The Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2006: You, Me, Everyone!
The Time Magazine has a very interesting declaration for this year's (2006) person of the year (via Touchstone):
Also posted at Blogbharti.
Update: Some call it link baiting by the Time Magazine.
YOU Decide.
... 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. (emphasis mine)
Sure, it's a mistake to romanticize all this any more than is strictly necessary. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
But that's what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. ...
Also posted at Blogbharti.
Update: Some call it link baiting by the Time Magazine.
YOU Decide.
Labels: blogging
posted by Mridula at 3:56 PM
1 Comments:
However I do not think there is a problem with "Web 2.0", I think there is a problem with society. I've been disgusted with it as well, they're all saying they know more than the other and that their whatever is bigger and the other one should "f**k off and die" or "kill em all" or other junk like that. This "experiment" reveals fundamental problems with our world, that are in need of major changes. I would therefore say this "experiment" was very good, considering what it revealed.
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