Comments on: Time’s Person of the Year: You http://www.chezpete.com/blog/2006/12/18/times-person-of-the-year-you/ Rewind. Replay. Reinvent. Re-Pete. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:47:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Ian http://www.chezpete.com/blog/2006/12/18/times-person-of-the-year-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1041 Ian Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:04:50 +0000 http://www.chezpete.com/blog/2006/12/18/times-person-of-the-year-you/#comment-1041 Sure, the communications progressions made this past year were extraordinary (don't forget cell phone videos of saddam, michael richards, etc), but have we actually realized a time when most people use blogs or youtube for anything much beyond amusement? The noise of boredom still overshadows the signal of useful, life-permeating information-sharing, even if this past year has proven the potential of people so privileged to embrace new forms of communication. Shouldn't a "Person of the Year" have more substance than imagination? Sure, the communications progressions made this past year were extraordinary (don’t forget cell phone videos of saddam, michael richards, etc), but have we actually realized a time when most people use blogs or youtube for anything much beyond amusement? The noise of boredom still overshadows the signal of useful, life-permeating information-sharing, even if this past year has proven the potential of people so privileged to embrace new forms of communication.

Shouldn’t a “Person of the Year” have more substance than imagination?

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