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Person of the Year
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 thePMotY 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.
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
It's kinda twee, but I like it.
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