Tailor-made television.(The Wiki Man)(Column)

I could paint a Mona Lisa, I could be another Caesar; Compose an oratorio that is sublime. The door's not shut on my genius--but I just don't have the time.  

Like Flanders & Swann's sloth, many people are secretly convinced that they could write a masterpiece. Almost everyone also believes that they could start an internet business--if they only had the time.

I once considered starting a micros-wearing network called Touretter--an angrier version of Twitter. And a group of us recently debated starting Farmville: The European Union Edition. This was to be an online farming game where you own a tract of virtual land and then receive huge sums of imaginary money for …