Posted on 08/18/2005 7:42:48 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Information Reformation
It's speeding up and conservatives are still coming out on top.
by Hugh Hewitt
08/18/2005 12:00:00 AM
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No mention of LGF? :-O
wow powerlineblognews.com
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(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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From the Los Angeles Times business section:
The nation's second-largest real estate brokerage is expected to announce today a plan to pool all U.S. residential property listings on its website, a move that would create a formidable national competitor to industry-backed Realtor.com.The move by Re/Max International Inc. also could eventually help reduce consumers' costs of buying and selling homes, as competition with other Web-based brokerages heats up.
Online real estate companies and consumer advocates have long complained about the real estate industry's efforts to limit access to property listings on the Internet. They see it as an attempt to thwart competition from Web-based upstarts, which typically charge lower commissions or charge referral fees.
Read the whole thing. No announcement at the Re/Max site yet. This is a huge story, but I doubt most news organizations will realize it.
Information monopolies simply cannot survive the internet age and the new consumer's demand for transparency. Re/Max is wise to brand itself as unafraid to provide its customers with facts.
The other implication is for businesses, like newspapers, that have depended on real estate advertising. Yesterday many folks, me included, linked to LAWeekly's Nikki Finke's report that Hollywood is preparing to drastically reduce advertising in newspapers.
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Borrowing a ping list I set up for other purposes for this, but thought this would be of general interest.
Bubble, what bubble?
I'm surprized considering that cutting edge sites like ArsTechnica and Slashdot (well... they WERE impressive years ago) are overrun with liberal teens and 20-somethings, many of whom are technical experts in computers and web-based applications. Conservatives are always modded down at these sites, except for the gun crowd which seems to prevail as an exception.
Thanks for the links.
After some centuries, however, print media was again controlled by the old established institutions. How long before Matt Drudge starts promoting false National Guard records, instead of exposing them....
I'm glad we're winning the information war, but how many freakin' times can he keep writing the same damn article?
Able Danger Data Not Shared In A Reliable Form ~Tom Kean wants quick assessment of the data
It's his Blog....
"a move that would create a formidable national competitor to industry-backed Realtor.com."
They probably will fair well once the systems and databases are up and running. The world is tuned in. Just the Oil Shieks alone looking to buy up homes will make em a buck or two.
The Mainstream Media Bubble is about to burst.
PowerLineBlog, aaaaaaaahhhhh, one more site to ruin our eyes. I wonder if Freepers ever look outside windows at natural light. Hey where the heck are my glasses at.
Isn't that the truth? Every time I drop in to DU for a peek I have to head straight for the showers. What a vile disgusting profane bunch.
I got out today....went for a decent drive thru the hills and then back down to the beach .
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