Like Stephen, I was unaware that Bryan Appleyard had started a blog. One for the reading-list, along with Open University.
All these disembodied voices talking to each other... Neo, who's been in Washington for a Pajamas Media bash, reflects on what's like to come face-to face:
I find it an extraordinary experience to meet people backwards: that is, to meet their minds first and their bodies second. You get to know people in a totally different way as, day after day, you read what they are thinking without ever having met them in the flesh.