TIME's Are a Changing...
CNN reports on TIME Magazine's person of the year. YOU. TIME has embraced the fact that millions upon millions of people are giving up their evenings watching primetime, and choosing to create, co-create, collaborate, share, and produce original content instead (gotta love the simply innovative cover which reflects your face).
So I guess it's official. This isn't a trend.
The most interesting thing about the brief report on CNN was that literally after showing the cover, they promoted their own version of "citzen journalism" called iReport--a feature on the news channel which solicits photos and stories from the masses and puts them on the air.
In essence it's as if they are saying. "Hey--we're a part of this whole thing too!". As a somewhat relevant aside, I took this picture with my phone and wrote the post on it as well, without touching a PC. All in under10 minutes. Yes, times have changed as TIME suggests.
You know the old saying: "As soon as it's on the cover of Time magazine, that's proof positive that that trend has peaked."
Get ready to give up blogging!
Posted by: Roger von Oech | Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 01:02 PM
Of course, the irony is that if this really were the case, then 'the people' not Time magazine, would hav e picked the person of the year, which they didn't.
Posted by: Matthew Hurst | Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 01:31 PM
A couple of months ago Business 2.0 also named "YOU" the most important business executive of the year. And I believe it was time that also named YouTube the invention of the year (over the hydrogen powered car and other world-changing technologies, which is a little kooky, but significant nonetheless.)
Posted by: Greg Verdino | Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 04:22 PM
As the technology makes it easier and easier to share our thoughts (in words, in pictures and in video), the more and more "we" will matter. We are just at the beginning of this, only time will tell how far we are going to take this.
Posted by: Kempton | Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 07:04 PM
"YOU" ought to buy this 23 inch iMAC!
$20 says Warner produced television is being showcased on iTunes this week.
Posted by: david | Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 11:47 PM
"Get ready to give up blogging!"
Well, it is a little silly to hear about this kind of stuff from TIME, but this isn't about blogging. It's about a much more significant fundamental shift in basic human behavior. TIME nominated this "Us" as "person of the year" because they almost didn't have a choice. The way many of us live has changed. TIME is reflecting this (no pun intended) to the mainstream.
It's official. The rules have changed.
Posted by: David Armano | Sunday, December 17, 2006 at 11:56 PM
what a good times to be around....
A.
Posted by: Asi | Monday, December 18, 2006 at 09:59 AM