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Columnist opens Facebook page

Columnist Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times opened up a group page with social networking darling Facebook to share photos and ideas from his travels.

Kristof may have the investigative journalism business down to a fine art, but the dual Pulitzer winner finds himself embracing a challenge on a different realm than the world of Darfurs and Tibetan protests he faces today.

"I can’t claim that any of this is intuitive to me," he said of modern Internet technologies like multimedia and social networking on his blog recently. "I feel like a prehistoric fish, trying to clamber on land and evolve lungs and legs - but I think it’s the way forward."

The evolution brought Kristof to Facebook, where his Facebook page has picked up over 1,100 fans since its debut. Kristof hopes to use both his Times blog and his Facebook presence as a communication tool and as a place where his devotees can interact.

Kristof is the first Times personality to fire up a Facebook group page, according to a Times spokesperson. He's soliciting feedback about his recent piece on anti-intellectualism, where he noted among other ideas that Americans are as likely to believe in UFOs as they are in evolution. The truth is out there, on Kristof's Facebook page.