Scott Stegner and his teenage son, Sean, had dropped off the boy's grandmother at her home in Pennsylvania and were driving back to Fairfax County on Route 15 in Maryland when, according to police, a pair of headlights barreled toward them.

I’d like to introduce you to Amanda Baggs. She’s a prolific blogger, an avid user of the virtual reality world Second Life, and a popular video blogger on YouTube. She also happens to be severely autistic, and she’ll change the way you think about the role of Web 2.0 in people’s lives.

Ever since substitute teacher Julie Amero was convicted last month of exposing her students to pornography on her classroom computer, bloggers have been debating who’s to blame, with most siding with her. Now, a published interview with a tech consultant who analyzed the Internet user logs for the day of the incident raises some difficult questions about potential failures of the school’s IT department.

In case you haven’t heard the news, you’ve been selected as Time Magazine’s person of the year. Yes, you, over there, by the computer monitor - you know who I’m talking to. But according to a cover story the previous week on the urgent need for educational reforms, we shouldn’t necessarily start preparing our acceptance speeches just yet.