Allison Kaplan Sommer writes:

The New Yorker’s Hendrik Herzberg loses his blogging virginity at the YearlyKos, no less - where, he observes, “there are two thousand people, every one of them a news junkie, and I haven’t seen one single person—not one—carrying a newspaper.”

(Entirely unrelated to the above story, except that it involves a newspaper, but this is an amusing anecdote from 2006 involving the Minneapolis Star-Tribune lifting vast swatches of one of Hertzberg's more incendiary New Yorker articles without attribution. And for complete Hertzbergian overload, today's New York Sun has a piece on him as well.)