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.

web 2.0, library 2.0, lib20, time magazine, person of the year, you, power to the person

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.

3 Comments

Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI

Leave a comment

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

Website

 

User contributed tags for this post:

WWW PINK WORLD COM (137) - pink world com (99) - WWW PINK COM (60) - WWW PINK WORLD SEX COM (42) - www/pink com (27) - media fuck com (26) - WWW WORLD FUCK COM (24) - welcome to your world (23) - WWW PINK VISUAL COM (23) - pink visual com (22) - WWWPINK WORLD COM (19) - fuck com (18) - world fuck com (17) - www.xxxworld.com (15) - www world sex com (14) - www.pink world.com (14) - WWW GOOGLE WORLD COM (13) - WWW WORLD WIDE SEX COM (13) - wwwpink.com (13) - WWW XXX WORLD COM (13) - www.pinc world.com (13) - wwwpink world.com (12) - WWW PINK WORLD (10) - www.worldvideosex.com (10) - WWW WORLD SEX (10) - xxxworld.com (9) - www pink video world com (9) - www.pink world sex.com (8) - WWWPINK WORLD (8) - WWW WORLD PINK COM (8) - pink world sex (8) - pinkworld (7) - about (7) - IN (7) - WWW PINK SEX WORLD COM (7) - xxx fuck com (7) - www.world wide sex.com (7) - force fuck (7) - www.pink.com (6) - www.google.world sex (6) - WWW Google World Sex Com (6) - www.world fuck.com (5) - www.pink.world.com.sex.com (5) - XXX world sex com (5) - www world sex arhives com (5) - F (5) - www.google.world.com (5) - force fuck com (5) - www.sex.pink.world.com (5) - www google/world com (5) - www sex pink com (5) - WWW world sexcom (5) - fuck competition (4) - wwwpink (4) - forced fuck (4) - pink world.com (4) - www pink video com (4) - pincworld (4) - www.xxxworldcom (4) - www.pinksexworld.com (4) - www-xxxworldcom (4) - www.xxx.world.com (4) - world sex com (4) - WWW World sex video com (4) - www/pink.world/sex.com// (4) - WWW.Pink world.com sex.com (4) - wwwpinksexcom (4) - xxx.pink world (3) - www.pinksex.com (3) - wwwpink'com;;; (3) - pink world (3) - www world fuck.com (3) - www..xxx.world.com (3) - www.pink world fuck.com (3) - www xxx fuck com (3) - psp-image-u0nmbb (3) - www pink visual (3) - worldsexvideo.net (3) - www xxx world (3) - forced to fuck com (3) - pinc world.com (3) - google world com (3) - welcome to world fuck (3) - Pink World SEXVideo (3) - fuck the world com (3) - www.xxxworld.com. (3) - sex pink world com (3) - www.google.world.sex.com (3) - o (3) - pink sex world com (3) - WWWPINK PINK WORLD MAKER COM (3) - fuck world com (3) - pink world xxx (3) - youtube videos pink world sex (2) - wwwpank world (2) - www pink world sex.com (2) - wwwpink.world.com (2) - worldvideosex.com (2) - www.pink world.com. (2) - wwwpink bikes com (2) - w.w.world sex.com (2) - welcome fuck (2) - google.world.com (2) - pink world sex.com (2) - world fuck competition (2) - www pink world video com (2) - www.pinc sexcom (2) - ? WWWPINK WORLD .COM (2) - www.Pink-Video.com (2) - www world wide video com (2) - www pink world arhives com (2) - site:maisonbisson com wwwpink com (2) - www,xxxworld sex.com (2) - www world wild sex com (2) - www.xxx.fuck.com (2) - xxx.world.com (2) - WWW.SEX.PINK.COM (2) - www google pink world com (2) - www pink world com sex com (2) - www.sex\pink world.com (2) - www.world sex video.com (2) - www pink world sex video com (2) - pink world sex video.com (2) - www.pink sex world.com (2) - pinkworld.sex come (2) - pink com xxx (2) - world sex 98.com (2) - w.w.w.pink world com (2) - WWW SEX WORLD COM (2) - 1 (2) - www;pink;sex;com (2) - www.pinkworldsex.com (2) - pink world fuck (2) - pinkworld com (2) - WWW WORLD OF SEX (2) - xxx pink world com (2) - fuck the world com email (2) - www.pinkworldvideo.coom (2) - www,pink,world,com,sex,com (2) - worldbluefilm (2) - pink world'six'com (2) - xxx pink world (2) - www.world wild sex.com (2) - www.sexworld.com (2) - www earth world com (2) - world pink com (2) - www sex pink world com (2) - Pink world.com.sex.com (2) - w.w.w.pink world sex.com (2) - www pink world sex (2) -