Tech Daily Dose: Time's 'Person Of The Year' Isn't You -- It's Him http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2007/12/times-person-of-the-year-isnt.php?rss=1 en Copyright 2010 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:49:54 GMT http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Time's 'Person Of The Year' Isn't You -- It's Him Remember how cool it was when Time magazine's "Person of the Year" was "You?" Remember the cover story that said the World Wide Web in 2006 had become a precious tool for bringing together the contributions of millions of people and making them matter? Gosh, that was nice. We really liked that.

Well, the 2007 "Person of the Year" is Vladimir Putin. The magazine said his final year as Russia's president was his most successful: "At home, he secured his political future. Abroad, he expanded his outsize -- if not always benign -- influence on global affairs."

Not a bad choice, but c'mon, plenty of fun tech-related people made news in the past 12 months. It would have been great to have claimed the cover yet again. Was Vint Cerf a contender? He's been called the "Father of the Internet" and his lengthy tenure as chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ended recently.

Runners up were former Vice President Al Gore, author J.K. Rowling, Chinese leader Hu Jintao, and U.S. military commander David Petraeus.

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