Posted on 03/27/2006 10:20:38 AM PST by neverdem
GLENN Reynolds isn't just the author of "An Army of Davids." He's a living, breathing embodiment of the book's attractive and persuasive thesis as summarized in its lengthy but informative subtitle: "How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government and Other Goliaths."
In August 2001, Reynolds was a respected but relatively obscure law professor teaching at the University of Tennessee, a college better known for its football program than its brainpower. Then Reynolds, who had been haunting Slate's reader forum "The Fray," started Instapundit.com, which took off like gangbusters after the 9/11 attacks.
Reynolds linked widely and often to all sorts of coverage of the attacks, from mainstream media to personal weblogs, acting as a clearinghouse of breaking news and providing pointed running commentary and reflection as the tragic toll of the dark days became clear.
Within months, he had gone from a penny-stock pundit to the "king of the blogosphere," the breakout star of the World Wide Web's then-burgeoning craze. As impressive, he acted like the Ramones of cyberspace, inspiring dozens of imitators to start their own blogs, each with very different personalities, quirks and topic areas. Now he's a mini media mogul who commands the attention of millions of Internet eyeballs.
In addition to Instapundit.com, which pulls as many as 500,000 page views a day, he blogs for MSNBC at glennreynolds.com and writes a column for the webzine TCS Daily. He also helped create the blogging consortium Pajamas Media and his work and opinions are sought after in traditional, dead-tree publications such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. Links and praise from Reynolds typically result in a server-choking flurry of traffic, as his readers rush to check out his recommendations.
The breezy and eminently readable "Army of Davids"...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Instapundo Delenda Est.
Heh.
Read the whole thing.
Indeed.
/Instagroupie mode
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