Times Person Of The Year
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- Nairn0
Oosh, it's a toughie when you actually think about it, isn't it? That's kind of my point though, we're in shit if there's no one who really stands out.
I'd go with Hugo Chavez, for want of anyone better - at least he's making an unifying impact, despite it not necessarily being compatible with 'our' worldview.
- Jaline0
Do you people just want one specific person as the "person of the year"? Does anyone care about this and think about it every year when the magazine comes out with its decision?
Just curious, because I don't think I care much :\
- ********0
I don't necessarily care that much, but I sure as hell would like it to be an actual person, haha.
But perhaps I can use this article in my plight to bring my company out of the dark ages in terms of user experience for the most part, haha.
Well that's putting them in bad light, they aren't necessarily in the dark ages.
We sure aren't on the bleeding edge, nor exactly the cutting edge though. :X
Again for UI, not what happens behind the scenes.
- aliceblue0
it seems you may be missing the point. it is about shaping a new world, a virtual one, that has a great impact on the daily experiences and opinions of people in the world...
Crouwel
(Dec 17 06, 08:17)And I wished i had missed that post a while ago where you linked to an "artist" who created cat purses.
I couldn't believe it when I saw her grinning face, knife in hand, and dead skinned cat on kitchen counter.
Oh, yes, it certainly is shaping a new world.
- mpfree0
Er, you're dad held up a sign that said 'FUCK, I KNEW I ROCKED!" When you were born? He must've to have impregnated your mom's lower intestine. Powerful sperm there...
TheBlueOne
(Dec 17 06, 10:05)yes, hence the 'Pocket Rocket' moniker he gave himself. We Rockefellers like to give ourselves names.
- Nairn0
lol aliceblue - what difference a cat than any other animal purses are made from, other than sentimentality?
ps. Crouwel - you wouldn't have that link handy, would you? I can't find it in my bookmarks.
- _salisae_0
seems the grouse comes more from the fact that there isn't a person of the year .. at a point when we desperately need a number of possible nominees to wear the earth's millstone around their neck
instead we have 'thanks for the add' forging our future
- aliceblue0
interesting you would find it funny nairn
- mpfree0
my cunt hurtz
- Nairn0
instead we have 'thanks for the add' forging our future
_salisae_
(Dec 17 06, 10:43)nice!
Humanity's infinite capacity for noise drowning out anything of use, for a thousand years. The boot in our collective face - each other's.
- Nairn0
how so, aliceblue?
interesting as in in 'typical!'? or interesting as in 'i'm shocked beyond belief that someone so utterly lovely, as nairn is, could think highly of something so horrible'?
- aliceblue0
I always thought of you as lovely, nairn :)
- Nairn0
You and me both, sister!
* puts on catskin cap and dances a [slightly too enthusiastic] celebratory jig in own honour
- aliceblue0
*has second thoughts about nairn
- Nairn0
Not when you see that cat cap I'm wearing, you won't!
* carries on jigging away
- Complexfruit0
Oh yeah!
*high five
It's good to be me.
- JoshClancy0
I have to agree with Crouwel...
Times have changed. Get over it and with it. Never has the world been so accessible and if we've learned anything from history you can bet that the more means of communication the better. Its the transferring of ideas that keeps things progressing.
Yeah you can be pessimistic and bitch and moan about corporations and money hungry executives but its ALWAYS been that way. The whole "Everyones out to get me" approach is going to get you nowhere.
I can not tell you how positive technology and web 2 has been for me in the last year on all levels... whether it be business, networking, entertainment. Why? because I don't run away from it I use it to my advantage.
- ********0
in this case, having the "masses shaping the world" is a terrible one, because the mass does not exist per se. it's just people trying to make a buck through an enourmous amount of gibberish that has no worth, is always mediocre, and is consuming us all, and our time just to wade through.
Witt
(Dec 17 06, 10:13)that's an extremely derogatory and sweeping generalizing statement, Witt.
There are lots of people sharing information that are beneficial to the state of the world. there are lots of activists and idealists exchanging ideas and information online.
from the bloggers from Iraq and other troubled nations up to the ones that trigger protests, petitions and even offline conferences that have their basis in an online environment.
just because there exists a lot of cynicism amongst many people here and elswhere online does not mean that the initiatives and forceful perseverance of ideals does not exist at all online. and therefore it is rather saddening to see that some of you really believe that all attempts to create communities are futile if not totally worthless. even though there is a lot of mediocre material out there does not mean you have to take a derogatory stance on "the masses" as everyone has their own intentions and ideals and it can only become more insightful as opinions and intentions become visible in this virtual world.
be very careful by just throwing everyone of a lesser intellect in a bucket of "masses that are mediocre" because that is a display of arrogance with which i would not want to identify.
- ********0
I don't think anyone here is running away from the web and how it is "evolving" (if you even believe in 'evolution') ... but that's exactly my point.
We are internet nerds.
Also, seriously, you use the internet to your advantage?
Reading that makes it seem like you actually think you deserve being grouped in with 'you'.
Having "you" as 'Person of the Year' is fucking absurd.
I guess that's mostly my point.
YouTube?
Thanks.
Thanks for causing countless threads here at NT.
MySpace?
Thanks.
I really give a flying shit about what some jackass I knew from 3rd grade is not doing with their life.
Flickr?
Thanks.
The fact you never took a class on photography almost makes it seem non-existant since you bought a digital camera.
- ********0
it has opened up the door to the mediocre.