Nate Silver is one of a kind – an out gay journo who understands numbers. Silver delivered the commencement address to the 2011 Columbia Journalism School, a prestigious institution that could not figure out how to publish his address in HTML. Are you surprised at this kind of middle-aged incompetence at, and contempt for, the medium that put Nate Silver behind Columbia’s podium?
Instead of poking through Columbia’s error-strewn Microsoft Word document, I suggest reading the corrected HTML version of Silver’s address:
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2011.05.23 15:26. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is: http://blog.fawny.org/2011/05/23/natesilver/
Just add /year/month/day/ to the end of site’s URL, blog.fawny.org. You can add just /year/month/, or just /year/, if you wish. Years are four-digit, month and day two-digit (with padding zero below 10). For example: