Michael Gracie

Time Magazine punted this year, and declared their “Person of the Year” was you. Yes, you. It was supposedly the year of user generated content - unfortunately, the magazine missed the boat. They forgot that all the user generated content sucks (Spamroll included) - everyone creating that content was too busy fighting viruses to producing anything of value.

Damn it, 2006 wasn’t the year of user generated content - it was was the Year of the Zombies!

Well, maybe Time did get it right; they just didn’t know it.

UPDATE: Even Microsoft gets it. Now, let’s see if they do something about it, since last time I checked Linux and OS X installs weren’t getting hijacked too often.

A couple of weeks back I commented that some of the “old” dot-com ideas that CNET shot down might not deserve the slamming they got. The premise was that some of the dot-com failures had merit in one way or another, and not to be surprised if some of the same business models rear their not-so-ugly heads again and make someone a lot of money.

Well, the October ‘05 issue of Business 2.0 has an article entitled “Everything Old Is New Again” that suggests much the same thing.
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