Comments on: The Walk-through Walked Away, But Not Out http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851 Interpreting the Real Estate Economy Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:56:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Coruscation http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851&cpage=1#comment-28092 Coruscation Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:44:21 +0000 http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851#comment-28092 <p>Just as theie real estate blog folds, their Real Estate magazine spawns.</p> <p>http://www.nytimes.com/pages/realestate/key/index.html</p> Just as theie real estate blog folds, their Real Estate magazine spawns.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/realestate/key/index.html

]]> By: Sandy Mattingly http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851&cpage=1#comment-28078 Sandy Mattingly Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:32:56 +0000 http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851#comment-28078 <p>Interesting point by Larry C today (“The Walk-thru was all over the place, it was not focused on NY, Brooklyn, LA. Why do I care what happened in Oregon last week? I had to skip through tons of crap to find the New York blogs.”), which I think is true of the paper NYT newspaper coverage of real estate, as well.</p> <p>I am not talking so much about the articles that are explicitly about someplace other than NYC (as so many in The Times are). But when they do a “general” article about real estate practices or issues, they usually fail completely to provide the Manhattan-centric angle that (most of) their readers would want. For example, they will often refer to MLSs without noting that Manhattan does not have a MLS. So "the point" will have limited (or no) relevance to Manhattan.</p> <p>But that’s another issue, for another medium. I hope they re-think the whole RE blog possibilities and try again in a few months. With their resources, it <em>should</em> be terrific.</p> Interesting point by Larry C today (“The Walk-thru was all over the place, it was not focused on NY, Brooklyn, LA. Why do I care what happened in Oregon last week? I had to skip through tons of crap to find the New York blogs.”), which I think is true of the paper NYT newspaper coverage of real estate, as well.

I am not talking so much about the articles that are explicitly about someplace other than NYC (as so many in The Times are). But when they do a “general” article about real estate practices or issues, they usually fail completely to provide the Manhattan-centric angle that (most of) their readers would want. For example, they will often refer to MLSs without noting that Manhattan does not have a MLS. So “the point” will have limited (or no) relevance to Manhattan.

But that’s another issue, for another medium. I hope they re-think the whole RE blog possibilities and try again in a few months. With their resources, it should be terrific.

]]> By: Dan Green http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851&cpage=1#comment-28062 Dan Green Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:43:25 +0000 http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851#comment-28062 <p>One thing that the now-defunct blog did very well was link to third-party blogs for content and depth. The writers understood their blogs place in the Blog Universe.</p> <p>Months ago, Hot Property suffered from the same malaise as Damon, Joyce and the others. Posts were sporadic and the content was numbing. Lately, they've improved on that.</p> <p>Big Media can blog, but they need to WANT to blog (and by "they" I mean the <em>writers</em>, not the paper). If the passion is lacking, the blog falls by the wayside.</p> <p>As the author of this terrific blog, you should know that better than anybody. If your heart's not in it, your readers will see that and probably never visit you again.</p> <p>Successful bloggers exist as one of two characters: comprehensive aggregator of news found elsewhere, or provider of insightful opinion and rhetoric.</p> <p>Maybe "incitefull" is a better choice of words! ;-)</p> <p>Farewell, The Walk-Through... We hardly knew ye.</p> One thing that the now-defunct blog did very well was link to third-party blogs for content and depth. The writers understood their blogs place in the Blog Universe.

Months ago, Hot Property suffered from the same malaise as Damon, Joyce and the others. Posts were sporadic and the content was numbing. Lately, they’ve improved on that.

Big Media can blog, but they need to WANT to blog (and by “they” I mean the writers, not the paper). If the passion is lacking, the blog falls by the wayside.

As the author of this terrific blog, you should know that better than anybody. If your heart’s not in it, your readers will see that and probably never visit you again.

Successful bloggers exist as one of two characters: comprehensive aggregator of news found elsewhere, or provider of insightful opinion and rhetoric.

Maybe “incitefull” is a better choice of words! ;-)

Farewell, The Walk-Through… We hardly knew ye.

]]> By: Larry C http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851&cpage=1#comment-28043 Larry C Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:27:00 +0000 http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851#comment-28043 <p>The blog failed because it didn't do what blogs are supposed to do, foster conversation amongst a community. The Walk-thru was all over the place, it was not focused on NY, Brooklyn, LA. Why do I care what happened in Oregon last week? I had to skip through tons of crap to find the New York blogs. And if you do make a blog national, you need to first speak to your local audience then shout out to everyone else. Its so simple, they just overshot their load - they need to redo the blog in the same manner that they make the metro section, which is localized for Westchester, CT, Long Island, etc. In Miami you don't get a metro section if you buy the Times. That's all -</p> The blog failed because it didn’t do what blogs are supposed to do, foster conversation amongst a community. The Walk-thru was all over the place, it was not focused on NY, Brooklyn, LA. Why do I care what happened in Oregon last week? I had to skip through tons of crap to find the New York blogs. And if you do make a blog national, you need to first speak to your local audience then shout out to everyone else. Its so simple, they just overshot their load – they need to redo the blog in the same manner that they make the metro section, which is localized for Westchester, CT, Long Island, etc. In Miami you don’t get a metro section if you buy the Times. That’s all -

]]> By: John K http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851&cpage=1#comment-27961 John K Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:36:36 +0000 http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851#comment-27961 <p>I thought it could have ended up being quite good, but the lack of posts hurt it, severely. And, there wasn't much new news there, even though the Times must be sitting on "gloms" of stories, every day.</p> <p>Joyce Cohen's blog could be fun and interesting, since she writes such a great article in each Sunday's Times, but she never updates it, making it worthless. Well, she updates it, but mostly just to push her Sunday column.</p> I thought it could have ended up being quite good, but the lack of posts hurt it, severely. And, there wasn’t much new news there, even though the Times must be sitting on “gloms” of stories, every day.

Joyce Cohen’s blog could be fun and interesting, since she writes such a great article in each Sunday’s Times, but she never updates it, making it worthless. Well, she updates it, but mostly just to push her Sunday column.

]]> By: Sandy Mattingly http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851&cpage=1#comment-27954 Sandy Mattingly Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:44:33 +0000 http://matrix.millersamuel.com/?p=851#comment-27954 <p>I don’t remember the details of the different stages of The Walk Through; I just remember it all as being pretty lame. They took all the prestige of The Old Grey Lady to generate oodles of incoming links, then they pissed it all away.</p> <p>No offense to the other nominees (<em>especially</em> not you or Urban Digs) but when Inman nominated The Walk Through for ‘most innovative blog’ I thought they were just sucking up.</p> <p>What a lost opportunity. They could have been a contender, but they threw it away -- without even the drama of Terry Malloy.</p> I don’t remember the details of the different stages of The Walk Through; I just remember it all as being pretty lame. They took all the prestige of The Old Grey Lady to generate oodles of incoming links, then they pissed it all away.

No offense to the other nominees (especially not you or Urban Digs) but when Inman nominated The Walk Through for ‘most innovative blog’ I thought they were just sucking up.

What a lost opportunity. They could have been a contender, but they threw it away — without even the drama of Terry Malloy.

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