Archive for March, 2009

Paper View Monday: The Daily Times of Farmington, New Mexico »

This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is The Daily Times of Farmington, New Mexico, which, as you know, is in the Four Corners region. Mash your mouse on the picture below to map-fiddle.

Florida Home 109: 2009-03-28, Shakerwood, Wellington »

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Shakerwood in Wellington. DOWNLOAD THE PRINT SECTION Print pages in PDF: Right-click and save-as to download (8.8 MB, 8 pages)

Random picture of my cat, Vol. 110 »

Florida Home: The best local real estate site anywhere in the history of all things »

And we have the giant banner to prove it. And the giant coffee pots. Tomorrow we introduce Florida Home to the local real estate community, with a public launch coming soon. Powered by the platform built for our old Backyard Post concept, built on a foundation of Real Neighborhoods™, and fueled by salsa and awesome, [...]

links for 2009-03-24 »

Cartographica: The Macintosh GIS "Cartographica is a Geographic Information System (GIS) package for the Macintosh. It is used to create, analyze, explore, manipulate and present geospatial data." Could be interesting. Via Steve Doig on NICAR-L. (tags: mapping gis mac software)

Paper View Monday: The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and Edinburgh Evening News »

This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is home to The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News. Why steer the Paper View Monday Zeppelin into foreign airspace for only the fourth time? Primarily because I am extremely worldly, and everyone says so, but also because Google launched Street [...]

Florida Home 108: 2009-03-21, Cocoplum, west of Lake Worth »

The neighborhood of the week real estate feature is about Cocoplum west of Lake Worth. DOWNLOAD THE PRINT SECTION Print pages in PDF: Right-click and save-as to download (10.9 MB, 8 pages)

Random picture of my cat, Vol. 109 »

What’s missing in all the talk about The San Diego Union-Tribune’s sale »

An oblique aerial view of its main office, of course! After all, like just about every metro-size newspapers these days, real estate holdings apparently account for much of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s current value. Fortunately for you, the nation, and frankly much of the free world, the Union-Tribune was featured in Paper View Monday just last summer. Mash [...]

Paper View Monday: The Post-Standard of Syracuse, New York »

This week’s newspaper building as seen in Virtual Earth/Live Search Maps is The Post-Standard of Syracuse, New York. And, as ever when it comes to Advance-owned properties and their confused branding, I have no idea where to link. Syracuse.com? Syracuse.com/poststandard? Post-standard.com? Mash your mouse on the picture below to map-fiddle. And in Google Maps Street [...]