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LA Times real estate blog folds
November 18th, 2009, 1:50 pm · 28 Comments · posted by Jon Lansner
The “LA Land” real estate blog from our pals at the Los Angeles Times is no more. It’s a victim,so to speak, of a consolidation strategy where most business content will appear in one giant financial blog. LA Land’s last post reads …
LA Land has moved to a bigger, brighter, newer home. You can now find it in our Money & Company blog. You will still be able to find all the real estate news, foreclosures, and Hot Property pieces, but now in our uber-business blog.
- Says my old pal, Russ Stanton, editor of the Los Angeles Times …
We aren’t killing it, we’re merging with other business-related blogs. It’s a strategy that we have had a great deal of success with, gang blogging (see LA Now, Fabulous Forum or Hero Complex, named best blog at Online News Association this year). Three years ago, with a bunch of single-author blogs, only 4% of our site traffic came from our blogosphere. Today, it’s 20%.
- One comment on the final LA Land post seemed most special:
I’ll miss you LALand. You were a great blog and I’ll definitely miss the musings of Pete, Pete, Lauren, Beef, Nelciso,Cal, and even Lefty. It is funny how, just like real folks during the recession, LALand is going to be bunking with friends (Petruno) to cut costs. Farewell.
- We’ll also note a story at LAObserved:
The latest Los Angeles Times blog to fade away is L.A. Land, which never seemed to quite recover its mojo from last year’s departure of originator Peter Viles. When real estate reporter Peter Hong left the paper last month on a buyout, the blog became less necessary. Now what’s left of the real estate news and observations has been folded into Money and Company, the main blog produced by the paper’s business writers. … Back in April, based on these stats, L.A. Land was doing way better than most Times blogs.
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Wow, that’s really a pity…
One less blog…
hmmm, too bad…..
really….
And yet you post on a blog every day.
Yes, I do. But, if all blogs magically (or mercifully) disappeared, we’d all be better off.
But the bears need a voice to get the “truth” out.
My realtor minions speacialize is masochistic circular reasoned behavior. Bring me another debt slave or to the dungeons you go.
Why?
It’s understandable. Real estate had it’s day. It’s passe.
During the boom, LA Land was definitely more active. I guess people don’t like discussing how much they lost when “leverage” results in a huge loss.
shockg’s bottom call in December 2007 will finally be erased from existence.
Shockg has been an obedient servant, turning bottom calling into an art. Now that I think about it, he is also adroit at killing bunnies whom he regards as domicile pets. An ounce of loyalty is worth two ounces of stupidity, shockg is one of a kind.
don’t forget his post regarding his fascination about rants’ foolishpleasures involving young children.
How, could we forget that? You won’t stop reminding us, rants!
hey sicko, who has the fascination with young children?
shockg - I am just referring to what you said. your words, not mine.
How many times have you brought it up now? Sicko.
again, your words
Never read the times, no big loss Mr. Lasner on the other hand is the only contributor here with anything fit to print.
Kudos to the Darwin effect my good man.
Are you saying this blog descended from apes??
Or some other dark, furry animal that lives in caves and sleeps a lot???
(and I don’t mean Michael Moore).
Oh well, talley ho!
You’ve developed a viable sense of humor though all this .. .
badda-boom…
La land’s most loyal readers were angry renters. Once the market turned, they turned on the blog.
All shockg can do is mumble about angry renters regardless of what an article is about and regardless of what someone else might say. What a bitter, jealous person. All he can do is bash people who didn’t buy at the peak like he did to try to make himself feel better for being a complete idiot.
I rest my case.
Funny since you never had a case to begin with.
“case closed” - shockg loses, again.
im just here for the doosh-baggery. its better here on OCR.
(i guess we cant use the D word anymore? :( it got filtered out.)
yeah, that gets filtered out but anyone can hijack your screen name. A joke of an operation.
Gang blogging? what a horrible term.