The Connection, one of NPR's morning shows, did a segment today with George Packer, who wrote about his love/hate relationship with blogs in Mother Jones earlier this month. David Adesnik of OxBlog was also a guest, and Packer mentioned that he had been taken aback a few months ago when he met David and chatted with him about his dissertation, only to find that within a few hours their conversation had been blogged for the entire world to see.

So what does David do? Within 30 minutes of being on the air with Packer he's already blogged about it! That's showing him!

I was on for a few minutes after David, but as usual with radio there wasn't really time to say much of anything, although I did manage to get in a plug for Phil Carter's expert coverage of the Abu Ghraib scandal.

I have to admit that I was laughing as I listened to the lead-in, with Packer talking about how he finds himself getting sucked into blogs for hours at a time and is now trying to wean himself off his addiction. He sounded like a three-time loser promising that he was going to kick the habit and this time he really means it!

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