I am Time's Person of the Year

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But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace, but the biggest one is WrongPlanet.net.. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing (especially in The Haven and Friendship and Social Interaction Forums) and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes...

...You can learn more about how Aspies live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos and reading about the daily lives of the Aspies on WP's Forums -- those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms, strewn with items and knick-knacks of previous and current obsession alike, ranging from Routemasters to Lego Bionicles, and those sad moments in The Haven, and the happy moments in the Member's Only Discussion -- that you could from 1,000 hours of network television.

And we didn't just watch, we also worked. Like crazy. We made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded podcasts. We blogged about our candidates losing and wrote songs about getting dumped. We camcordered bombing runs and built open-source software.

America loves its solitary geniuses -- its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses -- but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others... ...We're looking at an explosion of productivity and innovation, and it's just getting started, as millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.

Who are these people? Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?

The answer is, Aspies do. And 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 (or rather, people) of the Year for 2006 are Aspies.

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/16/time.you.tm/index.html

Well, I can die happy now. This fulfills one of my lifelong ambitions.

I like that KBABZ. It really fits. I'm going to have to show that to my family.

What a load of w*k.

Colbert's going to be all over this one