The latest has been the tragic story of Paul Berkley, a Navy reservist who just returned from duty in the Middle East only to be slain in a gunshot attack. The police have charged Berkley's wife Monique with the attack and her teenage lover as one of the accomplices. Berkley's daughter's boyfriend was also involved in the attack, police say. You can read Paul Berkley's blog, where he writes about the joy of coming home), his wife's blog, and his daughter's blog.

As this technology continues to progress and our society becomes more comfortable in using it, the barriers between real-time and cyber-time will blur even more than they already have. Sci-fi novelists have long envisioned an age in which everything we do will instantly be transmitted online for others to see and comment on, perhaps proving Andy Warhol's old notion of everyone being famous for 15 minutes.

We're seeing the first tremors of that happening, I think, in cases like these, grim reminders of how much the personal lives of people extend into the net. We in the Web 2.0 village spend tons of time figuring out how blogs and bloggers are pertinent to journalism, to PR, to business, but in the end it’s still all about people and people’s lives.