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Person of the Year, You and I

Dec. 18, 2006
Categorized in: Land of Enchantment
Tagged with: albuquerque, awards, best places to live, honors, time magazine

Albuquerque, New Mexico Real Estate

Person of the Year--You and I

In 2006, Albuquerque, the city in which I reside, was voted one of the best cities in which to do business, one of the best places to live and raise a family, and now this—I have been honored as Person of the Year. So have you! 
Time magazine voted all of us web users, Person of the Year. (Albuquerque Journal, http://www.abqjournal.com). If you are reading this article, it makes me (the writer) and you (the reader) winners.  I created content that is available only on the World Wide Web, and you are using that content. That makes us citizens of the “new digital democracy” and therefore, winners.
 
If you are over the age of forty and are able to navigate the information highway, you have every reason to feel particularly honored and proud of your achievement. You are using technology that was not available to you in school during your childhood. You had to cover a lot of ground in a short time—terrain that many of your peers failed to or refused to negotiate.
The road to becoming a Time magazine “Person of the Year” required not only an academic, but a psychological leap. My friend, a hospital nurse in the mid 1980’s, chose to resign her position rather than learn to use a computer. She explained that she feared the use of computers for administrative purposes would lead to lack of face-to-face interaction and destroy interpersonal relationships.
You and I did not fear technology. We made the leap, and I will let you be the judge of whether our Web experiences have hurt or improved our relationships
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I recall the period when I thought building a web page was rocket science until with the help of a colleague, and online support, I created my very first page on a school LAN as a teaching aid for third grade students. Emboldened, I undertook a more ambitious project with the aid of Writing HTML, http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/lessons.html, just one of the myriad sites dedicated to teaching code, knowledge of which is no longer necessary for building a web page. i created a web site for sharing information with teachers. (Now available at http://www.eloisegift.com/TeachingSpanish.htm)
 My next challenge was to write blogs. The million dollar question was, “What is a blog?” The word was new, a creation of the technology age, introduced into our vocabulary like so many others by the need to describe  new concepts and ideas.
This is a blog. I am blogging about Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” award. That means I am writing and publishing my views on the topic on the World Wide Web. If I were actually speaking, I would be “blabbing.” Will anyone read my views? I have no idea. I write simply because I feel like it.
 In the past, I may have written this on a typewriter or in a notebook. I would have had a limited audience unless I could have afforded to publish it myself or convince a publisher that it was worth the expenditure for publication. With the World Wide Web, you and the rest of the world make up my audience, and publication cost is minimal. Taking advantage of this relatively new gift of technology has made us winners--at least in the eyes of Time.
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