I've gone from a diet of 0% TV to being addicted to Crossing Jordan. Go figure.

Anyway, every week Nigel, one of the ME's on the show, is always talking about his blog, nigelblog.com. I thought that it was just part of the show, (well, actually it still is...read it, it's all medical examiner speak) but the fact that it really does exist and that they tout it on the show is pretty interesting.

It's one of the better faux blogs that I've seen. YES, there are comments. What's odd, is that it reads like a gaming blog or a mystery solving blog where the commenters are weighing in on the story - which is just a TV show.

Lastly, like most good blogs and websites these days, there's the proper link to the legal stuff.

I don't understand why most realtors don't have better websites. As we're looking for a duplex to buy, I'm appalled at the dismal presence that most realtors have on the web. You know, come to think of it, blogs are the perfect application for realtors. Here's why:

• Current and timely. Your most recent listings at the top, and you can fudge the dates if something is re-listed, to put it back at the top
  
• People can get to know you. To me, all realtors are interchangeable UNTIL YOU MEET THEM or get some idea of who they are. Imagine what a blog could do to put a 'personal touch' on your web presence and forge a relationship with potential home buyers
  
• Categories - this is a built in way to classify your houses by the areas you serve, and, if you use multiple categories, by the type of home of any other classification!
  
• RSS - Holy shit would I love to be able to subscribe to RSS feeds of all of the agents selling homes and duplexes in my areas of interest and price range. Wow, would that make searching easy or what. NO, it would be or what, because it wouldn't be searching anymore, now would it!
  
• Podcasting - realtors could leave a quick voice narrative about the home. Not only could I read them, but I could listen to them. Hell, I'd damn near know them by the time I got around to calling them for a showing!
  
• Search - especially if you were to tie your site in with some Google AdWords and some Verizon Superpages keywords to get the 'intensely local' search crowd
  
• Easy - take your photos, plug em in, post, done.
  
• Photo galleries made easy through blog plugins
  
• You don't need to know code to have 100% control over your site.
  
• Your blog could become a hub for home buyers - have a mortgage person or home inspector do some guest blogging with/for you. You've not just become the most popular agent in the county!
  

C:NET has a comprehensive FAQ for bloggers behind the corporate lines.

So, I've been paring back on the number of blogs that I had in my Movable Type installation to clean things out a bit. Deleting blogs is a pretty significant thing. What's interesting though is that the MT log is supposed to capture "notable events" that happen on the blog (searches, logins, etc.) but it does not capture blog deletions. That's odd, I'd have thought that deleting a blog would be a pretty damn notable thing, wouldn't you?

Seriously, besides the birth of a blog, it's death is probably the most significant other event.

Don't be too alarmed - these were only internal blogs that ran various sections of the site...nothing that will be noticable from the outside world.