Lowell Deeds

This morning the Boston Globe ran an article on Foreclosure filings in Massachusetts. Normally, I would jump on this as a perfect topic for today’s blog…but the mashup map used by the Globe in this article impressed me more than the statistics. This is the second well thought-out, informative mashup the Globe has used in the past week. Last week the results of the governor’s race were depicted on a map listing voting tallies in every community in Massachusetts. It was a wonderful tool for political junkies (like me) to analyze the race. Oh yeah, the foreclosure stats… according to ForeclosuresMass.com filings in Massachusetts increased by 54% in the first nine months of 2006…and urban areas such as Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn had more filings per 10,000 people than suburban areas… But…check out the map…it’s great.