Instapundit
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| Created by | Glenn Reynolds |
| Website | pjmedia |
Instapundit is a libertarian blog maintained by Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee.
InstaPundit was launched in August 2001 as an experiment, and a part of Reynolds' class on Internet law. After the September 11 attacks, the site quickly became a highly popular warblog—with Reynolds celebrated as "chief among the warbloggers"—and was dubbed the "Grand Central Station of Bloggerville" in 2002 and reported to be "the most visited [blog] in the world" in early 2004. A 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee described Reynolds as one of the five "best-read national conservative bloggers."
Common topics are politics, technology (such as nanotechnology), space exploration, human longevity, digital photography, individual liberty and gun politics, domestic policy, the media, and the blogosphere as a social phenomenon. Instapundit frequently discusses the War on Terrorism from a supportive-but-critical viewpoint. Reynolds has also lent his support to the Porkbusters campaign, which purports to expose misallocation of federal funds.
Much of Instapundit's content consists of links to other sites, particularly those that Reynolds believes offer viewpoints not widely expressed elsewhere, often with brief comments. His frequent use of "heh," "indeed," and "read the whole thing" have been widely imitated and are often parodied by other bloggers. Reynolds encourages readers to explore the wider blogosphere and to fully read articles and posts to which he links. Since 2005, Reynolds has at times added original video reports, shot documentary-style, to the site. He covered the 2005 BlogNashville convention using video he shot himself. In January 2006, Reynolds began to host podcasts from Instapundit, along with his wife Dr. Helen Smith (who hosted discussion of the podcasts on her blog). The blogcasts have now given way to a video series on PajamasMedia called InstaVision, which Reynolds hosts individually (his wife contributes to PJM as well, but ucovers sually as a separate blogger).
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