My friend David Weinberger, an author and deep thinker, once updated the famous Andy Warhol line for the era of the blog. Weinberger said, "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 people."
Fame is double-edged, of course. So an addendum: In the future, everyone will face public vilification.
The rise of online conversation has given us wonderful new ways to tell one another what we know. It's also given people a forum with which to tear other people a proverbial ...