Nate Silver

Notes From The Personal Democracy Forum: Talks About Social Media, Transparency and Government - Posted June 29, 2009
Today and tomorrow, FishbowlNY will be reporting from the Personal Democracy Forum, a conference that focuses on the intersection of politics and technology. This morning, after a keynote from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (in which he revealed that his home phone number was listed in the phone book for many years... [FishBowlNY]

Notes From The Personal Democracy Forum: Talks About Social Media, Transparency and Government - Posted June 29, 2009
Today and tomorrow, FishbowlNY will be reporting from the Personal Democracy Forum, a conference that focuses on the intersection of politics and technology. This morning, after a keynote from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (in which he revealed that his home phone number was listed in the phone book for many years... [FishBowlNY]

Eric Garcetti is Given 2009 "40 Under 40" Award - Posted June 18, 2009
Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti was one of the recipients of New Leaders Council 2009 "40 Under 40" Award. About the "40 Under 40" Awards The 40 Under 40 Awards was created by New Leaders Council (www.newleaderscouncil.org) to help recognize the hard work of a diverse group of young leaders including... [FishBowlLA]

Eric Garcetti is Given 2009 "40 Under 40" Award - Posted June 18, 2009
Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti was one of the recipients of New Leaders Council 2009 "40 Under 40" Award. About the "40 Under 40" Awards The 40 Under 40 Awards was created by New Leaders Council (www.newleaderscouncil.org) to help recognize the hard work of a diverse group of young leaders including... [FishBowlLA]

Awards, Panel & DC Journo A-Listers At The Week's Opinion Awards - Posted April 28, 2009
There were more than plenty DC journos on hand last night at the St. Regis Hotel to see David Axelrod introduce David Brooks as The Week's Columnist of the Year Award. The dinner was emceed by The Week's Washington editor-at-large Margaret Carlson and Axelrod was the guest speaker. "You're what the... [FishBowlDC]

Awards, Panel & DC Journo A-Listers At The Week's Opinion Awards - Posted April 28, 2009
There were more than plenty DC journos on hand last night at the St. Regis Hotel to see David Axelrod introduce David Brooks as The Week's Columnist of the Year Award. The dinner was emceed by The Week's Washington editor-at-large Margaret Carlson and Axelrod was the guest speaker. "You're what the... [FishBowlDC]

Morning Reading List 04.09.09 - Posted April 9, 2009
Good morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line. Its day 80 covering the Obama administration and week ten for us. What we know and what we're reading this Thursday morning... NEWSPAPERS | TV |... [FishBowlDC]

Nate Silver Got the Oscars Wrong...Well 40% or so Wrong - Posted February 23, 2009
Nate Silver used his big brain to predict the Oscars and got a couple wrong, namely Best Actor and Supporting Actress. Uhm, if it starts raining frogs or something - we are so out of here. Anyway, he explains on his blog: Instead, whenever we make an incorrect prediction, we are probably better off... [FishBowlLA]

Nate Silver Predicts the Oscars - Posted February 19, 2009
The Oracle of the 2008 Election, math genius, object of the Facebook group "There's a 97.3 Percent Chance That Nate Silver Is Totally My Boyfriend", FiveThirtyEight.com's Nate Silver (seen to the left after we tracked him down at the HuffPo pre-inauguration party in DC) has turned his talents to the monumentally... [FishBowlLA]

Al Franken Wins...A Senate Seat! - Posted January 5, 2009
Al Franken looks to the winner of the in Minnesota senate race with Norm Coleman. And yes, Nate Silver predicted as much. Well, it's about time a comedian could parlay those skills to gainful employment - or at least a decent health care plan. Yay dental! Anyway, incumbents need to watch their... [FishBowlLA]

Our Final List Round-Up of 2008! - Posted December 31, 2008
More lists! Maybe itemizing things makes the terrible year media we just suffered easier to bear. Also it's a fun way to fill the time between now and opening the champagne. Anyway, here's the final installment: Rex Sorgatz has put together a very smart list of this year's most... [FishBowlNY]

Election Oracle, Nate Silver Projects Win for Franken - Posted November 24, 2008
Nate Silver, the guy that predicted the election better than anyone else, now says that it's likely that Al Franken will win the recount of the Senate race in Minnesota. He even shows his work here: In addition, the regression analysis contains interaction terms between each combination of two variables, as well as... [FishBowlLA]

Post Election News Slump Hitting Politico, TheAtlantic.com Thriving - Posted November 21, 2008
There's been plenty of talk the last few weeks about a post-election viewer slump both online and on television. Over at 538.com Nate Silver has taken his pollster powers and applied them to politically-oriented websites to see how these sites are faring now that the election has concluded. The results... [FishBowlNY]

Number 285, Why We Love Nate Silver - Posted November 19, 2008
Wicked smart numbers dude Nate Silver interviewed our local ex-KFI blowhard John Ziegler about his new project...something about how everyone is wrong but him and people who agree with him. Anyway, the whole interview is worth a read but here's our favorite: NS: Well, since you're running a website calling people misinformed, I'd... [FishBowlLA]

Arianna Huffington Hosts The Rachel Maddow Show - Posted November 18, 2008
Arianna Huffington subbed in for Rachel Maddow on her show last night (as for any previous bad blood incurred between Arianna and MSNBC? According to TVNewser, it's all water under the bridge). In this segment she talks to Google's Eric Schmidt about Barack Obama and the Internet presidency —... [FishBowlNY]

Exploring Huffington's MSNBC Guest Hosting Gig - Posted November 17, 2008
As first reported on TVNewser, Arianna Huffington will guest host The Rachel Maddow Show tonight on MSNBC. Huffington writes about some of the guests being lined up, including Bill Maher, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and FiveThirtyEight.com's Nate Silver. But the idea of Huffington guest hosting on MSNBC has raised some eyebrows and generated... [TVNewser]

Morning Reading List, 11.17.08 - Posted November 17, 2008
Good morning Washington. What D.C. coffee shop is featured in the above picture? Think you know? Drop us an email and we'll give you the correct answer (and list the correct guessers) in tomorrow's Morning Reading List. Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the... [FishBowlDC]

The Winner of the 2008 Election - Posted November 11, 2008
If you're not familiar with Nate Silver and fivethirtyeight.com - we don't know what to tell you. We hope your cave gets WiFi soon. We love him. Now he's everywhere. NYT did and interview with him. CJR had an interview with him recently. He's all over Fox, CNN and MSNBC. All because... [FishBowlLA]

Queer Town is Clearly In The Tank for No on Prop. 8 - Posted October 23, 2008
LA Weekly's Queer Town's Patrick Range McDonald has been tirelessly following each development in the Proposition 8. Prop. 8 proposes to change the California constitution so same sex couples can't marry each other. Who cares who marries who? Mormons. If anyone would be cool with redefining marriage - you'd think it... [FishBowlLA]

FiveThirtyEight: Things That Make You Go Hmm - Posted October 20, 2008
FiveThirtyEight is a numbers nerd's dream. And Nate Silver and Sean Quinn are genius without pretense. Unlike FBLA...who are just pretense. Anyway, we've become daily readers of the site. A report from Sean Quinn last Friday, stuck with us over the weekend. We've been turning it over in our head and we... [FishBowlLA]