You are on the way to destruction.
You have no chance to survive make your Time… cover.
I"ve got a friend who once called me long distance (land line) to ask me to email her so she could reply.
What you say?!
Maybe they ought to retire the “Person of the Year” idea and start publishing “Concept of the Year” issues instead.
That’s a good idea, Snoooooooooooooop.
I’ll make this quick, since I’m on my way out the door.
When I said “I’m in the field”, I am a graduate student in communications with a particular focus on the so-called New Media, or what everyone else calls “Web 2.0”. I have done research (granted, unpublished research, but research nonetheless) into the phenomenon.
You’re right. Time’s treatment of the subject is pretty superficial. To me, however, it’s great that a mainstream publication is finally noticing the shift that is taking place.
I think part of the misunderstanding that happened this afternoon is that I’m actively studying this in depth, and you’re so used to it that you think it’s obvious and can’t understand what the big deal is.
Robin
Album title. We just need a band name now.
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
I want to thank all the people that helped make this happen. A shout out to Mom, Steve Jobs, neurotic attention whores, Al Gore, Sup341337hAxxorZ13, Trek vs. Wars, S71nky_K1tTy, Robert Hamburger, goatse, Greedo Fired First, and sexy dancing babies.
Couldn’t have come and done this without ya…
I suppose they’ll be booking Up With People for a promo tour . . .
Take off every Newsweek…for great justice.
It’s unfortunate. If Walter’s OP had included any of the points from (his) post #38 and the initial responses weren’t what they were, I wouldn’t be in the difficult position of having to defend Ms. Robyn. But I am, so: Robyn’s initial post perfectly responded to what was in the thread up to that point. Sorry, hayters, not her fault she didn’t “get” the irony or subtext of your posts.
But that Time article really is a phone/hi-speed internet/conspicuous consumption ad. Pffft.
A little late on the “me too,” there, CK. You’ll have to be more alert if you want a proper pile on.
I’m sorry, am I fulfilling some internet fantasy of yours?
That’s pretty damned funny, I have to admit. I got nothin’.
Why am I so quick on the post button?
My last post contained implicit and explicit agreement with the points in your points in your earlier post but you gotta cry pile on? Fuck off.
oops, guilty feelings rising!!!
You rang?
Yeah, well you also couldn’t resist the “bad old you” finger wagging, despite the fact that Robin seems to have recovered from my profanity and we’ve more or less mended our fences and moved on.
Anyway, however shallow my OP, Robyn could have asked if I’d read the article, or what my issues with it, or why I thought it was a cheap stunt. “Why don’t you read the article?” is a cloaked ad homimen attack, begsthe question, and deserves the response it got, minus the profanity.