Did you hear the one about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg while he was on his honeymoon...talk about one for the ages. Anyway, Mark and h...

Today's Globe cites a report by the Warren Group that says foreclosure petition filings - the very first step of the foreclosure proces...

     Did you ever have an experience when a non-related sight, sound, event changed or clarified a concept you'd been kicking around i...

Two Hundred and Nine years ago today, May 25 Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston Massachusetts.At the young age of 14 Emerson began his s...

Over the past couple of days I've had several people ask me how to find "our" Southern Middlesex Plans on the Internet. First,...

Back in the olden days when I was a kid, there was a TV show called My Mother the Car . The plot of the show revolved around Attorney David ...

 Let's play a game. I call it " What's His Invention". Here is how it works...I'll give you ten facts about either t...

Ever since the city of Lowell held it's first in recent memory tax lien auction back on April 26, 2012, it seems that quite a few home ...

When we first logged on our computers this morning we had 145 electronic recording payloads waiting for us to process.  Most were assignment...

As someone who recently served on a jury and who also is a regular user of social media, I read with great interest a report in the May 7, 2...

With May half over we can look at the recording statistics for the first two weeks of the month and compare them to the same period last yea...

Last night I wrote about yesterday's meeting of the Registry of Deeds Technology Advisory Committee.  Here are a few additional items t...

Back in 2003, the state legislature created a Technology Fund to be used by the state's registries of deeds to fund new technological in...

Attorney General Martha Coakley has an op-ed in today's Globe about new moves intended to curtail the ongoing foreclosure crisis.  Coak...

We'll take a detour from real estate and technology today to mention my experience yesterday when I was called for jury duty at the Conc...

I am just finishing up a book titled "The New New Thing" by Michael Lewis. One of its major themes is that once something hits b...

The MassLandRecords website which contains all of our digital document images permits users to view images, to print them and to download t...

Last month Facebook purchased Instagram, a popular photo sharing site. The price? a staggering $1 billion! A few years ago I read an article...

I recently ran a report seeking the median sales price of deeds recorded in various communities in this registry district for 2010, 2011 and...

It is hard to think of  a part of our daily lives that has not been changed by the digital world.  Today we own devices that weren't e...