Dec06
17
Meet Time Magazine’s Person of Year for 2006
It’s you!
Well done indeed! Yes, if Business2.0’s hat tip to citizen marketers, citizen journalists and citizen broadcasters wasn’t enough to make you notice the ‘2.0 tidal wave’, this ought to help.
From Micropersuasion:
Yes, “You” were named this year’s “Person of the Year” for 2006 tonight by Time magazine. Citing the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content such as blogs, video-file sharing sites and social networks and digital democracy, the magazine picked us this year Reuters reports.
“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,” Lev Grossman wrote.
[...] (via Mike Stopforth) [...]
[...] First learnt about the great news, that you are the most imporatnt person of 2006, from Mike Stopforth on RSS and then it echoed on some other South African blog feeds. Sure, it’s a mistake to romanticize all this any morethan is strictly necessary. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Sharing is Caring:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]