As many of you know, this weekend we’re hosting the 63rd Carnival of Real Estate. I would like to say that I am totally pumped about it, but honestly, I have mixed emotions. Seriously, each time I receive another carnival entry, I have a tiny panic attack. I continue to ask myself, who am I to opine on what is great, and what is not so great? In blogging, it is easy to skim and move-on, but this weekend I will have to read each entry and rank them- this is alien to me, this ranking you speak of. All of you that are on our blogroll are great, and I am sure there are another 100 that are equally as great, but if I were asked to rank them- forget it, there’s no way.
So, I promise to read each one, deeply, and pray that the greatest will simply rise to the top all by itself and then each one line up behind the first- just like good little soldiers.
I thought I would revisit a few of the previous C.O.R.E. hosts tonight to see what I could learn of how they established what great is, but I have a feeling I’m just going to have to wing this ‘ranking’ thing on my own. Here’s the list I’m running down tonight… join me, won’t you?
Read Previous C.O.R.E
- 01- Zillow Blog
- 02- Searchlight Crusade
- 03- Real Estate Marketing
- 04- Property Grunt
- 05- Brownstoner
- 06- Pine Needle Lawn
- 07- Landlord Blog
- 08- Nubricks
- 09- Real Estate Tomato
- 10- BlueRoof.com Blog
- 11- Matrix
- 12- YoChicago
- 13- BloodHound
- 14- Inman News
- 15- Hotpads
- 16- Real Central VA
- 17- Landlord Schmandlord
- 18- True Gotham
- 19- Ubertor
- 20- Real Estate Investing for Real
- 21- Property Monger
- 22- Active Rain
- 23- Seattle Real Estate Professionals
- 24- @HouseValues
- 25- 360Digest
- 26- Minneapolis Real Estate Market Update
- 27- 1st Million at 33
- 28- BloodHound Blog
- 29- Rey Estate
- 30- Pittsburgh Homes Daily
- 31- Real Estate Zebra
- 32- Salt Lake Real Estate Blog
- 33- Phoenix Real Estate Guy
- 34- Mike’s Corner
- 35- miOakland County
- 36- NY Houses 4 Sale
- 37- Phoenix Real Estate Guy
- 38- Renthusiast
- 39- Trulia Blog
- 40- TransparentRE
- 41- Lansner on Real Estate
- 42- RSS Pieces
- 43- HomeThinking
- 44- North Fulton County Real Estate Blog
- 45- Christian Real Estate Network
- 46- Home Staging; Rants & Raving
- 47- RE Agent in CT
- 48- Altos Research
- 49- ValleyMarket
- 50- Sadie’s Take on Delaware Ohio
- 51- Rain City Guide
- 52- Sacramento Real Estate Voice
- 53- RealEstatUndressed
- 54- Realty Thoughts
- 55- LandJournal
- 56- GeekEstate Blog
- 57- Valparaiso Indiana Home Builder – Northwest Indiana
- 58- Real/diaBlog
- 59- EKDAY
- 60- For Sale By Locals
- 61- Mortgage Insider
- 62 – vFlyer Blog
- 63 – Agent Genius (See you Monday October 15th!)
Benn Rosales is the Founder and CEO of The American Genius (AG), national news network. Before AG, he founded one of the first digital media strategy firms in the nation has received the Statesman Texas Social Media Award and is an Inman Innovator Award winner. He has consulted for numerous startups (both early- and late-stage), and is well known for organizing the digital community through popular offline events. He does not venture into the spotlight often, rather he believes his biggest accomplishments are the talent he recruits and develops, so he gives all credit to those he's empowered.

Larry Cragun
October 13, 2007 at 2:51 pm
You are such a nice citizen to the blogosphere.
Benn Rosales
October 13, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Larry, shhh, you’ll ruin my ‘ruthless’ rep! ha
Sacramento Real Estate Voice
October 30, 2007 at 1:54 am
Hey, have fun with your Carnival. I know I did. There are some articles that come popping in and it’s fun having a theme.
enjoy!
– gena riede