As one of the instigators of some of the re.net April tom-Foolery unleashed on the world today, I thought it only fitting to end the day with a little carnival of my own, before Christine Forgione unleashes the real one tomorrow.

The “Please Say It Ain’t So” prize goes to four winners:

• Noah Rosenblatt claims he’s shutting down his popular New York-city based UrbanDigs blog…
• Mary McKnight tells us Google has changed its algorithm, dropping all blogs with a page rank of 6 or less…
• Christine Forgione has already judged tomorrow’s carnival and awarded all the glory…to herself…
• Kris Berg has decided to run her business as a non-profit, and donate more than 100% of her commissions back to the client. She has even bigger plans for the future, when she may even just buy homes outright for clients. What’s next, joining the Peace Corps?

The “Please Say It IS So” prize goes to Eric Hare, who informs us of Ben Bernanke’s dramatic plan to save the economy. Let’s just say that being a printer or a helicopter pilot may prove quite lucrative.

The “Linguistic Acrobatics” prize goes to Sacramento’s John Lockwood with his intriguing history of the name of Sacramento. Let’s just say that the California Central Valley’s drug problems started long before the current meth epidemic.

The “Trump This” prize goes to two creative pranksters:

• Sellsius claims Donald Trump is getting into the Blog Apprentice thing
• RainCityGuide’s uber-blogger Dustin Luther, in turn, claims he’s snagged the Donald’s apprentice to be his own!

The “See, You Can Make Make Money From Blogging” prize goes to

• Teresa Boardman, whose controversial blog has just been bought by Inman and
• Jay Thompson, who so piqued Google’s curiosity that they just bought him up!

The “April Fools for Dummies” prize goes to Athol Kay, whose wry wit gives us a new bestseller: “Days on Market for Dummies.”

The “Should Have Been April Fools, But Unfortunately Wasn’t” prize goes to those who reported (a few days ago) that Trulia and Zillow had been kicked out of the Prudential conference in San Diego:

• Mike Simonsen of Altos Research
• Sami of Trulia

The “Coordinated Assault Wins Laughs, But No Believers” prize gets shared between

• Greg Tracy of BlueRoof.com
• John Keith of BostonREB.com and
• Me!

Alas, hard as we tried, we couldn’t get a whole lot of people to believe that Redfin had bought Move.com and that Glenn Kelman and Alan Dalton were to become Co-CEO’s.

Finally, I award myself the “Too Much Time On Your Hands” prize for putting together an analysis of the relative evil of two leading re.net bloggers.

Let me know if I’ve missed anybody!

Tags: Carnival of real estate, RE April Fools, Real estate
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