You are the person of 2006 · 2006-12-18 14:09
“You” have been named as Time magazine’s Person of the Year for the growth and influence of user-generated content on the internet such as blogs, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace, reports Reuters.
The magazine has put a mirror on the cover of its “Person of the Year” issue. The mirror “reflects the idea that you, not us, are transforming the information age,” editor Richard Stengel said.
Time has been naming its person of the year since 1927, the aim is to pick “the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse.”
Last year Time’s Person of the Year was the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, his wife Melinda, and Irish rocker Bono for being Good Samaritans. In 2004 choice was U.S. President George W. Bush.
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