Om Malik , founder of GigaOM says “blogs are by the people who live in their community and focus on the issues of their community” and therefore listen better than big Media Cos. This is one of the reasons hyper-local real estate blogs do well because they are usually run by agents who intricately knows their target neighborhoods, listen to their local market , and become the voice of he commmunity.

We recently heard about the upcoming REBlogWorld which is organized by Todd Carpenter, founder of dozens of top sites.

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about blogging and more in 3 days. This event will bring together dozens of prominent speakers and leads the 3 day event including the main Blog World Expo from the 20th to the 21st with another huge list of speakers.

Don’t wait , sign up now before August 22nd, for early bird specials.

Trulia is always at the cutting edge of real estate technology and is constantly coming up with great ideas to increase exposure for agents and their homes. They’re at it again and this time with a new housecasting experiment bringing you a live open house all the way from Healdsburg, CA. The listing ( 414 Piper St Healdsburg , CA 95448 )will be brought to you by Pam Buda of Coldwell Banker and Kyle and Rudy of Trulia will be running a spectacular show.

Pam also has lots of details about the property at her own property site and blog at:

http://414piper.winecountryandhorses.com and www.winecountryandhorses.com respectively.

Tune in this Sunday on TruliaBlog.com at 1:00 p.m. to see the latest technology in action.

There will be many…but one that caught our eye was the forthcoming Wordpress mobile blogging app. Here’s a sneak peak: