You were named Time magazine "Person of the Year" on Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content such as blogs, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network 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.
The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. But it's really a revolution.
And we are so ready for it. We're ready to balance our diet of predigested news with raw feeds from Baghdad and Boston and Beijing. You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.
And we didn't just watch, we also worked. Like crazy. We made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded podcasts. We blogged about our candidates losing and wrote songs about getting dumped. We camcordered bombing runs and built open-source software.
Who are these people? Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?
The answer is, you do. And 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.
Cool...
via Times, via Yahoo
5 comments:
*Elvis Impersonation On* TY, TY, TYVM *Elvis Impersonation Off* I want to thank all the little people that made this possible, it's an honor just to be nominated and quite a shock to win. YOU like me! YOU really like me!
This is going to look great on my resume. I was thinking about putting an acceptance video on YouTube for it also
You stole me acceptance speech!
And gimme back my trophy!
What are you people smoking? I got it already, engraved even, "Shooter, You-De-Man!!"
Fuh-get-about-it..........losers
As Carly Simon sang "YOU're so Vain, I bet YOU thought this year was about YOU" and Alan Rickman agreed "Oh of course, it's all about YOU isn't it?"
I'm selling the trophy on Ebay, if YOU want it then YOU can bid on it, since YOU won it *wicked grin*
Hey! Whose picture is on the cover? That’s right, mine! Because it’s all about me! Me, me, me, dammit!
Is my check in the mail?
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