The original author of my Wikipedia entry wrote today to warn me that some nameless clod had vandalized it over the weekend (he kindly fixed it for me). I guess I asked for it, but I’m still impressed–if that’s the word–by the way in which the Internet facilitates idiocy. Or, in the words of an unknown commenter quoted in Daniel J. Solove’s forthcoming book The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet, “The Internet makes fools into stars and stars into fools.”
Needless to say, the latter isn’t always a bad thing….
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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