Christopher Lydon is an American media personality and author. He is best known for being the original host of The Connection, produced by WBUR and syndicated to other NPR stations. A former journalist with The New York times, he also anchored The Ten o clock News on WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts. He has been credited with conducting the first ever podcast when he was a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 2003. At the time he began recording in-depth interviews focused on blogging and politics, posting the downloadable audio files as part of his blog. Bob Doyle (inventor) built an MP3 portable recording studio for Lydon and Dave Winer, also a Berkman Fellow, created an RSS enclosure feed for Lydon's MP3 interview files. He currently hosts Radio Open Source, a show with a global attitude focused on arts, humanities and global affairs and produced in partnership with Brown University’s Watson Institute of International sciences.