Time Magazines Person of the Year is You

I finally got the chance to read Time Magazine’s Person of the Year issue. If you are lucky, you can still find a paper copy on newsstands.

Essentially, the magazine covers social media on the web. The articles are definitely worth reading especially if you are new to the concepts of social media. For MSM coverage it is not bad, though I wished for a less Googlecentric/YouTube approach. A better history of social media can definitely be written.

Below are links to the Time articles with a short sentence describing each.

• Introduction – Overview of Web 2.0 and what makes it about YOU.
• Power to the People – Profiles of social media users.
• Your Web, Your Way – Graph depicting some of the major players in Web 2.0. Unfortunately, the graphic itself did not make it online, it is only available in the print edition.
• A Beast with a Billion Eyes – The role of video in our modern and internetfied age.
• The YouTube Gurus – Article about the founders of YouTube
• Web Boom 2.0 – How this Internet bubble is different from the bubble of the late 90′s early 2000′s/.
• My So-called Second Life – Extraneous article on virtual worlds. If anything, many will find it eye opening.
• Enough About You – Reflections on YOU by Brian Williams, anchor of NBC Nightly News
• Its All About Us – The role of the amateur

If you view the material online, there are several other articles that are not included in the print magazine.

Several of the blog posts that follow include my own commentary on the issues raised within these articles.