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• 1 - TDavid

  Dec 30, 2003 at 3:13 pm

  Who is Instapundit and why does everyone focus so intently on him?
  
  Er, not everyone -- I have only visited it a few times and then backed out pretty quickly. Not my cup of tea.

• 2 - Al Barger

  Dec 30, 2003 at 3:32 pm

  The Instapundit is a law professor name of Glenn Reynolds. He has a popular website. He was one of the first bloggers, one of the most widely read, and has sent encouragement and traffic to a lot of others coming up behind him.
  
  I don't think there are that many people particularly intently focused on him. We just happen to have one who is: Brian Flemming. Brian seems to have focused some unrequited love/hate on Glenn.

• 3 - Eric Olsen

  Dec 30, 2003 at 3:40 pm

  Glenn is also a Blogcritic. He has by far more traffic than any other blogger and has made himself the best-known name in the field, even though most mainstream media outlets now have blogs. I find Brian's animus against him bizarre.

• 4 - John Mudd

  Dec 30, 2003 at 4:41 pm

  I find Brian's animus against him to be a strategy to drive more traffic to his blog and to increase his Google rankings.
  
  Of course, I only say that, having posted some things here for similar purposes.
  
  I find Brian and Glenn to both be interesting reads, but I do enjoy reading anything and everything I can, time permitting, of course.

• 5 - Jim Carruthers

  Dec 30, 2003 at 5:13 pm

  Grasshopper, snatch this pebble from my hand, but before you do that, measure twice -- cut once.
  
  What is the sound of ... erm, I forgot.
  
  Ask Google, that smartass knows everything.
  

• 6 - Mac Diva

  Dec 30, 2003 at 6:31 pm

  Glenn attracts a lot of people who brown-nose him in hope of getting links to the most popular Right Wing blogger, Zud. (The other side of that story would be Atrios.) I think Brian is trying to offset that 'let us worship the leader' trend by pointing out the emperor is butt naked. I pretty much agree too much noise is made over the InstaPundit (he of the short cites that seldom do more than provide a link) so I'm down with Brian in this regard.

• 7 - Mac Diva

  Dec 30, 2003 at 6:38 pm

  Addendum. I'm not saying this out of envy, for the record. True, someone who began blogging as a protege of Atrios,' like I did, never stood a chance of being smiled on by Glenn. He hates Atrios. Wouldn't even cite Eschaton or put it on his blogroll back when I spent a lot of time there. However, it is my personal opinion, not anyone else's, that the InstaPundit is much over-rated.

• 8 - John Mudd

  Dec 30, 2003 at 7:41 pm

  And on that note, you'll be able to find an article starring me in Florida Realtor Magazine's February issue where I will likely be over-rated (IMHO) as a Realtor-blogger. It's not about how good you really are as a blogger, it's about how much media attention you're able to generate with it. That's how you get those high ratings.

• 9 - TDavid

  Dec 30, 2003 at 7:45 pm

  Squeaky wheel gets the grease, John? So now why haven't you posted your list of muddiest moments of 2003?

• 10 - John Mudd

  Dec 30, 2003 at 8:35 pm

  It's coming soon to a blog near you.

• 11 - BB

  Dec 30, 2003 at 9:24 pm

  I find most of the so-called legends of blogdome over-rated. It seems that reality does not measure up to all of the hype. Holy cow, did I just agree with MD!!!

• 12 - Mac Diva

  Dec 30, 2003 at 10:54 pm

  Twice. We're both concerned about government laxity and mad cow disease, too.

• 13 - BB

  Dec 30, 2003 at 11:07 pm

  I'd better mark this in the calendar!