Facebook has bowled over the world’s biggest publishers with math and money. It is a classic ploy, long utilized by savvy young technology companies to make stodgy old industries commit to a Faustian bargain.
Pinterest is at a similar place to where Facebook was in 2007 and Twitter in 2010. The direction it chooses will greatly shape what type and size of company it becomes.
This is true. The story here isn't so much the responsive bit, but how we built this beautiful if slightly complicated site (that doesn't LOOK complicated) with nothing but the Wordpress structure.
No PR person drove me to write this article. To tell you the truth, it was respect for Nate Silver. I have been following his work since he started PECOTA at Baseball Prospectus. I have barely read any other articles other than a few passing headlines about the hubbub with Scarborough but I figured it would be a decent time to touch on the subject, with his model being critiqued seemingly from all sides. For his baseball work, I am fond of the approach that Silver takes, and his record at politics using similar methods has proven efficient, worth comment. No PR person reached out to me, I was not influenced by other articles outside of what I could see myself on FiveThirtyEight and I have no political agenda. I can speak for no other author, but I wrote this because it was topical and timely and it struck me as an interesting subject.