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1. He didn&#8217-t sign Bob&#8217-s petitions.
2. He is experienced.
3. He is well versed into prediction markets and journalism.
4. Just after HubDub&#8217-s inception, he realized they fucked up their chart widgets. Five months later, they managed to correct that birth defect.
5. He is a guy humble enough to ask for pointers and feedback &#8212-and he does listen up (see the point #4).
6. He is quite friendly.
7. HubDub is already a success.
8. HubDub serves a purpose for people: it mixes news and prediction markets in a novel way, which should give ideas to InTrade, TradeSports, BetFair, TradeFair, NewsFutures, etc.
9. In some kind of small ways, Nigel Eccles is pioneering &#8220-the future of journalism&#8220-.
10. If newspaper and magazine websites were to be interested in prediction markets, HubDub should be in the short list.

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Three things that Scottish guy hasn&#8217-t computed yet, though:

1. You have to look down into the small prints, towards the bottom of their frontpage, to get the info that they have a blog. (((They master well mass e-mailing, on the other hand.)))
2. He hasn&#8217-t cracked open prediction market journalism (a la Justin Wolfers), yet &#8212-but I&#8217-m confident that is coming.
3. He looks like a baby-face schmuck on that pic.

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