I appear to be now fully blacklisted with commenting on BHB too.

I doubt many of the better BHB writers will remain with BHB through 2008. Swann has proved a couple times now that his defintion of friendship is that he’ll stab you through the chest.

It’s not even a Zebra issue, it is entirely a Greg Swann issue. Drunk on power and encouragement from loyal readers and contributors, Swann is well on his way to jumping the shark and going all Jessica Simpson on us. I started to get frustrated with BHB after every single post became a full one or two page editorial and now it’s dwindled into nothing more than a posting ground for the contributors to read and amuse one another. Greg Swann used to be an important voice in real estate blogging but that engine is all out of steam.

If any blog writer can take anything from the inevitable fall of Greg Swann it should be this: Don’t become drunk with power, forget who you are writing for or start writing novella length entries. Blogs are supposed to be short, easy to read entries that keep people in the know on the subject you write about. If not for Jeff Brown and Brian Brady I would remove BHB from my RSS reader right now. In fact, at this point, I’m not even sure that’s worth keeping it around for when I can just subscribe to their respective blogs.