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Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

It’s me! I am the Time Magazine Person of the Year, joining a list of several US Presidents, Bill and Melida Gates, the Queen, and Gandhi, to name but a few. You might be more surprised, though, to find that I’m sharing this year’s honour… with you. Yes, you.

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.

Awww…

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