Social Media Gets a Nod from Time Magazine

Time Magazine salutes social media and the impact it's had by making all of us the "2006 Person of the Year.” Time does a great job of incorporating social media themselves; they offer up nine blog columns, 26 RSS feeds, over 160 podcasts, provide search functionality for finding related blog posts via Sphere, and include buttons at the bottom of each article for linking to MyYahoo!, MyMSN, MyAOL, and Facebook. Unfortunately though, Time still does not allow reader comments on its site. With a little searching I was able to find a "Talkback" link with a submission form for feedback on the cover story. Time says it will post some of the comments, but not all - why be so selective? For more insight into the article, see Richard Stengel's foreword.