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Congratulations!You are Times person of the year!
Previous winners have included Adolf Hitler, Bill Gates and Ayatollah Khomeini．This year it is you．
Time magazine has named”You”as its”Person of the Year”in recognition of the way that ordinary internet users have revolutionized the media through blogs, file-sharing and websites such as Wikipedia, YouTube and MySpace．The magazine designed special cover——a white keyboard with a mirror for a computer screen where buyers can see their reflection——for the issue, reflecting the importance of user-generated(使用者自創(chuàng))Internet content as a driving force in the modern world．
User-generated content on websites such as You Tube has proved the latest twist(轉折)in the Internet revolution．You Tube has attracted millions of users and earned its founders ＄1.65 billion when it was bought by Google earlier this year．
Normally, the magazine describes its person of the year not necessarily as an honor, but as”the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and represented what was important about the year”．Mr．Stengel said in an interview that to select the”Person of the Year”is to look for someone who’s a symbol．
The magazine did cite(提名)26”People Who Mattered”, from North Korean leader Kim Jong II to Pope Benedict XVI(教皇本篤十六世)to the troika(三人組合)of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the past．And in 2005, the winners were Bill and Melinda Gates and rock star Bono, who were cited for their charitable(慈善的)work aimed at reducing global poverty and improving world health．It was not the first time that the magazine went away from naming an actual person for its”Person of the Year”．In 1966, the 25-and-under generation was cited; in 1975, American women were named; and in 1982, the computer was chosen．
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