Rands you forgot to mention in your "get to know me", that your one of these incrementalists bastard who ship buggy software because said bug wasn't heinous enough... :-)

Pretty much agree with what you says, you are just somewhat late to realise it, we already achieved the next logical step where these influential individual group together, and achieve much more power, like nerd have slashdot, gamers got shacknews, teenagers lurk on something awful and the porn freak have the rest of the internet... Just look at those penny-arcade boys with their foundation, 75000$ ( if I remember right ) donated by mostly stranger. That's serious power. If you look at evolution, we got people, than group of people, than association in those group, powerclash than war. That will be interesting to follow.