Give yourself a pat on the back: you’ve been selected as Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” — along with everyone else who uses the internet.
For the 2006 version of the renowned annual list, the publication decided not to choose a single person, instead crowning all internet users.
The issue hits newsstands on Monday. It carries a cover showing a white keyboard with a mirror for a computer screen, so readers can see their own reflections.
“It’s about the many wresting power from the few,” wrote Lev Grossman, Time’s technology writer.
Grossman also pointed out that blogs are “often more immediate and authentic than traditional media.”
Are you blushing? This award and $1.80 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
Great… we’ll all share this “honor” with previous winners, like
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Richard Nixon
Ayatollah Khomeini
George W. Bush
Stand proud! Time is on your side. 😉
Does that include all online spammers, trojan/virus writers, myspace paedophiles, phishers, scammers and other nasties?
Hrm, yay.
I see Time’s point, to a degree, but uhhhh, no thanks.
This is worse than when they made the “computer” the person of the year. So I guess they couldn’t find ONE important person. Cripes — a gimmick.
congratulations John C. Dvorak, Time’s Person of the Year!
and congratulations to myself as well
What a patronizing award. Have the Time Magazine staff all had a lobotomy?
“You control the information age”. What data are we left with after we’ve been turned away from data harvesting operations like the NSA, credit card companies, etc.
I agree with Richard Swinburne – it’s mindless to exclude the nasties.
Lame!
Time is getting lamer and lamer… And more irrelevent by the year…
The idea was good enough to make it onto this blog…
Now..
who wants to fight over the trophy
I would like to thank every one who made this possible. It’s about time (no pun intended) recognized me for my contributions to society.
Look…they use a MAC as the computer.
Nice.
What!! people still read Time magazine? lol useless publication
#11
It looks like whitened standard PC keyboard and a YouTube looking interface as the “screen”.
Yay for me. Bow to my greatness.
I was wondering why there are so many reporters in front of my house.
Too bad they decided on this before news came out about the magnetic mirror fusion concept (http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=8665) – clearly, this blog’s Mr. Fusion should not have had to share the award with the rest of us.
So, it really is all about me. I mean, us.
I see this move as a cop-out… as their “true” #1 is in the second spot: : Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
#9 & 15
I’ll take the trophy from 9:00 to 9:10, AM on Friday, January 12, 2007.
The keyboard is def’ly mac or mac-like, it looks just like the one I’m using, but I can’t find a detailed enough pic on the internet to see if it has an “Apple” key to the left of the space bar.
The “screen” is stylized video window, but the curved aluminum base is clearly from an apple monitor
[edited: pls use tinyurl]
#19
I stand corrected.
Sounds like the old codgers at Time, a dynosaur of the old print media, are finally realizing that the internet revolution is making them obsolete.
Is this their way of trying to woo back the internet generation by playing to our vanity? If it is, they are doomed. We don’t need Time to tell us the what is “the news” anymore. The public now can determine for themselves what is important and voice their opinions on it directly. We no longer need some old men in a New York high rise to judge what we should be told or then what to think about it. They have lost all their power and clout.
Long live the blogs!
Oh boy! This is going to look great on my resume!
You won? You’re average at best and everyone knows it! Only a bunch of slackers would pick you!
Finally someone realizes how important I am.
I agree with John 110 %.