In pointing this out to me, Lichen noted “if this isn’t evidence that Web2.0 is an undeniable force, I don’t know what is.”

“This,” of course, is Time Magazine’s announcement of the 2006 Person of the Year. And the answer is you. Yes, you.

Michael Stephens was right on top of it, pulling this quote:

…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.

This is well-trodden ground here at MaisonBisson, but it’s still a tickle to see it in mass media. Extra: I got excited about the possibilities of all this for the art world a while back in my presentation, Art vs. The Google Economy.

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Posted December 18, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: lib20, library 2.0, person of the year, power to the person, time magazine, web 2.0, you.

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