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You're on the cover of Time magazine!

Sunday, 17 December , 2006, 10:46

New York: Time magazine has tipped its cap in its latest issue to a person who is the driving force behind the present information age: You.


The magazine's 'Person of the Year' issue, to be released tomorrow, features on its cover a mirror in a computer screen.

Recognising the power that individuals enjoy through blogs and sites like YouTube and MySpace, which allow them to air their opinion, Time magazine has chosen 'You' as the person of year over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea's Kim Jong II and former US Secretary of Defense Ronald Rumsfled who hogged headlines throughout the year.

To be sure, Time says, there are individuals 'we could blame for many painful an disturbing things that happened during the year. The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon.

'A war dragged on in Sudan. A 'tin-pot' dictator in North Korea got the Bomb and the President of Iran wants to go nuclear too. Meanwhile, nobody fixed global warming, and Sony didn't make enough PlayStations,' it said.

But looking through a different lens, it points out, 'you'll see another story,' one that isn't about conflict or great men.

It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace.

'You. Me. Everyone. Everyone is who is transforming the information age by creating and consuming content,' Richard Stengel, the magazine's managing editor told CNN's Soledad O'Brien. '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.'

Source: You're on the cover of Time magazine!

Sunday, 17 December , 2006, 10:46

New York: Time magazine has tipped its cap in its latest issue to a person who is the driving force behind the present information age: You.


The magazine's 'Person of the Year' issue, to be released tomorrow, features on its cover a mirror in a computer screen.

Recognising the power that individuals enjoy through blogs and sites like YouTube and MySpace, which allow them to air their opinion, Time magazine has chosen 'You' as the person of year over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, North Korea's Kim Jong II and former US Secretary of Defense Ronald Rumsfled who hogged headlines throughout the year.

To be sure, Time says, there are individuals 'we could blame for many painful an disturbing things that happened during the year. The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon.

'A war dragged on in Sudan. A 'tin-pot' dictator in North Korea got the Bomb and the President of Iran wants to go nuclear too. Meanwhile, nobody fixed global warming, and Sony didn't make enough PlayStations,' it said.

But looking through a different lens, it points out, 'you'll see another story,' one that isn't about conflict or great men.

It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace.

'You. Me. Everyone. Everyone is who is transforming the information age by creating and consuming content,' Richard Stengel, the magazine's managing editor told CNN's Soledad O'Brien. '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.'


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