What Became Of The Houssee Award?
Posted by John Lockwood on July 16th, 2008
It’s been a few weeks since we’ve done a Houssee Award article anywhere, so I thought I’d discuss why in the context of my experiences in launching this yet-another-Digg-clone real estate site.
The discussion is fabulously short, really, and my experience boils down to having too high an expectation for what would happen. The premise of the site was that the community of real estate authors would visit the site and vote on their favorite content, and those votes would be the basis of the award.
As it unfolded, however, very few people were interested in reading or promoting content that wasn’t their own. A few folks did, and I’m grateful to those who did. But the vast majority of users were only interested in promoting their own content. That’s fine, such as it is. It’s certainly one of the reasons Digg based sites are so popular. But as it turned out, there weren’t enough people interested in anyone else’s content to sustain a user-voted award by any reasonable definition.
I’m not saying that such a thing won’t miraculously start to happen, and if it does, we can get the award ball rolling again. But I don’t expect it to.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I don’t really see many votes. I do try and read a few of the posts on the site when I put up a few of my own. I would say time wise it’s just so hard to read and remember to vote on more than a couple every so often. Heck I don’t even think to get mine up there that often. I think it is a really good idea it just needs more eyeballs or maybe the eyeballs are there and it needs more of us voting.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:02 am
One more thought. When I click on a post to read it: it takes me off the Houssee site. I have to then remember to go back to it. Is there an easy way to have the links open in a new window? Would that get more people to vote?