digg

Join DiggAbout

Discover and share the best of the web!
Learn more about Digg by taking the tour.

Time Person of The Year: It's You!

time.com — YOU were named TIME magazine 'Person of the Year' Saturday for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated Internet content such as 'blogs', video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace... You -- YES, YOU -- beat out candidates including Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China's President Hu Jintao, North Korean leader Ki

Bury
show profanity settings
expand all
  • spunkz, on 10/12/2007, -98/+12Source: DrudgeReport.com
    • laplacian, on 10/12/2007, -17/+228What a cop-out by Time
    • PhantomBantam, on 10/12/2007, -55/+4taplacian, you are a Comment abuser. (just like me)
    • kingvar, on 10/12/2007, -185/+270And don't think it's not going onto my resume.

      Awards:
      "Time 2006 Person of the Year"
    • postitnote, on 10/12/2007, -4/+176Wow kingvar you stole that comment right from binky79...
    • Dainjah, on 10/12/2007, -2/+145kingvar, Good job plagiarizing binky79's post. That is seriously lame.
    • nazuraki, on 10/12/2007, -3/+141Those are some sick Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V skills, kingvar.
    • RoboPimp3000, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30Sooooo lame and a transparent attempt to sell more mags. Time was so much better when they actually focused on current events and didn't devote their cover space to stupid feature stories like "The American Teenager: Is He Retarded?" or "A Day in the Life of a Menopausal Woman".. which are not actual Time Magazine covers but may as well be. Seriously, Time is barely a notch above People nowadays.
    • gcnaddict, on 10/12/2007, -8/+38"kingvar, Good job plagiarizing binky79's post. That is seriously lame."

      quite the comment abuser too. He was only looking for digg-ups. kingvar, it's people like you who screw digg.
    • scott1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Oh great all those trolls/spammers/bad commentors get person of the year.
    • hobgobbler, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I guess they figured there isn't a photoshop wiz in the world who could make those youtube guys sell magazines.
    • Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6"And 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 you."

      What a bunch of ridiculous horse crap. Corporate media still dominates, and they know that.
    • haiduz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11spunkz you dont deserve to be the time person of the year
    • hambend, on 10/12/2007, -9/+36***** all you naysayers. The article and the sentiment are both entirely correct. YouTube, Digg, MySpace, Wikipedia, all these things are just the beginning of something far greater. We are just starting to learn how to utilize online social networks, but very soon they will be mature enough that we can apply them to real-life problems.

      Already there are social networks that provide loans, and startups trying to create open development environments for hardware products. In the long term, social networks will begin to pick up financial and political sway. Only then, for the first time in human history, we will be free to form the structure of our societies on our own terms, without the interference of corrupt powermongers and hopelessly inefficient bureaucracies.

      I honestly don't get why everyone isn't as excited about this as I am...
    • scairborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Dear Barbara Walters,
      I'll be free for interviews next monday.
    • GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"The article and the sentiment are both entirely correct. YouTube, Digg, MySpace, Wikipedia, all these things are just the beginning of something far greater."

      You may be right, but don't forget that they're just tools we use. Even though they're absolutely useless without us, that doesn't mean that there isn't someone, behind the scenes, making all the magic happen.

      Those people, they're the ones that deserve this award more than we do. After all, without them, we wouldn't have realized their potential.
    • wbbb617, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Best part about this all is going to read the article and this is the ad that gets played...
      http://cache.ultramercial.com/d/005-434/chrysler_flash.html
      "You might not be Time's Person of the Year....", but you can still drive a Chrysler.
      Too bad I AM, guess I shouldn't drive one then.
    • TheWorm, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I like their choice. I think that unlike George Clooney, or the others they usually pick, "you" or us rather, really represents the year 2006. Web 2.0 and social networking has broken down so many barriers and has made it so the every day guy can be heard.
    • bot001220, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Wow. I don't have anything prepared... I'd like to thank Digg, and 4Chan. Well, maybe not 4Chan.
    • phort99, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Runner-up: Everybody but you.
    • jonnyboy88, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I'm actually thinking about putting this on a college application. Do you this the admissions officers would find it funny?
    • Avalontor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@GliTCH82

      Where did you see digg mentioned? Why did you add Digg with MySpace, Wikipedia and Youtube?.
    • mikesbaker, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2oops
    • scotty707, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Sweet that makes me a two-time winner. That will look great on a resume. How many people can say they are a two-time POY?

      Time Person of the Year
      2003: The American soldier
      2006: "It's You!"
    • themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow. I always imagined this day would come when I'd finally get some recognition and be named person of the year.
    • mrfreeziexp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3You all are just jealous because I was named person of the year.
    • Fentekreel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i dont know what you people are talking about i'm the man of the year......my face is on the cover!
  • Hensworth, on 10/12/2007, -6/+45Thank you, I deserve it too.
    • spunkz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24Congrats to you too!
    • littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -5/+21I agree with TIME on this, and it's because of ideas like Digg.
    • Keach, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Well. Since I'm person of the year. Here's my favorite YouTube Video that I made this year:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdvTN1PI-sM
    • Keach, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2It's an anti-Military Industrial Complex video called "You Masters of War." It looks great enlarged to full screen if I do say so myself.
    • ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8No, thanks. I don't want an award from a magazine that named George W. Bush a man of the year, TWICE.
  • spunkz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html

    Time Article...
  • bluesuga, on 10/12/2007, -23/+6oh good what a relief its not Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
    i thought i would have to go to my nearest convenience store and buy all of the magazines and use the covers for target practice
    • quasipalm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6What, "you" doesn't include Ahmadinejad?
  • cualcrees, on 10/12/2007, -1/+66So... will they put a mirror on the cover of the magazine?? i always wanted to be on the cover of time!
    • junk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Actually they did. It's a little piece of mylar.
    • Chaotyk, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2Uh, that's kind of lame... they should do a promotion where you can send in your photo, pay a little bit extra, and have a copy of TIME with your picture on it...
    • BigKitty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes, they'll put a mirror on the cover. But it'll probably be one of those flexible plastic funhouse mirrors.
      /irony
  • binky79, on 10/12/2007, -2/+365And don't think it's not going onto my resume.

    Awards:
    "Time 2006 Person of the Year"
  • craaaig, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4That made my day.
  • Speff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+132Thanks for the prize, but I don't deserve it. All I did was sit on my ass all year on digg.
    • moxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Ah, so modest!
    • markmayhew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5i second that emotion. Wait, I did stray from digg sometimes, to look at youporn!
    • BigKitty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8What this means is that TIME is conceding the fact that DIGGers, bloggers, and the like have trumped the mainstream media.
    • cosequin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I did dirty seo, stole link juice from blogs, wikipedia, forums, created fake blogs, posted spammy comments on digg, exploited high-ranking search sites for links using XSS, downloaded that huge list of 7000 myspace passwords from edonkey2000, scraped javascript-only content for my made-for-adsense sites, plugged radio broadcasts into the dragondictate api for free unique content, got my affiliate links into froogle and ranked highly in google, got my sites ranked highly for a day, made plenty of cash.

      I also corrected grammar and spelling errors on wikipedia, posted bondage/sadomasochistic porn to google video and http://pornotube.com, and plenty other stuff for the good of all mankind.

      2006 was the year of me.

      loljewsdidwtc
  • SecretSnack, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6Copout.
  • DirtySnachez, on 10/12/2007, -13/+41Gosh, I know at least 51% of US don't really deserve it.
    • brooklynboy, on 10/12/2007, -45/+3@DirtySnachez

      "Gosh, I know at least 51% of US don't really deserve it."

      Would that be the 51% that voted in the democrats to the House and Senate?

      And by the way, this "you are person of the year" stuff really is laziness on the part of time. They are claiming that YouTube, Myspace and WikiPedia - because they are content driven by users who choose to sign up unsolicited - means that we were the purveyors of what makes these websites great.

      If they really wanted to give it to someone specific, maybe they should have picked the most popular one out of all three - YouTube.

      Youtube has penetrated television broadcasts, with the 10pm nightly news using videos downloaded FROM YOUTUBE! That's truly who the award should go to.

      But thanks, Time. In your laziness you've now disqualified any other future person of the year, because if it isn't me, that implies I've done nothing in 2007, 2008, 2009 and soon. So from this point forward, it has to be me - or "YOU!!" - every single year until the publication stops printing.

    • DirtySnachez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18WTF? Not everyone on digg is in the US of A, I was merely using capital "US" because the article capitalises "YOU"... any connection to petty politics or the significance of a torn nation have only sprung from the fathoms of your over-imaginative analysis of my non-descript comment.

      What I was trying to say that, ME, as a winner, should enjoy the comfort of believing that I am still better than half of the other ***** out there. If every single person is 'awesome', doesn't 'awesome' just become the new 'normal.'

      And by the way, if I was American, I'd vote 3rd party.
    • ei8htball, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Only 51%?
      I certainly haven't met a large number of people by many people's standards, but more than two thirds of the people I've interacted with have come off as complete idiots (such as brooklynboy there)... (kinda pathetic and depressing now that I think about it...)
  • kingkilr, on 10/12/2007, -21/+3Damn strait!
  • digitalsin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+44Damn I'm good. I always knew the world revolved around me.
    • ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+36Actually it revolves around...
      edit: nah ***** it. Too easy, digg down.
  • herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1....um...it was this person last year...i think they do this all the time now
  • redthirteen, on 10/12/2007, -18/+5Time Person of The Year: George W. Bush.
    Without George W. Bush and his cabinet members, the Daily News would not be this hilarious every night.

    The circuit is in Washington D.C..
  • HallwayGiant, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3And what a easy interview too...
  • JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+60My only question is how many times the Person of the Year entry at Wikipedia is going to be altered to say a specific person's name.
  • ericmcgovern, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Is this even relevant anymore?
  • CzescToJa, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8wow, it's me? I don't feel any different.. am I supposed to? How lame
  • soul12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19It's about time!

    (poor pun i know)
  • Chmarr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"The Winner! It's you!"

    (From http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/19369 ... for the uneducated :) )
  • CalZStudios, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I feel special.
    • CeeJayDK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You ARE special.

      Always remember that in this entire world in which we live in, there is only ONE of you.
      You are someone truly unique and very special.

      .. just like everybody else ;-)
  • Hegemony, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Sweet... and my sixth grade teacher said I'd never amount to anything. Take that you skanky bitch!
  • foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I thank all the little people who helped me here....
  • ZombyWoof78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What are they smoking over there? I think I might want some!
  • systemghost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Hey I'm famous! Hi mom!
  • Amusing, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Although some will label it a cop out I see it as a refreshing and creative point of view.
  • sk545, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think they meant the internet, but that would be the "thing of the year". Oh well, i will take me anyday.
  • shadekeiko, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Hmmm...I was certain they were going to choose Jon Stewart and/or Colbert for this.
    • berwiki, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Stewart would be a lame choice, his show pales in comparison.

  • WombatBob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28I've been the Time person of the year twice now. Once a few years ago when it was the "US Soldiers" although I'm a marine not a soldier, and again this year.
  • ckr4282, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Yes, my life is finally complete!
    • chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -8/+21Wasn't "getting laid" on your list. You have to do that first.

      (;
  • tw0k1ngs, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Time needs to learn about singulars and plurals. I did not make YouTube what it has become, nor MySpace, nor Digg. We did. If it was a "person" of the year it should be either "Tom" or "Kevin Rose."
    • ShadySpace, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1.kh
    • ostracize, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That's retarded, without the users, those sites wouldn't exist and those names would fade into obscurity.
    • Avalontor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1they never mentioned Digg in the article. Are you assuming?
  • postitnote, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Ha... take THAT Hitler. He's been gloating about his person of the year award for a while now.
  • autoacat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8Well, better this than George W. Bush which they did one year :P
  • bf5man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24With their reflective cover, i can't help but think about this great shot from the Big Lebowski: http://static.twoday.net/augenzuppler/images/lebowski_time_mirror.jpg
  • Shorties, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3So all Digg users are the Time Person of the year!
  • consonance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In the words of Big Rigs, You're winner!
  • Daniel591992, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"I would like to thank..."

    (start a list)
  • MagnetoWasRight, on 10/12/2007, -14/+8I love how all y'all are always saying, "Digg is the future! Recognize Digg!" Then Time more or less does, and y'all go on the attack.

    Here's the text of the article, since it's quite good and none of you will bother reading it otherwise:

    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.

    To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. 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 PlayStation3s.

    But look at 2006 through a different lens and 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. 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.

    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.

    And we are so ready for it. 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.

    And we didn't just watch, we also worked. Like crazy. We made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded podcasts. We blogged about our candidates losing and wrote songs about getting dumped. We camcordered bombing runs and built open-source software.

    America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We're looking at an explosion of productivity and innovation, and it's just getting started, as millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.

    Who are these people? Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?

    The answer is, you do. And 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 you.

    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.

    But that's what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There's no road map for how an organism that's not a bacterium lives and works together on this planet in numbers in excess of 6 billion. But 2006 gave us some ideas. This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person. 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.
    • sw0rdfish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Nice comment... but why repost the entire thing? You're just gonna get dugg down.

      I agree with you though, I hardly find it a "cop out". The writer of the article makes some very valid points and it's hard to argue that the influence we've had on the world this year hasn't been the more influencial on the world than any other one person.

      Who would you give Person of the Year to?
    • laceration, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MagnetoWasRight was right.
      Why does "cop out" get dugg? There's no explanation and its stupid. I am absolutely stoked by Web 2.0. Instead the media spoon feeding us anyone can comment on anything. That's what Time is recognizing--Great choice Time!
  • avolant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12you're in control!

    now please buy our *****.
  • Dhalsim007, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Wow....I really wasn't expecting this....
    I'd like to thank the Academy for this tremendous honor. All the hard work I put in this past year has paid off.
    I'd like to thank ...**music starts playing**....Oh, f*&^! stop the music I'm not DONE yet!!!
  • MagnetoWasRight, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Also, nice iMac.
  • elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well, it's better than 1982's which wasn't even a person.
  • EmmSee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5So YouTube basically won the award... they're using the YouTube video screen format on the cover. I agree with the ones before... TOTAL COP-OUT
  • ShadySpace, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Great article. WE make Youtube what it is, WE make Digg what it is, etc. Why should we laud those few above the many simply because they provided the outlet? Youtube is simply a place to post videos, why the hell should they be Person(s) of the Year? The most promising thing about the internet is that it is the best equaliser in human history, anyone can say what they like and people can listen to what they like. The important thing is that it's all our own individual choice.
  • phesen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Very lame and lazy of Time. I was hoping it would of been somebody interesting that they would have to write a convincing article about like Iran's president or Chavez. But no, they bowed out like amateurs.. ha - the mag is nothing like it used to be... (^_^)
    • sw0rdfish, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Like I mentioned above, while there is no doubt what you're talking about is real, and makes perfect sense, and are two good candidates for Time's choice.... in an age where close to 50% of people don't vote, and I'd bet 80% don't care about politics more than once every 4 years... what "web 2.0" has done to the world this year, has been far more influential than any politician, or athlete etc...

      I think it's a well thought out choice, and I have to agree with it.
  • buuch, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7this line was just retarded: "America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—" how the ***** does Jobs fit in with Einstein and Edison?!?!?!?!?
    • beotch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3He fits in with Edison because both are marketing droids and not actual inventors of anything.
  • codemonkey2841, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7If you're going to cop out like that, why not cop out with style. "This year, we at Time magazine decided to make Jesus the person of the year. Thank you Jesus for saving our souls and damning those dirty sinners to hell."
  • CELTIC212, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Who ---- me?
    • ei8htball, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6No, You!
    • postitnote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Smokey: Only who can prevent forest fires?
      (Bart presses the "You" button.)
      Smokey: You pressed "You," referring to me. That is incorrect. The correct answer is "You".
    • tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Eight ball, I meant to click reply and dugg your comment down by mistake. That said, I loved the Simpsons reference.
  • hosstile, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I read my subscription of Time while in the loo, it's piled right next to People, TV Guide and all the other trashing magazines out there. Where do you read your Time?

    And before you bring up the ''why buy it then'' retort, I want to make it clear that I used to enjoy reading my Time magazine and sometimes waited anxiously for it to arrive (alongside a countless number of other papers and journals). But it has degenerated into covering trivial sensationalisation and a passively subtle bias on current affairs that pains you inside when reading. I guess I'm hoping one day it will rise up and seize the moment again, with articles that really matter written in true journalistic fashion and with no ***** inbetween...

    Alas, I also accept 'Person of the Year' from Time, though I'll be using the page it was printed on as toilet paper long before I attempt to justify its reasoning.
    • jytsai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The magazine you are looking for is already here. It's called The Economist.
    • tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'd agree. Extemporaneous mostly uses the Economist (in theory). I like it; I think it's a a good magazine. However, some "culture" questions are taken from time. "How has e-learning impaced America?", as opposed to "What is a feasible policy for the US to use in Iraq?" Real hard-hitting stuff.
  • adamsorkin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Lazy.
  • Fetching more discussions...
    Show 51 - 100 of 100 discussions
  •  

    Login or register to add a comment

    Create a new account or login to join in the conversation on Digg. You'll also be able to Digg stories to help promote things you like.


© Digg Inc. 2008 — Content posted by Digg users is dedicated to the public domain.
DIGG, DIGG IT, DUGG, DIGG THIS, Digg graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.