Zillow’s Zindex does not include recent home sales, yet it professes to be a reliable indicator of home values.
From Zillow’s May 6, 2008 Press Release:
Home values in the first quarter of 2008 fell 1.6 percent from the fourth quarter and 7.7 percent from the year-ago quarter, marking the most significant year-over-year decline in the past […]
Archive for May, 2008
The Zindex Illusion or How to Sell A Housing Report Without Using Actual Home Sales
Published by May 12th, 2008 in zillow. 18 CommentsTo mothers everywhere, Happy Mothers’ Day!
Did you know it’s the 100th anniversary of the official celebration of Mothers’ Day? Somebody did.
[Image: Inside album photo from The Mothers of Invention’s We’re Only in It for the Money. (1968 Verve) ]
I was always surprised when we were asked for an interview. What the heck did we know about anything. I just went with my gut and whatever tickled my fancy I posted. I tried to tie it to real estate but often the connections were pretty flimsy. What the hay, I thought, if I like […]
I’m not sure when I started doing Selltoons, but here are a few I like. As you can see, I have virtually no photoshopping skills (I use Microsoft PictureIt and Paint.net) and rely on the caption to make a point. Sometimes it works. See more Selltoons here.
Rudy added Alan Dalton, which was a […]
Flashback: Blogging From New York to San Francisco
Published by May 8th, 2008 in Marketing tips. 1 CommentWe started Blog Tour USA officially on July 2, 2007 at a rooftop party with Jon Washburn, Caleb Mardini, Phil de Video and some other rowdy bloggers in Manhattan.
We hit the road toward San Francisco the next morning heading north to Boston (yeah, I know it’s not west, but we had to see some blog […]
I got the germ of the idea after attending a Problogger Meet Up in Manhattan and talking to Darren Rowse– straight from the UK, it was his first visit to NYC. I thought, wouldn’t it be great to just bounce around the country meeting other bloggers. I kicked the idea around with Rudy […]
It was a blogging experiment. What would happen if we stopped posting? Stopped leaving comments. Simply vanished. Would anybody notice? Hmm…let’s find out– so we put up this image from the Matrix with the headline: There is No Spoon. Some folks did notice. I went crazy not being able […]
It all started with my email to Ryan Block of Engadget on the Fourth of July, 2006 (yeah, July 4th). He answered it and the next day the shitake hit the fan when Engadget ran the story.
The developer received thousands of objections and pleas, worldwide, to save the Bell Labs landmark in Holmdel, NJ. […]
In January 2007 we made some blogging predictions. I found prediction #8 interesting.
Want to know the state of the blogos in 2007? We have no idea but this is what a Times Square fortune teller told us:
1. Every website will have a blog. After hearing this, we demanded our money back. […]
My guide to blogging. I sent to Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void and he asked permission to publish it. That was a thrill– rubbing elbows with the A-listers.
Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid is a man after my own heart— bright, witty, satirical, profound with humility & humor. Plus, his drawings make me […]
