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on 2006-12-17 by jump4jay

They mean me... right?

on 2006-12-18 by mikemykel

So this is what has been going on.  No wonder I get nervous about it.  Every  one is looking at me.  I look into the abyss and  find that the abyss looks back at me.

on 2007-01-05 by ehoefler

Times declares "you" and "me" the person of the year ... because we control the "information age."

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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

Highlighted by bradblog

The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.

Highlighted by mattjb

It's a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who's out there looking back at them. Go on. Tell us you're not just a little bit curious.

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It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before.

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We're ready to balance our diet of predigested news with raw feeds from Baghdad and Boston and Beijing. You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos—those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms—than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.

Highlighted by lainiemcgann

The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

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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.

Highlighted by senzafine3

it's really a revolution.

Highlighted by korinuo

millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.

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digital democracy

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