SPECIAL SECTION

Power To The People (Person Of The Year)

You control the media now, and the world will never be the same. Meet the citizens of the new digital democracy

Photo Essay
  • YouTube
    2006 was the year of the YouTube generation
Videos
Photo Essay
Gallery
Milestones
Talk Back
  • What Do You Think?
    Weigh in with your own thoughts of who should have been Person of the Year

The YouTube Gurus (Person of the Year)

How a couple of regular guys built a company that changed the way we see ourselves

Enough About You (Person Of The Year)

We've made the media more democratic, but at what cost to our democracy?

It's All About Us (Person Of The Year)

Amateurs are filling the vacuum created by everything the old media chose to ignore

Web Boom 2.0 (Person Of The Year)

Dotcoms are hot again. But this bubble is different from the last one. Here's how

My So-Called Second Life (Person Of The Year)

I stepped into this virtual world and found a lot of sex--and a guide named Cristal

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

The Real War (People Who Mattered 2006 / Story of the Year)

What led to so many post-9/11 fumbles? A group of intrepid authors gives us answers

5 Things That Went From Buzz to Bust (Notebook)

The message of this page is, Beware all hype. Here are five phenomena that captivated the media for a spell, then turned out to be less than huge. Our bad

BRIEFING

The Teddy Awards: 2006 (Notebook / In the Arena)

Kofi Annan and Al Gore are just two of the public figures who deserve to be singled out this year for making their mark

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

YOUR TIME

PEOPLE

15 Who Had Their 15 Minutes of Fame

Look, it's not all their fault--some of them were just born--but here are the folks for whom there will almost surely never be another year like 2006

TO OUR READERS

LETTERS

ESSAY

Andy Was Right

The stars of Web 2.0 are descendants of Warhol. But there's not much family resemblance