Rants and Ramblings: random commentary about culture, media, politics, technology and whatnot.

My reaction was and will always be “Cop Out, Time magazine”

I was kind of torn on the issue. It seems like a nice way to sum up the past few years of individual-empowerment through technology, but I kinda wanted them to take a side on a political issue of some kind.

My favorite thing about this, though is that on the same page of the website, Chrysler was running an ad that says “You might not be the person of the year….but you can drive like one.”

PS: I wanted to find the screenshot, but I couldn’t because 80% of the time when I use Technorati, I get an error message. How can a popular service be this horribly unreliable?

Ask and ye shall receive. That ad is kinda funny.

What bugs me about this isn’t that “you” isn’t a valid selection, but, rather, that it’s too safe and uncontroversial. And I don’t think that, as you put it, “individual-empowerment through technology” is sufficiently mainstream yet to get a nod. It’s increasingly influential and certainly important, but I don’t think it’s quite there yet.

Historically, “Person of the Year” was supposed to denote the person with the strongest influence over the events of the year — for better or worse. It’s not necessarily meant to be an “award.”

I too was disappointed. I think it was a cop out and I was so bored with the article I couldn’t even get myself to read it. Though, I picked up a USA Today on the airplane this morning and if that paper isn’t normally a huge disappointment it further hit home to me how out of place I’m going to feel in the US with all the overblown news stories of celebrities, serial killers, and hype about sports stars. I haven’t slept either so take this all with a grain of salt :o).