I don’t like to claim sole credit for the actions of American media institutions, but I think I deserve some kudos for what has happened at The New York Times.

You may recall that in January I talked about the irksome way the Times revamped its homepage with 27 boxes for different sections of content, but only filled 26 of them.  The bottom looked like this:

And now?  To the satisfaction of those who need dollar bills pointing the same way, alphabetized bookshelves and email accounts with zero unread messages, the homepage has a full 27 boxes:

You might question how much influence I had on this issue, and I’ll give you that.  My one blog post and two emails to people at the Times may not have made the difference this time.

So who can we really thank?  Let’s trace this back to Nate Silver.  Last summer, Silver took his stats-centered FiveThirtyEight blog from its former home at the Times to ESPN.  Then in late April the newspaper announced its new section to replace Silver, called The Upshot, which found a nice landing spot in Box 27.

So thanks, Nate.  And thank you, wise people at The New York Times, for giving my brain a little less to worry about in this grand world of ours.