If any of you happen to be near a radio at about 6:55 ET, turn to NPR and you’ll hear me, gassing away, (along with Fr. James Martin, among others) about the pope’s new blog. Specifically, I give him a bit of joking “advice,” such as: “try to get linked by Instapundit! Gets you more exposure, then you can charge more for blogads!” And, “…if I link to him, he’s got to link back to me!”
Fr. Martin emails that in the transcripts I got the pull-quote!
“He should have some favorite YouTube videos that he can just slap up there when he’s feeling kind of tired. Like the parade scene from Ferris Bueller. Slap that up there and that’s a day’s blogging!”
Heh. You can hear the broadcast here
It’s pretty fluffy and light-hearted, and it’s meant to be. I wouldn’t mind a chance to speak more seriously with NPR’s Religion Correspondent Barbara Bradley Hagerty, about our dear pope. Perhaps another time.
Meanwhile: Shake it up, baby!
I was listening to NPR at 3:58 p.m. Pacific Time as I started preparing dinner and who did I chance to hear? You sounded great!
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I, too, was listening to NPR as I vacuumed and caught the broadcast, I was pleasantly suprised to hear your “real-life” voice! I only turned down my mouth a tiny bit at the just-a-teeny-bit snarky comment about the “bankrupt dioceses” that could use money from ads on a Pope Benedict blog.
But otherwise, I thought it was fun!
…and thank you for the parade scene.
Well done!
I wonder if His Holiness will get an iPad….
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There is a rumor that the only reason Glen Reynolds links to people is to see if their server crashes.
I hear he’s got quite the sense of humor…
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My girlfriend heard the same NPR story about the Pope and blogging. She told me when she got home she wouldn’t have known about the Instapundit if it weren’t for me. She felt like she was “in the know” when she heard the story.
The top illo, her expression, what a picture!
How cool was that – I heard it live on NPR!
I think even the pope needs a less lame web site before he’s going to get an instalanche…
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