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:
Journalism Day Henry Pringle Lecture
by Nate Silver
I put that together in 25 minutes.