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Christopher Lydon Web / radio show host Open Source Media Inc. Cambridge, MA http://www.radioopensource.org chris@christopherlydon.org 15 Mount Auburn St. Cambridge, MA 02138 Work: 67-797-9411 "Thomas Paine was a blogger without the software. So was the weekly mail pamphleteer I. F. Stone, our anti-war hero of the 1960s and 70s and the only certifiable genius I ever encountered in journalism. Ralph Waldo Emerson, a fount of sturdy values (father of the American religion, says Harold Bloom) was a proto-blogger. And Emerson's magazine The Dial in the 1840s, with Thoreau, Fuller, Alcott among the Concord co-conspirators, was the original group blog." Christopher Lydon, at Radio Open Source, explaining why he began the show.	Photo Linked From: http://www.bostonphoenix.com//boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/multi-page/images/04525295.gif Summary: Lydon, a talk radio and print newspaper veteran is pioneering with support from the MacArthur Foundation and Public Radio International a unique, integrated web-and-radio format which shapes program topics and live questions from the web.

UPDATES: In March, 2007, Lydon announced via his blog that the MacArthur Foundation had provided a $250,000 grant to continue OpenSource after it lost its funding from UMass Lowell at Dec. 31. WIKIPEDIA PROFILE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lydon BOSTON PHOENIX PROFILE: March 11, 2005 http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/multi-page/documents/04525193.asp Read More: http://www.wgbh.org/program-info?program_id=2271985 http://www.podcastingnews.com/archives/2005/05/public_radio_in.html