Person of the Year: You(Time)

面白い。。。今年のperson of the yearはYou、「あなた」だそうな。

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.

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.

私も、ブログを書いたりGarage Bandで音楽作って動画を作ってYouTubeにアップしたりSecond Lifeで建物作ったりしてきた。私が作った殆どのコンテンツはジャンクだけど、そのジャンクを喜んでくれる人もわずかながらいて、それはそれで価値があることだと思う。

ちなみに発表の号の表紙は鏡になっているそうな♪