Nate Silver, whose super popular politics blog FiveThirtyEight is leaving the New York TimesĀ (s NYT) and becoming a separate site at ESPN, did a podcast with Bill Simmons. Silver calls the… Read more »
Don’t expect a revamped FiveThirtyEight right away: Nate Silver’s political blog will be hosted by the New York Times through the end of August, and it could be months before ESPN… Read more »
In its new home at ESPN, Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight will remain a separate site with verticals devoted to topics like weather and education. Read more »
At Structure:Data, DataXu showed off its technology in the form of a writhing map of colors that reflected consumer sentiment to cell phone promotions. In practice, this means that a phone… Read more »
ESPN’s promoting The Sports Guy. I’m a fan – and not just because I went to school in Boston. Here’s an example of mainstream media building a business off of user-generated… Read more »
Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back — that, plus not only he can be snarky as all… Read more »