Yep, I … and you, and you, and especially, you … are all “Person of the Year”. Why? Because You were responsible for the growth of user-generated content on blogs, such as this one, as well as video sharing on sites like YouTube and social networking on sites such as MySpace.
“For seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, Time’s Person of the Year for 2006 is you,” the magazine’s Lev Grossman wrote. Source: Reuters
So, congratulations to me … and to all of you. Time’s cover will feature a mirror, so you can know who really won. On the other hand, it would have been nice to see a real winner … somehow the word “lame” comes to mind.
However, blogging has exploded, and despite Gartner’s predictions that it will peak in 2007, the popularity of blogging, social networking and video sharing, which are all, as the article says, propelled by the Web (fight for net neutrality, hint, hint), will still give us another chance to win again next year.
