 10:51 pm

Jillayne,

Hmmm… I did a text search for Schiller and didn’t find him in the .pdf. But I’ll take your word that he’s there. Maybe it would help if I actually read the whole document rather than skimmed it.

8. Comment from Sniglet
Time September 21, 2007 at 10:54 pm

Jillayne,

Are you saying that Inman wouldn’t want to have Ben Jones or Tim Ellis speak at their conventions? I am sure the audience wouldn’t fall asleep.

9. Comment from Jillayne Schlicke
Time September 22, 2007 at 3:46 pm

Hi Sniglet,

Inman needs BIG NAMES to attract big crowds for their keynotes. Maybe at future Connect conferences, we’ll see a panel of bubble bloggers.

But, you know, now that I type this, I realize that I attended an Inman Connect conference years ago and Larry Page was the keynote. Many of the people sitting around me had no idea of the significance of our keynote speaker.

Prof. Shiller is on pg 25 of the report, (26 of the pdf.)

He would make a great speaker for the next Connect.

10. Comment from ARDELL
Time September 22, 2007 at 6:49 pm

Inman lumped “bloggers” together as a class of influence. Jillayne, this year the Keynote was Hugh McLeod, internationally famous cartoonist, and several people walked out when one of his cartoons on the screen had a penis.

If they walk out on a cartoon, I doubt they’d sit through a bubble blogger

P.S. a sample of his cartoons to further describe him.  This one reminded me of a balance we should always keep in mind.

11. Comment from Jillayne Schlicke
Time September 22, 2007 at 9:33 pm

How very SuperBad of Hugh to use the mighty phallus in a room full of adults. What do these people do to save themselves from post traumatic stress after they check their spam bin?

12. Comment from Jillayne Schlicke
Time September 22, 2007 at 9:35 pm

Oh yes, I remember reading about him. He’s the one that draws pictures on the back of business cards. I bet he was fabulous.

13. Comment from ARDELL
Time September 23, 2007 at 7:59 am

Jillayne,

You are clearly my “keynote speaker” for 2007. Dustin was my “keynote speaker” for 2006. Each of us has a “Person of the Year” each year that dramatically impacts our way of thinking and doing business. I’m predicting Jonathan Washburn to be my 2008 Keynote Speaker

14. Comment from Kevin Tomlinson
Time September 23, 2007 at 2:35 pm

Who’s going to Inman in NYC? All you NE people need to “step up” and jet to the east coast in Jan. If I can come from Miami, you Silicon/Seattle peeps can go to NYC!

15. Comment from ARDELL
Time September 23, 2007 at 2:46 pm

If you come here for Thanksgiving, we’ll send Kevin Boer and Pat Kitano as West Coast reps Dustin might be going.

16. Comment from Dustin
Time September 23, 2007 at 7:32 pm

I may end up in NYC in January, but I haven’t made any plans yet…

17. Comment from Jim Frey
Time September 24, 2007 at 10:01 am

awwwwww, shucks!