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Law Professor Glenn Reynolds: the Web's 'InstaPundit'

Jeffery Knight
The American Lawyer
09-12-2002

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a celebrity law professor for the Information Age. He teaches law and technology at the University of Tennessee College of Law. He writes books and articles with titles like "Outer Space: Problems of Law and Policy." He produces techno music under the name Mobius Dick.

And he blogs.

A blog -- it's shorthand for "Web log" -- is like a personal bulletin board. It's a place to post anything you care to write about, whenever you care to write about it. Then you hope someone out there in cyberspace stops by and starts to read.

Reynolds, 41, named his blog InstaPundit. On it, this self-described "disenchanted libertarian Democrat" posts his thoughts on material that he excerpts from a mountain of other blogs, Web sites and reader e-mail. He includes