Christopher Lydon born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1940 is an American media personality and author whose work in radio includes creating The Connection for WBUR. He is a former journalist with the New York Times, former WGBH Boston evening news anchor and was a candidate for mayor of Boston in 1993. Christopher Lydon is a graduate of Boston's Roxbury Latin School and Yale University. The Connection is a radio call-in program on NPR originally hosted by Christopher Lydon, and now by Dick Gordon, it is syndicated nationally to public radio stations in the US. Categories: Substubs | National Public Radio ... WBUR is the larger of two NPR member stations in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The TV version of the WGBH drop-shadow logo WGBH is an established public television station for Boston, Massachusetts, affiliated with public radio stations (PBS, and NPR & PRI). ... Roxbury Latin School is the oldest school in continuous existence in North America. ... This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ...

He and longtime producer Mary McGrath were sacked by WBUR in 2002 in a highly public falling out after Lydon and McGrath attempted to convert their claims of intellectual property in the The Connection into some kind of financial ownership. The station offered a pay package that was, by public radio standards, immense. But there was no going back.

Internet topics became a topic of The Connection, and his ChristopherLydon.org weblog became a launchpad for international broadcasts and other activities. The first use of the term weblog. ...

While a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society in 2003, Lydon began recording in-depth interviews focused on blogging and politics, posting the downloadable audio files as part of his weblog. Dave Winer, also a Berkman Fellow, created an RSS enclosure feed for Lydon's MP3 interview files, an event often credited with sparking the growth of podcasting. He also launched the political site BOPnews for "Blogging of the President" during the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign. Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... The Berkman Center for Internet and Society is a department of Harvard Law School, which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace. ... Dave Winer (b. ... Really Simple Syndication is a member group of the RSS family for web syndication. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Podcasting is a method of publishing files via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed to receive new files automatically. ...

On May 30, 2005, Lydon returned to the air on University of Massachusetts at Lowell's radio station WUML and Boston's WGBH with a new show called "Open Source", syndicated through Public Radio International. Including a blog and podcast, the program promised to "use blogs to be a show about the world." The third episode of the show focused on Wikipedia and featured Jimbo Wales as a guest. The University of Massachusetts Lowell is one of five University of Massachusetts campuses. ... WUML is a noncommercial College Alternative station in Lowell, Massachusetts. ... The TV version of the WGBH drop-shadow logo WGBH is an established public television station for Boston, Massachusetts, affiliated with public radio stations (PBS, and NPR & PRI). ... Public Radio International, or PRI, is a not-for-profit corporation based in the United States founded in 1983 to develop non-commercial audio programming for public radio and other audio venues. ... Wikipedia is a Web-based, multi-language, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers and sponsored by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. ... Jimmy Wales in Paris, France Jimmy Donal Jimbo Wales (born August 7, 1966) is the co-founder of Wikipedia. ...

Lydon has also been the subject of a song, "Christopher Lydon," by Boston band the Dresden Dolls.

External links

• christopherlydon.org
• Christopher Lydon Interviews...
• Christopher Lydon profile in the Boston Phoenix, March 2005
• The Blogging of the President - Notes on the Transformation
• Open Source
• Profile on Open Source