Bloggers and User Generated Content Creators should be proud. We are the Time Person of The Year. You can be sure that I’m going to be putting that on my resume. 
To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon. A war dragged on in Sudan. A tin-pot dictator in North Korea got the Bomb, and the President of Iran wants to go nuclear too. Meanwhile nobody fixed global warming, and Sony didn’t make enough PlayStation3s.
But look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.
It’s been a great year. I reached peak by being named Person of The Year. Will it get any better than now?
Source: Time Magazine
Originally posted on December 16, 2006 @ 8:28 pm
When I saw the announcement in the Life magazine Friday newspaper supplement, I sarcastically thought the same thing – maybe I should put this on my resume.
But really, I’m seconds away from making up a banner button to put on all my blogs.