Nearly 1 of 5 Florida homes are vacant

Here's a sobering statistic about the housing crash and subsequent financial mini-polcalypse. Florida, the hardest-hit state in the real estate market, has a vacancy rate in housing stock of nearly 18%, or 1.6 million homes. (Arizona is not ... continue

The new “ghost towns”

Far from the kind that bring madcap Brady Bunch adventures, the NY Times recently commissioned a series on "the ruins of the second gilded age." Since the real estate market began tanking in the US, tales of modern ... continue

Could This Economic Downturn Be The Best Thing To Happen To Web 2.0?

Mark Evans put it more kindly than I would when he said in a post this morning that "Seesmic illustrates the ugly side of the Web 2.0 landscape". Mark's point being that there are a lot of ... continue