Congratulations. You Are Time’s Person of The Year.

Throughout the past two years, many of the authors on this blog have been talking about the revolution that has been taking place in the contemporary communications environment. Much of that revolution has centered on a concept often described as Web 2.0.

It now appears Time Magazine agrees. Because of these new Web-enabled capabilities, Time named “You” person of the year (see article).

To summarize, Web 2.0 is represented by new tools and websites that make publishing, networking, sharing and collaboration easy and ubiquitous over the Internet. It gives individuals the same power to communicate that was once reserved only for big publishers and other large media companies.

Web 2.0 will continue to transform the world. Anyone can now be a producer, publisher or a published author. As the Time article points out, this doesn’t guarantee quality content, but it does ensure digital access of your words, voice, video, photos and other digital assets to a potential audience of over one billion people on the World Wide Web.