The 2006 "Person of the Year" package hits newsstands Monday. The cover shows a white keyboard with a mirror for a computer screen [and "You." in the center] where buyers can see their reflection. ...
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.
-- AOL News
Oh, I feel so special. Still, I concur -- the Web provides a whole new world with great effects on democracy, including providing information, allowing people new means of coming together, and taking part in the grand messy thing we call "democracy." Not always pretty, but then neither were the days when cheap pamphlets and nights at the pub were core means of democratic action. Besides, again, makes people feel special -- their email forwarding a lame joke to their friends helped to make them a "person of the year!" Others want to ruin it. (h/t Atrios)
Anyway, feels so much like Christmas ... sixty degrees and all is perfect mid-December weather.