While I tried to grapple with how to describe how utterly lame Time’s Person of the Year was (its “You”, thanks to the rise of user generated media, web2.0, YouTube, MySpace etc etc), there were three things about it that I happened upon
1) Its been done before, by Business2.0
2) It shows absolutely no creativity or conviction — saying “You” is like saying “we don’t have the gumption to choose a real winner, so EVERYONE wins!”
3) There was someone who echoed my sentiments even better. If salty language offends delicate sensibilities, don’t go here. A small tasty tidbit: “the entire point of the exercise is that everyone doesn’t get a medal for participating. The purpose of the issue is to address the person or persons who, for bad or worse, most affected world events of that year. So they picked… everyone? Well of course everyone affected world events the most … “
December 18th, 2006 at 10:15 am | Permalink
i can never remember whether link bait is two words or if its hyphenated…
maybe the MSM does get social media after all! Time just raised its SEO something chronic!
Ed
December 18th, 2006 at 10:22 am | Permalink
Ah … but I didn’t actually link to them ;)
December 18th, 2006 at 10:23 am | Permalink
but about a million other bloggers have
;-D
Ed
December 18th, 2006 at 10:35 am | Permalink
TRUE!
But what are they saying about Time when they link back?
Or does it all fall under the “any pub is good pub”? :)
December 18th, 2006 at 10:37 am | Permalink
more like “any link is a good link” from Time’s POV. their content “should” be much more findable now!
Ed
December 18th, 2006 at 10:39 am | Permalink
Speaking of findable, what would be funny is if Time was Googlebombed, so that if one typed in LAME, up would come up the Time Person of the Year.
Heh heh … oh, that would be devious. ;)