As usual, I was happy to be involved with SXSW, particularly when I have an opportunity to record such stellar guests as Stephen Baker interviewing Nate Silver of 538.com. For those of you unfamiliar with Silver, he gained notoriety for up-ending the traditional ways to recruit professional baseball players based on statistics, and he also accurately predicted Obama’s election, LONG before he was a contender. A charming feature of Nate’s: his infectious laugh. It had the whole audience stricken with giggles.