An Army of Davids, del influyente bloguero Glenn Reynolds [instapundit.com], en biblioteca.etsit

Glenn Harlan Reynolds (1960-) es Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law en la University of Tennessee Knoxville [UTK], aunque es mejor conocido por su blog, instapundit [instanpundit.com], uno de los más leídos blogs políticos norteamericanos.

Glenn Reynolds, calificado frecuentemente como comentarista conservador, presume sin embargo de puntos de vista liberales en cuestiones sociales como el aborto, el consumo de drogas y el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo. Acostumbra a describirse a sí mismo como libertario o, más específicamente, como libertario transhumanista y, con su especial sentido del humor, ilustra su mezcla de puntos de vista afirmando que “estaría encantado de vivir en un país donde parejas gays felizmente casadas disponen de armarios repletos de armas de asalto“. Es un firme partidario del porkbuster [porkbuster.org] y de la guerra de Irak.

En 2006 publicó An Army of Davids : How markets and technology empower ordinary people to beat big media, big government and other Goliaths [ahora disponible en biblioteca.etsit en la signatura E0260 REY ARM], libro en el que analiza las distintas formas en las que las modernas tecnologías de la información han cambio la sociedad, permitiendo -según su opinión- a simples individuos hacer cosas que antes sólo las grandes y bien financiadas organizaciones podían realizar.

Finalista del World Technology Network’s 2004 Media and Journalism award, Glenn Reynolds es columnista habitual de Popular Mechanics Magazine [popularmechanics.com] donde escribe sobre cuestiones prácticas y legales relacionadas con la era digital y cubre eventos sobre electrónica de consumo.

Andrew Keen, autor del afamado libro The Cult of the Amateur : How today’s internet is killing our culture and assaulting our economy [localizado en la signatura de biblioteca.etsit E0260 KEE CUL] menciona en varias ocasiones a Glenn Reynolds :

[pag. 52] “Its not surprising then that these prominent bloggers have no professional training in the collection of news. After all, who needs a degree in journalism to post a hyperlink on a Web site? Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, for example, the founder of Daily Kos [dailykos.com], a left-leaning site, came to political blogging via the technology industry and the military. Glenn Reynolds, who leans to the right, was a law professor and an amateur music producer before jumping on his digital soapbox. Matt Drudge [Drudge Report (drudgereport.com)] was a mediocre student who came to the media business via a job managing the CBS studio gift shop. Such amateurs treat blogging as a moral calling rather than a profession tempered by accepted standards; proud of their lack of training, standards, and ethical codes, they define themselves as the slayers of the media giants, as irreverent Davids overcomming the news-gathering industry Goliaths.”

[pág. 60] “Glenn Reynolds, the author of the Instapundit blog, claims that we are on the brink of the amateur century. Technology, Reynolds asserts, will give each individual the power only avalaible traditionally to ‘nation-states, superheroes, or gods’. We will, he argues, acquire the ‘intelligence of the gods’ on everything from amateur journalism and music production to medicine, nanotechnology, and space travel.”

[pág. 195] “In March 2006, I became embroiled in an online debate with Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds about morality. In reviewing his book An Army of Davids for the Weekly Standard [weeklystandard.com] I argued that Reynolds, in the romantic tradition of Marx, had invested an unreasonable level of trust in mankind’s ability to use technology responsibly. But this is the key question in the debate between pragmatists like myself (or so I like to think) and digital utopians like Reynolds. Can we really trust society to behave properly in the Wild West culture of the Web 2.0 revolution?.”