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美國「時代雜誌」2006年「年度風雲人物」就是「你」。

「你」是指所有在互聯網使用和提供資訊者。

'Person of the Year': You

 美國「時代雜誌」年度特刊的封面是一組電腦，有白色鍵盤配上一面像鏡子一樣的電腦螢幕，讓任何電腦使用者都可以將自己的臉反映在電腦螢幕上。Time magazine Editor Richard Stengel, holds the Time Person of the Year magazine. And the winner is you: anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web.

雜誌編輯指，社會大眾正改寫資訊時代，每個人都有份建構新的數碼民主，Internet 近日興起由使用者提供內容的網站，包括網絡日誌，分享錄影片段和網上聯誼等，正影響數以百萬計的人。

這表示，推動世界走向更現代化的網路世代，電腦使用者是最具影響力的人物。

據瞭解，這並不是「時代雜誌」第一次選出「非具體人物」作為年度風雲人物，早在1966年，時代雜誌選出「25歲以下的年輕人」為風雲人物，1975年是「美國婦女」，1982年則是「電腦」入選。

去年獲選為「時代雜誌」年度風雲人物的是比爾蓋茲夫婦及搖滾歌手「波諾」，表彰他們致力慈善事業、努力降低全球貧窮及改善世界衛生的貢獻。

12/17/2006        美國「時代雜誌」2006年「年度風雲人物」就是「你」

'Person of the Year': You

You were named Time magazine "Person of the Year" today for the explosive growth and influence of user-generated internet content such as blogs, video-file sharing site YouTube and social network MySpace.

"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," the magazine's Lev Grossman wrote.

The magazine has put a mirror on the cover of its "Person of the Year" issue, released on Monday, "because it literally reflects the idea that you, not us, are transforming the information age", Editor Richard Stengel said in a statement.

You beat candidates including Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, China's President Hu Jintao, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and James Baker, the former US Secretary of State who led Washington's bipartisan Iraq Study Group.

Time has been naming its person of the year since 1927 and the tradition has become the source of speculation every year, as well as controversy over unpopular choices such as Adolf Hitler in 1938 and Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.

The aim is to pick "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse".

Grossman said the creators and consumers of user-generated internet sites showed a community and collaboration on a scale never seen before.

"It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes," said Grossman, Time's technology writer and book critic.

"The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web," he said. "It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter."

MySpace - bought by media giant News Corp last year for $US580 million ($742.21 million) - has more than 130 million users around the world and adds around 300,000 members a day, while YouTube - bought by internet search leader Google Inc last month for $US1.65 billion ($2.11 billion) - gets about 100 million daily views.

"These blogs and videos bring events to the rest of us in ways that are often more immediate and authentic than traditional media," Stengel said.

"Journalists once had the exclusive province of taking people to places they'd never been. But now a mother in Baghdad with a videophone can let you see a roadside bombing or a patron in a nightclub can show you a racist rant by a famous comedian," he said.

Time's 2005 Person of the Year was the richest man in the world, Bill Gates, his wife Melinda, and Irish rocker Bono for being Good Samaritans, while the 2004 choice was US President George W Bush. In 2003 "The American Soldier" graced the cover in a year when US troops invaded Iraq.