Taxonomy — The who’s whom of real estate weblogging
Here’s a true fact: Monitoring the proliferation of weblogs in the RE.net is like trying to take a census in a tide pool. At the end of a good day’s work, you’re farther behind than when you started. Dozens of new real estate weblogs are born every week. Weblogging is hard work, so many of these new blogs will perish, but some will become bright new stars in the firmament. Keeping track of them is a chore.
BloodhoundBlog maintains a potentially-canonical list of real estate weblogs — which becomes less potentially-canonical every day. There are other weblogs who are trying to stay on top of the growth of the RE.net. Among them:
There is also an emerging taxonomy of real estate weblogs, to try to sort the vast number of blogs into meaningful, manageable categories.
Each of these efforts is noble and laudable, even if progressively more futile. Perhaps the best catalog of the RE.net is not a catalog at all but a search engine. Todd Carpenter of Lenderama built REMBEX, a customized Google search of hundreds of real estate weblogs. It is possible to add REMBEX searching to your own weblog, which is recommended.
