Well done, you’re the Person of the Year 2006! Or you are according to Time magazine, at least. Reflecting on the growing number of global online communities and the trend towards user-generated content, think MySpace, blogging, corporate crowdsourcing, social bookmarking and the “cosmic compendium”, Wikipedia, Time says that 2006 was all about the many wrestling “power away from the few”, was about the ‘long tail’ of previously unheard voices finding their voice and presenting their thoughts, their creations, to the global network.
The geeks in Silicon Valley, the article continues, call this phenomenon Web 2.0 – the two-way web – but Time looks at it as more of a revolution, “an explosion of productivity and innovation”, a seizing of “the reins of global media”. And, hats off, it’s all down to you.