Person of the Year

[prog]

I'm guessing that it's bringing down the snark something fierce amongst those who are into that sort of thing, but I think that Time's Person of the Year choice for this year is actually quite clever and appropriate.

Summary: they chose "you", referring to the ever-increasing relevance of services like blogs, Wikipedia, and YouTube. To a great extent I hang my own life off of this whole concept, so who am I to object?

In some ways this is the other shoe, nearly 25 years in the dropping, to their famously choosing the personal computer as the PMotY in 1982. The cover of that issue featured a colorful and lively PC being used by a colorless, inanimate plaster-of-paris person. It would have been clever to pun on that old cover, visually showing how the tables had turned, but I guess that'd be hard to do nowadays without seeming exclusionary. So they went with a mirror inside of a YouTube-ish window instead.

It's kinda twee, but I like it.

Comments

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

They chose us? What are we -- pokemons? Pika pi!

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

but I think that Time's Person of the Year choice for this year is actually quite clever and appropriate.

I agree.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

It seemed sort of naff when I first heard it, but actually I like the sentiment now. This really has been the year where blogging and youtube and all the rest came into the eyes of the public at large.

So now I've thought about it, I shall accept the award with grace.

[misuba.livejournal.com]

Oh shit... it's the You Decade.