If you missed Hugh MacLeod's keynote at Real Estate Connect in San Francisco earlier this month, here's a clip from RainTV interviewing him about some of the topics covered at the event.

You can check out MacLeod's blog and infamous cartoons at GapingVoid.

Jonathan Miller, president and CEO of Miller Samual in Manhattan and author of Matrix and Soapbox blogs, discusses the housing market and appraisal pressure issues with Brad Inman on Inman TV.

A USA Today article notes that there is no shortage of reality shows focusing on real estate, despite a downturn in the market. Consumers still apparently have quite an appetite for all things real estate, even if there are more looky-loos, window shoppers and armchair enthusiasts these days.

The article includes a sampling of the programming, such as A&E TV's "Flip This House," and "Sell This House,"  DIY Network's "Sweat Equity" and Bravo's "Flipping Out."

Home & Garden Television (HGTV) has a huge lineup of real estate reality shows, including "Bought & Sold," which takes a look at the challenges of real estate agents (see Inman News article).

Other HGTV shows include: "Buy Me," "Designed to Sell,"  "Get It Sold," "House Hunters," "National Open House," "Secrets That Sell," and "My House Is Worth What?"

The Learning Channel (TLC) has its share of real estate shows, too, including: "Flip That House," "My First Home," "Property Ladder," and "The Real Deal" (cast for this show is pictured at left).

Actually, this video is about "What makes a good blog." What did we miss?

Inman News publisher Bradley Inman give us predictions on what's next for real estate. Don't worry, he says, most of what we worry about and think will happen never does.

The latest statistics paint a bleak picture of the real estate market. What do you think, is it that bad or worse than anyone's admitting?

I just finished reading Matt Carter's excellent article, "What Video Companies Have to Offer."  I am stunned that so many people from the video companies reported that Realtors were too cheap to spend the money to produce a video for their listings. WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? I can understand that $2500 for a top-of-the-line video might be out of reach for many agents, but when the prices are down to $100-$300. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. We continue to throw millions at ineffective print advertising, but we won't spend a few hundred dollars to give our buyers and sellers what they want--a video of the property that can be viewed on the web. How can we charge a full commission and ignore a service that allows such amazing presence on the web? Unless your sellers voice security concerns about their property, an HDTV video is a service that every single premium marketing plan should include.

Posted by Bernice Ross

Mega mapping and stats site Neighboroo.com has released some new features, including links for location-specific videos and discussions. Real estate search site Trulia.com is supplying home-price information for Neighboroo and the site also lists Altos Research as a data provider. TurnHere.com is providing video content for the site and the site also accepts user-created location-specific videos.

Neighboroo tracks a variety of housing statistics, including collateral risk (a measure of investment risk in local real estate markets, with data supplied by HomeSmartReports), foreclosures, property taxes, rate of rental vs. ownership, and number of years in residence.

The site also offers stats on schools, crime and natural disasters, environmental quality, weather, income, commute times and unemployment, among other categories.