Jim Gannon is, in many ways, a model new-school journalist. After decades in newspapers (including high-level posts at the Des Moines Register and the Detroit News), he decided in retirement that the area around his home in Virginia wasn’t getting enough news coverage. So he used the instant-publishing powers of the Internet to start The [...]

We noted yesterday that Rich Miller had predicted trouble on election night for sites like FiveThirtyEight that hosted on free/cheap sites like Blogger. Well, score one for Rich — FiveThirtyEight was noticeably slower than its peers all night long, earning this rebuke from the site’s Sean Quinn:

One does wonder why Blogger’s owner Google, of [...]

Rich Miller at the blog Data Center Knowledge — I’m sure you’re all reading it on a daily basis anyway — has a good post about how news web sites are prepping for the onslaught of traffic coming tonight. Three highlights:
– He seems to hint at potential trouble for FiveThirtyEight and other sites “hosted on [...]