WORTH NOTING

I stumbled across this bit from cosmologist Alan Sandage while doing research on the scientific work of Edwin Hubble:

It was Hubble's mastery of the language that gave some of his papers such dominance over prior work by others. Often the problem had in fact been solved, but without the same elegance of style, power of presentation, and excellence of summary possessed by Hubble when he was at his best. Clearly, the lesson for students is learn to write at the same time that you learn to do great science. (italics in the original)

Substitute "Reynolds" for "Hubble," and "blogging" for "science" and you've got some understanding of why InstaPundit is indeed the Grand Central Station of the blogosphere. He writes well, gets to the point, and moves on.