I don’t normally consider myself an uneducated, closed-minded fool from Virginia, but I just don’t get this, as seen in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The description of this piece said something to this effect, “he painted the canvas white to challenge the notion that creating art was difficult.” What you see is what you think it is – three canvases painted white.Would a blank blog post be a symbol of my rebellion against society’s demand that a quality blog post have “words”?
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My first lead call from Youtube
From this video ad I did six months ago – It sold last month, but the call was a good reminder to check the stats – the video’s been viewed 400 times and elicited one phone call and numerous impressed comments from potential sellers.
Upgraded WP
After testing it on my other blogs, I’ve upgraded Wordpress to 2.2.1. Please let me know if you have any issues.
The death knell for print real estate advertising
Via Bloomberg:Smith, president of Realogy Corp., the largest residential real estate broker in the U.S., said the portion of his Coldwell Banker and Century 21 branding budget devoted to newspapers will shrink by as much as two-thirds next year from 2006 as spending moves online. Newspapers will receive 70 percent of Realogy’s home-sale advertising by 2010, down from 84 percent this year. (bolding mine)Hat Tip to the Real Estate Bloggers.Blogging is personal and effectiveNewspapers are (somewhat) deadUpdate 18 July 2007: But … Google is stepping their print advertising up!
Charlottesville used to be #1
Thanks to Money Magazine for the recap.Since then the city’s population has held fairly steady, although the greater Charlottesville area has seen a boom in residents. MONEY’s was one of the first of a host of best-place listings, followed coincidentally or not — by a near tripling of housing prices in less than a decade. These days a four-bedroom home easily costs $400,000, and that’s before you update the kitchen. In response, city officials have lowered property taxes.By the way, the City (nor the County of Albemarle) hasn’t “lowered taxes.”
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Good and bad Charlottesville lists
The Charlottesville area is a great place to visit for the wine, so says Travel and Leisure.Virginia’s wineries are concentrated in two areas: one near ÂCharlottesville, the other within an hour’s drive of Dulles Airport…. The state had been trading on the grape-growing reputation of noted wine lover Thomas Jefferson for 200 years without producing anything worthy of mention…. And a single meal verified that it should be on the must-visit list of any adventurous wine traveler.Both happened at the same place, Barboursville Vineyards, just outside Charlottesville …Virginia is the Best State for BusinessNot that Virginia did badly–it just didn’t dominate the rankings the way it did last year…. Virginia’s top attributes include an incentive environment that is the fourth-best in the country, according to Pollina Corporate Real Estate, a commercial real estate consulting firm, as well as an unemployment rate that’s the third lowest in the nation.But the Charlottesville MSA apparently is a risky place to get a loan if you’re a minority.Update: the conversation at cvillenews continues to be interesting.