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I deleted the remainder of this post and the poll because of a persuasive and gracious comment (see below) from Craig Ball, one of the people originally named in the post as a rockstar. When creating the poll, I failed to consider that

1. the poll failed to include a number of individuals with worthy contributions to e-discovery law, e-discovery best practices, and the e-discovery community in general; and

2. the poll compared individuals to each other, which could result in hard feelings.

The purpose of the poll was to give those who are new to e-discovery some new sources they hadn’t considered, new blogs to follow, and new written works to discover. But I fear that that goal could be over-shadowed by problems. For this reason, the poll has been removed.

In the future, I may publish a list of e-discovery authorities that doesn’t have the problem of comparing rockstar to rockstar. The goal of the list will be to help newcomers to the e-discovery community.

UPDATE: There is a growing list of e-discovery rockstars in the forum.