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ABC's 'People of the Year' - Bloggers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ego-inflating dept.

Sammy at Palm Addict writes "ABC News have declared Bloggers to be their 'People of the Year'. 'A blog - short for "web log" - is an online personal journal that covers topics ranging from daily life to technology to culture to the arts. Blogs have made such an impact this year that Merriam-Webster named it the word of the year. This week, their influence has become readily apparent.'"

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  1. I'm so honored! by kaedemichi255 · · Score: 5, Funny

    My first award ever! *tears*

    1. Re:I'm so honored! by ErikTheRed · · Score: 3, Funny
      That's only because the award wasn't given by CBS...

      Heard inside the smoke-filled room of CBS News Executives: "And we would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling bloggers!" (a voice from an indeterminable source adds: "And their dog, too!")
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    2. Re:I'm so honored! by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

      I won Person of the Year from ABC this year! lol How damn trendy. I'm so disapointed. Here are some photos from last month's shoot that a photographer friend did of me. And here's some photosohpped artwork that some fans sent in, of me! I took a dump today and it was a funny brownish color with some yellow in it. I use Colgate toothpaste. Did I mention, I'm Person of the Year according to ABC? What a bunch of conformists.

      Mood: Depressed
      Music: Black Tape For A Blue Girl

      [pump up my ego] - [read other people pumping up my ego]

  2. This is a much better selection than 1998 by Tezkah · · Score: 5, Funny

    "E-mail" is our person of the year!

  3. I didn't prepare a speech, but.... by And+They+Called+Her · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I'd like to thank the academy of other folks with too much time on their hands, who've made me what I am today.

    --
    'Sparrow.'
  4. A Zen question... by Eric+Giguere · · Score: 5, Funny

    If a blog is updated and nobody reads it, does it actually matter?

    1. Re:A Zen question... by PedanticSpellingTrol · · Score: 3, Funny

      You're reading this on slashdot and expect there to be an AND??

  5. o_O Not to be confused with... by Cantide · · Score: 2, Funny

    Livejournalers, apparently. "Gosh, my parents are so mean! They never let me stay up late!"

    Yeah, that kind of thing matters so much we should give it a special kind of award.

    Wait a second...

  6. Oh silly me by eomnimedia · · Score: 2, Funny

    Before ABC News cleared-up what a "blog" was, I thought it was a medical name for constipation.

    Glad they clarified that.

    PS: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

    1. Re:Oh silly me by TheoMurpse · · Score: 2, Funny

      i think most blogs can be equated with the opposite -- diarrhea of the mouth

  7. Re:Happy New Years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Happy new years to you too!

    I don't have friends to be with either :/

  8. Those who can, do. Those who can't, blog. by Animats · · Score: 2, Funny
    Visit any LiveJournal for confirmation.

    "All these people keep bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. If they can't communicate, the least they can do is SHUT UP." -- Tom Lerher

  9. Re:Like all influencial Internet movements... by stupidfoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    at least most slashdotters have jobs and have taken classes other than Art History 212 - Pre-Communist Art of the 1600th Century

  10. How true... by EvilStein · · Score: 4, Funny

    Soldiers, scientists, and other people that are providing services to humanity are probably shaking their heads at this, but meanwhile a thousand camgirl bloggers are saying "OMG Time called me "People of the Year!!" LOL OMG!!!"

  11. Re:No, no we're not. by aztektum · · Score: 2, Funny
    "The masses are asses."

    I need that as a bumper sticker.

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    :: aztek ::
    No sig for you!!
  12. Re:The Effect of a Content Management System? by Sark666 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It boggles the mind.

    Did you mean bloggles? Or wait, was that googles...

  13. A word even worse than "blog" by Stormwatch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here in Brazil, people tend to shorten "fotolog" or "photolog" as... "flog". It is fair to suppose 99.5 percent of them have no idea of what it means in english. X_X

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    Circumcision is child abuse.
  14. Re:What? Chad? by JoeShmoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about "web log"?

    Not every word needs an abbreviation.

    Although "abbreviation" could sure use one.

    -JoeShmoe
    .

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    -- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
  15. Re:Like all influencial Internet movements... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    need i remind you, video killed the radio star...?

  16. Re:An answer. by Kerstyun · · Score: 0, Funny
    In fact, since fallen trees are to be found in the vast majority of forests (where people are rather few and far between), I would contend that the transition of state from upright to fallen does not rely in the slightest on anybody seeing or hearing the event
    God is omnipresent and everywhere, he sees and hears them fall.
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    Keep the whitehouse white, vote Trump & Palin 2020.