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Time magazine reduces mainstream media to mere bloggers
While poking around the web this afternoon looking for something interesting to talk about I ran across this article in response to Time magazine’s recent issue that named “Everyone” as Person of the Year. The writer writes for the Washington Post Writers Group and while reading his article I began to feel a little unappreciated. That I and so many others worked so hard to earn this prestigious award and to have a “professional” come out and say that 99.9 percent of what we all do lacks “seriousness” is rather hurtful or spiteful, maybe even a little jealous. It goes something like this:
There are, however, essentially no reins on the Web — few means of control and direction. That is good, but vitiates the idea that the Web’s chaos of entertainment, solipsism and occasional intellectual seriousness and civic engagement is anything like a polity (a “digital democracy”). Time’s bow to the amateurs who are, it strangely suggests, no longer obscure, and in the same game that Time is in, is refuted by a glance — which is all an adult will want — at You-Tube’s most popular videos.
Time.com named me Person of the Year
Wow! What an honor. Who would have thought that a magazine as large a Time would have noticed little ole me. That’s great, is there a check that comes with that?
Seriously though, Time.com’s recent cover story is interesting, one that panders to the individuals that have helped shape what has become the information age; bloggers, social networkers, YouTubers, etc. Their cover proudly proclaims:
And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME’s Person of the Year for 2006 is you.
Send friends a hug via Bluetooth enabled shirt
Enter the Hug Shirt, named by Time Magazine as one of the best inventions of 2006. An interesting concept this one is, it’s a shirt with Bluetooth padded sensors sewn into the fabric. Whenever one person that’s wearing a Hug Shirt gives themselves a hug, the sensors pick it up and send it via Bluetooth to the wearers cell phone. That in turn is transmitted to a friend cellphone and if the friend is also wear a Hug Shirt, they then feel the squeeze, with the same amount of pressure applied. Designers say it will come in different colors and the sensors are removable, so they can be moved from shirt to shirt. The Hug Shirt is not in production yet.
