... and also every one of you reading this. Or so says Time magazine

The cover of Time Magazine's Dec. 25, 2006 "Person of the Year" issue, shown in this image released by Time, Inc., in New York, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006, proclaims that "You" are Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." Time, citing the shift from institutions to individuals as part of the criteria for selecting their "Person of the Year," has named anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web as their 2006 winner. (AP Photo/Time, Inc.)

NEW YORK --Congratulations! You are the Time magazine "Person of the Year."

The annual honor for 2006 went to each and every one of us, as Time cited the shift from institutions to individuals -- citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine put it. The winners this year were anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web.

"If you choose an individual, you have to justify how that person affected millions of people," said Richard Stengel, who took over as Time's managing editor earlier this year. "But if you choose millions of people, you don't have to justify it to anyone."

The magazine did cite 26 "People Who Mattered," from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to Pope Benedict XVI to the troika of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

And Stengel said if the magazine had decided to go with an individual, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the likely choice. "It just felt to me a little off selecting him," Stengel said.

The 2006 "Person of the Year" package hits newsstands Monday. The cover shows a white keyboard with a mirror for a computer screen where buyers can see their reflection.

It was not the first time the magazine went away from naming an actual person for its "Person of the Year." In 1966, the 25-and-under generation was cited; in 1975, American women were named; and in 1982, the computer was chosen.
"I always love it when it's a person -- and it is a person, not a computer or something like that," Stengel said. "We just felt there wasn't a single person who embodied this phenomenon."

Last year's winners were Bill and Melinda Gates and rock star Bono, who were cited for their charitable work and activism aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health.

interesting!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a7Bd.jE67PBQ&refer=us

EVEN i am the person of the year , hmm . things have so generalized .. and i was opting to see those YOUTUBE makers grab that fame!

"Just an example of a sad and no longer relevant publication trying to pretend they're groundbreaking and cutting edge by jumping on the bandwagon of an overhyped niche phenomenon".

PR stunt is all it is.

hahahahahahahahaha...
my oh my captain! what a pleasant surprise! hehe...this year has been full of surprises for me. i have bagged the most prestigeous nobel prize of sajha already :P and now this one (critically acclaimed) - 'Time - Person of the year" hehe...i am going great guns for sure and looking at this rate of success and recognition, i may have to look into retirement plans hahahahahaha...but nah! i am not done. :P.

thanks for this heartening gesture and yeah, as someone suggested, everyone deserves to be the person of the year (at least in sajha) and who deserves it more than YOU! :P

so here i go,

LooTe's- person of the year,
without an ounce of doubt or dilemma goes to ***drum beats******

--CAPTAIN........................... HADDOCK!

taliya taliya hahahahaha :P

LooTe

new commer of the year............ goes to

************rocky*********

HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL............

THE MOST VERSATILE PERSON OF THE YEAR.............

CAPTAIN.......... HAD....... OF PIRATES OF CA.............

-ROC............

LMAO, Loote! If they are going to give it to every user of the web who generates content, I figured who could be more worthy of the award than our very own Loote for the volume and nature of content that comes out from his keyboard and how suddenly keyboards around the world spring to life when he clicks the 'Submit' button. LOL! :D

Acharya - I actually agree with that assesment to an extent . At the end of the day, things like these really dont mean much. Nonetheless, it does provide some entertainment value, if not anything else, no? :)

Rocky - Keep rocking, NKOTB ..he he ;) You've won quite a few people over already and all the best with the rest :) May you live to be a hundred years in Sajha age and post on a million threads!

:)

i ALREADY SENT ABOUT AA MILLION WORDS IN SAJHA..... FOR SURE... BUT DON'T KNOW ABOUT A MILLION THREAD.....

WELL i KNOW WHAT A MILLION WORD MEAN....... BUT i AM GOING WID REALITY NOT THOSE APROXIMATE......

i DON'T LIKE THIS PHRASE......... A MILLION..... SRY CAPTAIN.........

THE VERSATILE PERSON OF THE YEAR........

-ROCKEND

Congratulations Loote!!! clap clap clap......
Rocky, don't whine like a kid..well you r a kid...:)

sndy nice to see you back....

Welll I am waht I am......... well I can't change myself ........

but if you say so....I'll try not to do that........... ehehe!!!!!!!!!!!

thankyou for ur sweet..........!!!!! like lakhamarii re kya.......... suggestion.....

-Rockend

Nice to see me back..thanks but where did I go??

i DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU WERE LOST..........

i DIDN'T SEE UR APPEARANCE IN ANY OF THE THREAD YESTERDAY AND THE DAY BEFORE........ SNDY.......

WELL i WILLL VOTE FOR YOU FOR THE SAJHA PERSON OF THE YEAR....... SNDY........IF I HAVE TO DO A VOTE FOR SAJHA PERSON OF THE YEAR.....2006

-ROCKEND

Well, Thanks Rocky..But I'm not worthy of that award..It surely needs to go to Lootebhai..:) And why r u shouting??

I ain't shouting ....... sndy I am wishpering....

see you'll find it when you'll see the thread another song playing in my mind.......

-Rockend