Screw your pathetic forum awards, I am TIME's PERSON OF THE YEAR

[Jawn]

.....AND SO ARE YOU!

Time Magazine's Person of the year (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html)


I'd like to thank God, my mum, my dad, my brother, my manager, my sponsors, all my fans and groupies YOU GUYS ROCK!!!! And also Time magazine for giving me this award... *sniff* you love me you REALLLYYY love me! *cries*.

[*M!]

i might actually buy time magazine if they put you on the cover Jawn!

*M!

[Johnny_Wah]

I like giraffes.

[`Julia]

I like giraffes.

Uh me too...?

[mel_bound]

Wow, TIME got super lazy this year methinks.

[Tyler_who]

I love eating Giraffes

[Sammas]

Wow, TIME got super lazy this year methinks.

The reference to you refers to Web 2.0 which will probably be one of the key events that this decade will become historically renowned for. They use the word "You" because web 2.0 is based entirely on user participation and folksonomy (yes, they even needed to invent a new word for the user specified "tag" system thats used to map out the content, like all the videos on youtube for example).

I think most young people take it for granted, like most modern technologies. The reason why there is just "you" instead of an actual name of someone is because the realisation and success of web 2.0 websites like myspace, youtube, last.fm, wikipedia, etc depends entirely on you as a participating user and contributer.

You could imagine what websites like youtube or myspace would be like if no one uploaded videos or participated... Any content that you find on those sites has been added entirely by the users that frequent them.

[mel_bound]

The reference to you refers to Web 2.0 which will probably be one of the key events that this decade will become historically renowned for. They use the word "You" because web 2.0 is based entirely on user participation and folksonomy (yes, they even needed to invent a new word for the user specified "tag" system thats used to map out the content, like all the videos on youtube for example).

I think most young people take it for granted, like most modern technologies. The reason why there is just "you" instead of an actual name of someone is because the realisation and success of web 2.0 websites like myspace, youtube, last.fm, wikipedia, etc depends entirely on you as a participating user and contributer.

You could imagine what websites like youtube or myspace would be like if no one uploaded videos or participated... Any content that you find on those sites has been added entirely by the users that frequent them.

I'm pretty sure I got the jist of why they chose 'you' as the person of the year, I was being stupid. As usual ;). But thanks for writing all that up, you have made it alot clearer now. No wonder you won the TIME person of the year :p

[Sammas]

*removes hat and takes a bow*

Its my greatest claim to fame :D

[dirty man]

damm you jawn, thank the groupies but dont thank me

[Jawn]

The reference to you refers to Web 2.0 which will probably be one of the key events that this decade will become historically renowned for. They use the word "You" because web 2.0 is based entirely on user participation and folksonomy (yes, they even needed to invent a new word for the user specified "tag" system thats used to map out the content, like all the videos on youtube for example).

I think most young people take it for granted, like most modern technologies. The reason why there is just "you" instead of an actual name of someone is because the realisation and success of web 2.0 websites like myspace, youtube, last.fm, wikipedia, etc depends entirely on you as a participating user and contributer.

You could imagine what websites like youtube or myspace would be like if no one uploaded videos or participated... Any content that you find on those sites has been added entirely by the users that frequent them.

I fail to see how youtube, myspace, and other like minded websites are worthy of being considered this. Mind you, it has been a pretty slow year. George W keeps on at it in Iraq, and is failing by his own admission. The Iran president told the US to stick it and continued with their nuclear stuff, but I think they've stopped now. North Korea launched a bunch of test missiles which caused the rest of the world to say "WHAT THE FUCK!?!?". Lebonon blew chunks out of Israel, and Israel blew chunks out of Lebanon (and Palestine). Really, there wasn't anyting much in the news this year except for powerful people being right royal bastards. Time said that they were actually going to give it to the Iranian guy but they said that they were afraid of a backlash. What sooks. They gave it to Hitler for crying out loud.

What I'm saying is, this award is really a lazy copout so TIME wouldn't have to give the award to a fuckwit.

[Mirm]

Well they could have given it to me, then. I'm pretty good, and I don't think I screwed up once this year.

[Tyler_who]

Well i think that


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[Armistice]

I can check one more thing off my list of "Things to do before I die"

:cool:

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

Sorry everyone but you're no longer time's person of the year. Unless you're mr Putin.

http://aftermathnews.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/putin_cold_warrior.jpg

[The Dying Start]

Vladimir! Woosaahhhhhh!