I’m going to save my saliva on this one. If you haven’t heard YOU are Time’s person of the year because UGC has done so much to change the world this year (Iraq? Lebanon? Palestine? China? India? Definitely nothing going on there). Dominic Knight of the Radar sums it up best:

This strikes me as another one of those lamo attempts by an old-media publication to show that it’s oh-so hip to the Digital Revolution. Mmm, yeah, YouTube and MySpace. Incredible. Facebook, Flickr, Wikipedia, Del.icio.us, Friendster, Second Life, blogging, yada yada yada. There hasn’t been this much hype around the internet since the bubble burst five years ago. And most of that hype isn’t user-generated. It’s magazines like TIME flailing to pretend that they’re staying abreast of changes that their own hype says will threaten their very existence.

Check out his whole article here

I would link you to the full TIME article, but I don’t think they deserve my Page Rank vote, let alone my massive traffic. Google Person of the Year and if a Time Warner link pops up under paid search ads, make sure you click those instead of the natural search listings for good measure. Good attempt at link bait though, I hope the entire blogosphere NOFOLLOW’s your incoming links for the next decade.

That would be pretty funny.

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