How A New Media Star Is Born

Megan Garber speaks with Nate Silver:

One thing about media in general, and new media in particular, is that it’s not very linearby which I mean it’s not that you go from one thousand hits in a day to two thousandit’s, you know, from one thousand to ten thousand. And, likewise, there’s a parallel track in terms of interview requests and everything else. It kind of went viral, for lack of a better term, and all of the sudden, you’re really busy.