I've found that with the advent of blogging, I read fewer and fewer op-ed columnists than I used to. I still like to read the big-wigs, like George Will, and I'll read anything on a major newspaper's op-ed page that looks really interesting, no matter who the author. But I don't find myself reading the second-tier syndicated columnists nearly as much. By the time a syndicated columnist has had time to write a column on a particular issue -- like, say, the NEA guidelines on Sept. 11 -- that issue has already been hashed to death by bloggers and I'm just not interested any more. Anybody else had this experience?