Here's a recent exchange on HP:
Whose got the best housing bubble blog? HP or Housing Bubble 2? I have been leaning toward HP, for snappy graphics, frequent updates, and sheer exuberant outrageousness. But you have to like what HB2 is doing in putting the media's feet to the fire. Good stuff from both.
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Housing Bubble 2 is too heavy in content, and takes itself too seriously, but it generates healthy and consistent debate (think The Economist). HP has better graphics and lighthearted quips, but oftentimes chooses fluff instead of substance (think USA Today). Both do a fine job of informing readers - a perfect housing bubble blog would contain the content of HB 2 and the pictures of HP.
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Note that Housingbubble2 hasn't added HousingPanic to its blog roll after all this time, which is pretty poor form. Ben probably doesn't want his readers to spend more time over here. Too bad - I gladly link to his blog. It's a bit dry and hey, no pictures! but I still think Ben does a very good job.
March 14, 2006
HP Readers (and Housingbubble2 readers) you pick - who's got the best bubble blog?
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Hi Keith,
I love both youse guys! I think of Ben at thehousingbubbleblog as Joe Friday - "Just the facts, maam!" Major journalistic work to boot, scraping up every story where some realtor or lender or other industry insider opens his trap and lets the cat out of the bag. Great stuff.
Here, I find stories with a different angle. I don't want to call this place the National Enquirer of the housing bubble because this blog is a cut above that, but the stories here have a bit more variety. Some have a human angle to them. You even reported on the SoCalMtgGuy, which is great, reporting about other blogs! Stories that hypothesize that a former White House advisor was unable to make his $1 million mortgage payment on his $161K salary. Woo hoo! You won't find a story like that over at thehousingbubbleblog very often. Some stories here talk about bubbles in other countries. A sample letter to the editor that says "good god we are screwed"? LOL!
On my own housing bubble blog, I found it a headache to try to maintain links to other blogs on my own blog. Since my blog was sort of designed to go along with my bearish website, it made sense to create a page of all the housing bubble blogs I could find and then link to that page from the blog.
Cheers,
Susan
HP is alot more fun to read, It gets to the subject quickly without tons of reading. HB2 is too microscopic on everything and the blogs are full of people talking to one another as if they were on the telephone, and too many people bragging about how much money they made on thier house. I always start the day with your blog and then move on to others.
I read both of your blogs daily in addition to Patrick's Site, Bubble Meter and Most Overvalued. All of you do a great job of informing the public and I for one think you are Great Americans.
Overvalued does a great job of hounding realtors, they need it. I have to give him hats off for being bold.
I hope Ben reads this post because I think he should link your site. I post a lot at his place.
I have not set up a user name here but I do post on most sites, just call me Any Mouse for now..
This is why I like HB2 better....check out this recent exchange on HP:
Keith writes...
"It's official. 15% of the people who agree with this blog are smart. Only dumb people don't share in the special view that the chosen few have."
Joe Zychik said...
Is this a blog about a housing bubble or a blog about dumping on people who don't share your view?
Keith said...
yup, it's a blog about dumping on people who don't share my view.
geesh, figured you would have figured that out by now
Very petty and near-sighted (kind of like the National Enquirer or USA Today)
I read both you guys every day. Your pix are the best, I know I've LOLed many times.
There's something goofy about the new software he's using at HB2, half the threads have some HTML foul-up that makes things type on top of each other or become all italics.
I agree that there's a little too much shmoozing over at HB2. I like the idea of adding constructive directly-related info in a post, but song parodies &c are getting a little "beyond the scope of this exercise" as they say in the math books.
And if it were up to me, politics would be banned. Plenty of other places to bash or cheer the President.
I like HP better. The graphics are often hilarious, and yes, HB2 has way too many political fanatics who can't stick to the subject. Last week, the conspiracy loons were out in force spreading rumors.
HB2's yappers DO brag incessantly about their money, don't they? Makes me suspect it's all hooey.
And they do chat with each other, endlessly, as if they have nothing else to do all day long. Makes me suspect they're all computer geeks pretending.
Housing Panic is the best! The very, very bestest!!!! I love it! Four stars!! Two Thumbs Up!
HB2 by far; I want to know what is going on not what some blogger's opinion is. HP sometimes has quality content.
You too guys were the best !!!
I think People need some dose of reality in the Real Estate market !!!
My friends were moving to WOODLANDS, HOUSTON, TEXAS and buying speculative houses... 100% cheaper than the East coast house prices... can you check on this new speculative area ?
I like this blog. I like how Keith puts a comedic spin on the current housing news topics. Plus I can relate to him being from Phoenix, as like Vegas, both are up sh*t creek when it comes to housing and won't admit it. I like it enough that I tolerate the leftist slant.
I like the pictures on HP.
I'd like to get away from the non-stop Bush bashing and always pending economic doom and gloom that is a pall over everything else.
Keith, make it a little less political (how could Bush know his aide was stealing from Target?). Otherwise you have my vote for best blog on the net.
You cannot have a versus match between the two sites, IMHO. You both have great blogs for different reasons even though you have a common trend.
Don't be upset from not getting linked from his site. Ben hasn't changed his link list ever since I began reading in October as far as I could see.
Both blogs are great. Keith, your humor is great, and your choice of pictures are often hilarious.
There's plenty of room for both styles (yours and Ben's)...and your readership will increase almost as fast as listings are piling up in Phoenix.
PS***Sometimes I learn as much or more from comments on both blogs, so I don't mind wading thru all the chatter...there are some truly astute people who have clarified many economic mysteries for me.
Reading these two blogs (as well as several others) is infinately more education and wide-ranging than reading yet another press release from NAR!
housing bubble 2 is much better...the owner of housing panic is some limey with little education...his commentary is very trivial...not the sharpest tool in the shed...but i will give him an A for effort...he seems to scour the web and other blogs to consolidate housing news...
i am in favor of a steel-cage death match where one or the other blogger will deal THE PEOPLE'S ELBOW to the other and settle this thing as civilized men.
I think this post just goes to show that this blog is about the author's ego more than anything else.
Both blogs feed different appetites. I can't choose between vanilla and strawberry and chocolate. Sometimes I want one, sometimes the other, sometimes all three.
I still haven't figured out how to post on his site, so yours is way better. I guess the other one requires you to go somewhere to register or something... no clue. This is way easier and the pics are hillarious.
thanks all for your comments - even the negative ones
and yes, HP has an ego (major, major ego), a point of view, and a message. why else would someone blog?
as to political slant, for the republican bush-is-god crowd - being anti bush policy, and calling the administration out for its mistakes does NOT, definitely NOT, make someone a democrat or leftie. If the emperor is not wearing pants, then I'm the first to say - hey, look, the emperor is not wearing any damn pants!
Hillary Clinton sucks. Joe Biden sucks. Dick Cheney sucks. Bush sucks. Get it? I'm holding out for Evan Bayh and John McCain. So far they haven't sucked.
I'll focus even more on the humor of the situation - what's happened to our country and our finances is truly funny, laugh out loud can you believe it funny. then you cry.
You'll also be getting a dose of world events here, and I'm continuing to try to figure out how all the pieces go together - bubble, china, bush, fed, wal-mart, globalism, gold, dollar, britney spears.
and a picture is worth a 1000 words - loyal USA Today reader here for sure ($1.70 a day over here!)
Anyone want to post over at Ben's blog to link to HousingPanic, you'd be my hero. I think he feels threatened. But I'd be the first to tell people to go to his blog myself.
Cheers all - thanks for reading, and thanks for the feedback
Now I'm off to find some funny pictures
Ben has the best blog for content, but YOURS is the funniest, and that makes it a daily visit!
Patrick has the best link section.
So I look at it as a stool with 3 legs, so my fat ass can sit down and read what the hell is going on!
Ben has the best blog for content, but YOURS is the funniest, and that makes it a daily visit!
Patrick has the best link section.
So I look at it as a stool with 3 legs, so my fat ass can sit down and read what the hell is going on!
Kieth is the best. From time to time he will borrow my thoughts. That makes him right some of the time.
dogcrap - give me your final four - gonna put the bets in tonight
As a Banker I disagree with only having 2 contestants, as if you look pound for pound I get more varied data and support from Patrick.Net
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