Afterwards, I got to meet the one luminary I most wanted to meet: Friedman. Nothing better to say than, in the fine tradition of Stuttering John, "big fan, big fan." To my utter delight, Friedman knew this very URL and, no surprise, he knows blogs. I then asked the obvious: Are you going to blog? He said he'd been asked whether he wanted to (note that blog/Times watchers) but in his line of work, he somewhat fears the immediacy of it. He's supposed to think for three days, and sometimes, he said, that's not enough. Oh, I get that. But still, I'd kill to see just links to what he's reading: Tom Friedman's Quick Links.