Youtubers: Person of the year

So yeah, Hugo Chavez (Venezuelan president) was leading the polls for person of the year and all of the sudden Time decides to put "the people" as person of the year.

Besides the fact that Hugo Chavez is a socialist, do you guys actually feel the power of controlling your own means?

Power to the people, I'd like to think, but is it too soon or too late? Of course, America (your America, I should clarify) would love to boicott Venezuela and Bolivia, let alone Cuba, but if they're starting to lose control of traditional media, are they gonna make it? I mean, the people would stay quiet in this "Information Age"

Discuss.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2UqDeMltbk&eur

Jam it back in, in the dark.

When I mentioned "Your America" I thought it was implied that I was making a generalization.

As always, a flame is easier than actually contributing to the thread. Then again, you didn't understand my question. This isn't about your "news system" it's about the irony of how Time dissapeared Chavez from the cover but at the same time put on the cover to the people, it's called Social Networking man, read about it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'll try, Aark.

Social Newtorking is all about users. Sites like Myspace, Youtube, deviant art, are fed by the users and their opinions, ideas, etc. Internet is following a very interesting social ideology. There are lots of examples, Wikipedia, Blogger, heck, the very same bittorrent protocol.

Sites like Threadless rely on the users in something called: "Crowdsourcing", which turns every internet user into a graphic freelancer. So, in short Internet has a fair share of "communities" and now with sites like youtube or even ebay, every single internet user can make a living off of the internet, off of the "Community"

Chavez, communities, social networking, you do the math

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.