the audience is the content...

About time...

Managing Editor of TIME Magazine, Richard Stengel, writes in Now it's Your Turn about TIME's decision that 2006's person of the year is... YOU. They even have a nice shiny mirrored cover.

But what's with the reflection of Richard Stengel in the cover mirror? How ironic.

TIME's site is sooooo 1999, no trackbacks, no comments, no links!

It's a great story about how TIME is acknowledging the world has changed, but a travesty of traditional journalism meets new media. I can read about Tom in Connecticut, but I can't get to his video on YouTube, Richard tells me there are lots of comments on his own video asking for nominations, but I can't click-through to those either! He tells me of a Baghdad mother with a video phone, but without the link I don't know if this is true, or just a piece journalistic imagination.

Journalists once had the exclusive province of taking people to places they'd never been.

They now hold the exclusive province of failing to link to places people could go.