I’ve been using a little widget on the sidebar of my blog from Amung Us for quite some time that shows the number of visitors currently on the blog. It’s kinda cool. The map above is a new (to me) Amung Us feature that shows…

WordPress v2.3 was released on September 24. Since upgrading WordPress can be a hassle, this blogger tends to lag several versions behind. My blog was running on v2.1.2 and given there were reported security issues with that version, I took the plunge into upgrading. Version…

There has been an explosion of real estate blogging within the last 2 years, and the writing can range from posts that are thoughtful and well-written to those that are mind-blowingly bad. Great writing is hard to achieve, no doubt. It takes time, commitment, a…

What do I mean? Audio and pictures rather than text — check out Sketchcast.com. I agree with the above embedded “sketchcast” that some ideas/concepts of blog posts are definitely better conveyed with graphics/pictures and audio rather than text. I know visual representations help many people…

Saturday morning started out like any other for me. Groggy with my coffee in hand, I checked my e-mail. David Gibbons had forwarded me a link to the now infamous “Leave Realtors Alone” video. I remember thinking to myself how it capped off a great…

We just translated the Geekestate Blog into Japanese with the help of Google and Microsoft. So what does $87 million mean in Japanese ? Well…$87 million! This amount of capital has no language barriers and everyone around the world can understand that Zillow’s $87 million…

Unofficially, there are 1,214,782 blog widgets out there. Some are very cool and useful, others not-so-much. “Blog Rush” is a new widget that (according to them) can drive traffic to your blog: BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their…

My job in Baghdad was a civil affairs team chief with the mission to “improve the governance, economics, and essential services” for my district of Baghdad. As unqualified as I felt to accomplish this mission, I found myself and other captains in this position who,…

Recently Realtor.com announced a free blogging platform is now available for their 1.4 millionish members. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — REALTOR.com, the most comprehensive real estate listings Web site, today announces the introduction of Featured Blog and “Let’s Talk Real Estate!,” a new blogging…

Darren Rowse at ProBlogger published a fantastic post early this morning titled “9 Lessons You Can Learn about Blogging from Watching Me Sell My House.” Darren gives his 1st hand experience of his home being on the market for the last 4 weeks & how…