Slog - Comments on 2006=YouTube ... and Condos, condos, condos! http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92 Admittedly, Time magazine is completely irrelevant these days. But their Man/Woman/Thing of The Year ritual—they've been doing it since 1927 (Charles Lindbergh)—has a relevant life of its own outside the dying magazine. Getting excited about Time's Person of the Year is like enjoying Super Bowl Sunday even if you don't watch a single NFL game all year (moi). 2006 has been a Year-Zero, history-altering kind of year: The GOP implosion; the on-line upheaval that's undoing traditional media; and the tragic War in Iraq. 2006 is on par with previous cultural watersheds like 1966, 1980, and 1994. And so I'm curious... Copyright 2008 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:27:03 -0800 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:11:14 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fnarf Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Google is rapidly transforming YouTube into a new corporate media outlet. John Stewart's masters are knocking individual posters off and replacing them with the "YouTube office" of the same old, same old big media companies.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497273 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497273 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:42:45 -0800 Comment by SeMe AIDS in Africa. The rest is conversation.

Seattle? Hmmm.. I would say the random shootings.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497280 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497280 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:05:43 -0800 Comment by Catman Wow, Reagan looks so gay in that cover. And I mean "gay" as in homosexual.

]]> Catman http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497281 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497281 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:06:44 -0800 Comment by Gabriel Ryan Phillipe was 1966 man of the year?

]]> Gabriel http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497285 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497285 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:12:01 -0800 Comment by factcheck has the "blogosphere" won enough elections to be thing of the year? lamont and burner didn't exactly pay off.

]]> factcheck http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497588 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:47:43 -0800 Comment by Josh Feit Factcheck,
Believe you me, after so much bravado from the DailyKos contingent re: Lamont, I have to admit that I enjoyed that they were taken down a peg in Connecticut.

My Blogosphere nod mostly covers the alternative media insurgency that's exploded in the past two years on-line and not so much the "NetRoots" stuff. But I do think the NetRoots folks were a factor in the D sweep ... if nothing else, for helping energize the Democrats. Dean as DNC chair is a child of the NetRoots ... and he certainly carried that spirit into the field this election season.

But I agree with you: The Blogosphere was a bit overrated as a giant force in the D sweep.

]]> Josh Feit http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497603 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497603 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:05:37 -0800 Comment by Aexia Webb? Tester? Both were candidates that the blogosphere backed against the party establishment in their primaries and went on to win. McCaskill was an early longshot favourite too before Missourri hit the radar.

]]> Aexia http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497611 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497611 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:18:15 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Man of the Year: S.R. Sidarth

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497613 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497613 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:24:03 -0800 Comment by Josh Feit Doug,
He wont get it, but nice call!

Aexia,
True that on Tester!

]]> Josh Feit http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497618 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497618 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:34:35 -0800 Comment by charles i prefer the new nomenclature for YouTube: GooTube

]]> charles http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497621 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497621 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:47:09 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Year of the Failure of the MSM.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497633 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497633 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:02:47 -0800 Comment by SB Mark Foley nationally. Quite an October surprise.

]]> SB http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497783 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497783 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:26:36 -0800 Comment by JENNY KENNINGS In 1936, TIME named their first Woman Of The Year. Sixteen years later that woman's niece (by marriage) was named Woman of the Year. FDR was the first US president named Man of the Year and since then every president except one has been named Man of the Year. Who are these people, Alex, and does anyone care? Hmmmm....2006 - how about the Citizens of Baghdad? Rep. Rahm Emanuel?

]]> JENNY KENNINGS http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497824 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497824 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:40:19 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Not sure about the ladies, but I doubt Ford was ever a Man of the Year.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497853 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c497853 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:35:53 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Well, the current Ford would be Failure of the Year, but I think Bush and Rove beat him to it.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c498232 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/11/post_92#c498232 News Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:11:14 -0800