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Last year, Time magazine named Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as the Person of the Year for 2010. This year, Time magazine has decided to name a collective “person” the Person of the Year for 2011. Instead of choosing one singular person for one singular event, Time has decided that this year’s Person of the Year title should be shared by a group of people … who span the globe. From the Middle East to the marbled steps of Wall Street, the Time magazine Person of the Year was EVERYWHERE this year. Click below to find out who has been named the 2011 Time magazine Person of the Year.

Just one day after the world lost visionary genius Steve Jobs, Time magazine released the coverphoto of a commemorative issue of their magazine devoted to Steve‘s memory. Click below to see Time magazine’s tribute to Steve Jobs.

Sad news for fans of Kristen Wiig‘s characters on Saturday Night Live … she reveals in a new interview with Time magazine that she has retired her SNL characters Gilly and Penelope. That’s right, the SNL characters that we love to laugh at on the late night comedy sketch show are no more … they are dunzo. I guess all she can say about the end of these characters is, Sorry!

With all of the important news going around in the past few days regarding the death of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, I feel it’s important to pass along at least some bit of new info as it gets released. These are historic days, it’s kinda hard not to comment on them. The White House has released photos that were taken in the Situation Room as the raid on the bin Laden compound was taking place on Sunday. The photos give us an intimate look at just how tense the situation was for our nation’s leaders as they carried out the plan to finally get bin Laden. New details have been released about bin Laden’s burial at sea and Time magazine is readying the release of a special issue dedicated to the death of bin Laden — one that crosses out his face in a final F-You send off.

Mark Zuckerberg, the former Harvard University student who created the world’s most popular social networking site Facebook, has been selected as Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2010. As we are all well aware, the founding of Facebook has been immortalized in one of the year’s best films, The Social Network (which was nominated for a Golden Globe award yesterday) … which, IMHO, took the booming website to a whole new level of public consciousness. In that context, it’s very easy to see how Time decided name Zuckerberg the 2010 Person of the Year:

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time’s “Person of the Year” for 2010, joining the ranks of winners that include heads of state and rock stars as the person the magazine believes most influenced events of the past year. At 26, Zuckerberg is the youngest “Person of the Year” since the first one chosen, Charles Lindbergh; he was 25 when he was named in 1927, Time said Wednesday. Zuckerberg beat out Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II by just two weeks: She was 26 when she was named in 1952. Incidentally, Queen Elizabeth II has recently joined Zuckerberg’s social networking behemoth. Time’s “Person of the Year” is the person or thing that has most influenced the culture and the news during the past year for good or for ill. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the honor last year. The 2008 winner was then-President-elect Barack Obama. The 2007 winner was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush, and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. In naming Zuckerberg, Time cited him “for changing how we all live our lives.”

It is really mind-boggling to think about how much Mark Zuckerberg has effected the way we interact in the Internet age. Millions and millions of people exchange personal information with one another every second of every day on Facebook. It is the single most popular website in the world … and it all started as a lark on one fated booze-infused night at Harvard University. It’s just … insane. After the jump, check out a few photos of Zuckerberg from this Person of the Year issue of Time and read more about how he was selected and what he thinks of the honor …

It looks like we’ve all got another big reason to be thankful this year … it’s almost the end of the 00′s decade which, according to Time magazine, has been The Decade from Hell. The new issue of Time chronicles THE worst things that have happened in the last 10 years which, in sum, add up to probably the worst decade our country has ever experienced — and to be honest, I kinda have to agree with Time magazine on this one:

As the first decade of the 21st Century draws to a close, Time has taken a look back and concluded that it is the “worst decade ever”: Bookended by 9/11 at the start and a financial wipeout at the end, the first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post-World War II era. We’re still weeks away from the end of ’09, but it’s not too early to pass judgment. Call it the Decade from Hell, or the Reckoning, or the Decade of Broken Dreams, or the Lost Decade. Call it whatever you want — just give thanks that it is nearly over.

If you so desire, you can read the online version of Time‘s coverstory HERE. The more I think about the events that occurred in the last 10 years, the more I have to agree that it really was the Decade from Hell … consider, the 00′s started with the stupid Y2K bug (which seemed to be a harbinger of doom) and immediately went into the stolen election of GWB (arguably our worst president ever presiding over, again arguably, the most EVIL administration that our nation ever suffered under) complete with “hanging chads” and all … then came 9/11 and the subsequent TWO wars (one in Afghanistan, one in Iraq). Natural disasters like the Tsunami in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 made sure to mar the decade with far too much death and destruction. The end of the decade saw our economic collapse which, in turn, threatened (and still threatens) the collapse of our nation’s automobile industry in Detroit … it just seems like it’s been on hit after another. Yes, there have been some amazing things to happen to our country in the past 10 years but, really, they will be primarily overshadowed by all of the bad stuff. As a student of History, I can assure you that when this decade is studied in hindsight, it really will look like prolly the worst decade of our nation’s history … especially if you consider how varied all of these disasters were (from technological, to political, to natural disasters, wars, terrorism, economic, etc.), well, it’s hard to argue otherwise. I have hope that the next 10 years will be much more prosperous and happy … after all, they couldn’t be any worse … right?

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This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly will pay tribute to the late Michael Jackson by devoting 28 pages of the new issue to his memory, his impact on the world of pop culture and looking back at the mag’s coverage of his long career. Additionally, author Stephen King contributes an article to the mag on his memories of Michael Jackson. Here is the cover of this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly:

From the press release: NEW YORK – This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly devotes 28 pages to Michael Jackson’s mysterious death, his fascinating life, and, most important, his music. With four separate tribute covers available online at www.ew.com/mjcover, fans can collect them all. The covers feature Jackson singing at home in 1972; on the set of the “Thriller” video in 1983; a portrait taken in 1983; and performing in New York City on Sept. 10, 2001. Inside the issue we have an essay that takes a look at his final days and his astounding legacy, his life in pictures via a timeline that goes inside the world of an elusive superstar, an in depth critical guide to his albums, the songs you need for the essential Michael Jackson playlist, the greatest videos – our critic picks the top 10, from “Rock With You” to “Thriller” to “Scream,” and an essay by Stephen King who writes about working with Jackson on the 1997 video Ghosts.

A CRITIC’S LOOK AT THE ALBUMS

From pint-size, remarkably self-possessed child star with his brothers in the Jackson 5 to burgeoning ‘70s solo star, ‘80s mega-icon, and beyond, Entertainment Weekly takes an in-depth look at Michael Jackson’s musical career and grades the below albums.

Jackson with the Jackson 5:

Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5, 1969: A-
ABC, 1970: A
Third Album, 1970: A
Maybe Tomorrow, 1971: A-
Destiny, 1978: B

Jackson’s Solo Career:

Got to Be There, 1972: B+
Ben, 1972: B
Music & Me, 1973: B
Forever, Michael, 1975: B-
Off the Wall, 1979: A-
Thriller, 1982: A
Bad, 1987: B+
Dangerous, 1991: B+
HIStory, 1995: B
Blood on the Dance Floor/History in the Mix, 1997: B-
Invincible, 2001: C+

As I mentioned above, Stephen King penned a memorial of MJ for this issue which you can read after the jump. Additionally, I mentioned over the weekend that Time published a tribute issue of their magazine in honor of Michael Jackson and the fine folks at ONTD! provide some scans from inside the mag that, IMHO, absolutely sum up MJ‘s life perfectly. Check it all out after the jump …

Time magazine has announced that they are rush producing a special commemorative issue of their magazine in honor of the late Michael Jackson. This special edition of the mag will be available on newsstands on Monday and is the first such mid-week issue of the mag since September 11, 2001. Here is our first look at the commemorative issue of Time magazine honoring Michael Jackson along with the text of the new press release:

TIME will publish a special commemorative issue on Michael Jackson to hit newsstands on Monday, June 29. This special edition of the magazine will be published in addition to TIME’s regular weekly issue and will retail for $5.99. For the special commemorative issue, TIME spoke with Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Nancy Reagan, Lenny Kravitz, Jesse Jackson, Tommy Mottola, Berry Gordy, Spike Lee, Sheryl Crow, Anjelica Huston, Clive Davis, Al Sharpton, Deepak Chopra, Kobe Bryant, Lance Bass, Oscar De La Hoya, Savion Glover, A.R. Rahman, Peter Gabriel, John Mayer and more. Stories from the commemorative issue will appear on TIME.com Sunday. Read TIME.com’s ongoing coverage of Jackson’s death at http://www.time.com/time/specials/michael-jackson/ TIME last published a special edition in between weekly issues in the days following 9/11. The issue sold more than 3.25 million copies in the United States.

A tribute like this should come as no surprise considering the massive impact that Michael Jackson has had on the world. This will be but the first of many, many tributes to the late King of Pop. This weekend, the BET Awards will pay special tribute to his memory … as I’m sure many other awards shows will in due time. Michael Jackson‘s death will resonate with people for a long time to come.

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Yesterday, while David and I were making our way thru Detroit Metro Airport heading for our departure gate, I noticed that Twitter was featured on the cover of the new issue of Time magazine. Seemingly overnight, the micro-blogging site has taken over the world and that fact is fortified by the fact that a publication like Time has taken notice. Here is the cover of the new issue of Time magazine along with a portion of the coverstory article:

The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It’s not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, “If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal.” I, too, was skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter’s co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom ’90s when he was launching Blogger.com. Back then, what people worried about was the threat that blogging posed to our attention span, with telegraphic, two-paragraph blog posts replacing long-format articles and books. With Twitter, Williams was launching a communications platform that limited you to a couple of sentences at most. What was next? Software that let you send a single punctuation mark to describe your mood? And yet as millions of devotees have discovered, Twitter turns out to have unsuspected depth. In part this is because hearing about what your friends had for breakfast is actually more interesting than it sounds. The technology writer Clive Thompson calls this “ambient awareness”: by following these quick, abbreviated status reports from members of your extended social network, you get a strangely satisfying glimpse of their daily routines. We don’t think it at all moronic to start a phone call with a friend by asking how her day is going. Twitter gives you the same information without your even having to ask. The social warmth of all those stray details shouldn’t be taken lightly. But I think there is something even more profound in what has happened to Twitter over the past two years, something that says more about the culture that has embraced and expanded Twitter at such extraordinary speed. Yes, the breakfast-status updates turned out to be more interesting than we thought. But the key development with Twitter is how we’ve jury-rigged the system to do things that its creators never dreamed of. In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it’s doing to us. It’s what we’re doing to it.

I realize that once something “cool” reaches the masses in this way it immediately becomes “uncool” and starts its decline into oblivion … but I am such a fan of Twitter that I can’t help but love reading about it, getting other people to use it and use it myself. At first, I had no interest in using the service primarily because I knew less than 5 people who were on Twitter at this time last year (and none of them were my close friends). It seemed pointless to participate when there was no one to play with. Kay Hanley (@kayhanley) of Letters to Cleo blogged the praises of Twitter late last Summer and I thought I’d give it a try. By that point, there was a thriving community of Twitter users and I began to see the appeal. While detractors like to point out the seeming “pointlessness” of the medium, I only see the positives. Yes, it may be boring to hear about what people are having for breakfast … but that’s not all you get. You hear what other folks are tweeting about at concerts you cannot attend or while watching the same TV shows (or sporting events) that you are watching. The conversation is global … and you can be a part of it. You can contribute or you can just follow along. I run into funny or fun stuff all the time that I love sharing with my friends … usually by text message. Twitter allows one to share those fun things with anyone who’s interested anywhere in the world. I’m a big Twitter fan … you can follow me at @trentvanegas if you want … but even if you don’t, I strongly suggest those of you who have yet to check out the service to give it a try and join the conversation. I promise, it’s the most fun you can have in 140 characters or less.

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Time magazine has announced their choice for Person of the Year which, this year, should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone at all. Annually the news magazine profiles a man, woman, couple, group, idea, etc. that “for better or for worse, … has done the most to influence the events of the year” and this year has selected President-elect Barack Obamaamong all of this year’s candidates as THE single person that has had the most influence. Here is the new cover of Time magazine with President-elect Obama on the cover and a portion of the issue coverstory:

It’s unlikely that you were surprised to see Obama’s face on the cover. He has come to dominate the public sphere so completely that it beggars belief to recall that half the people in America had never heard of him two years ago — that even his campaign manager, at the outset, wasn’t sure Obama had what it would take to win the election. He hit the American scene like a thunderclap, upended our politics, shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking order. Understandably, you may be thinking Obama is on the cover for these big and flashy reasons: for ushering the country across a momentous symbolic line, for infusing our democracy with a new intensity of participation, for showing the world and ourselves that our most cherished myth — the one about boundless opportunity — has plenty of juice left in it. But crisis has a way of ushering even great events into the past. As Obama has moved with unprecedented speed to build an Administration that would bolster the confidence of a shaken world, his flash and dazzle have faded into the background. In the waning days of his extraordinary year and on the cusp of his presidency, what now seems most salient about Obama is the opposite of flashy, the antithesis of rhetoric: he gets things done. He is a man about his business — a Mr. Fix It going to Washington. That’s why he’s here and why he doesn’t care about the furniture. We’ve heard fine speechmakers before and read compelling personal narratives. We’ve observed candidates who somehow latch on to just the right issue at just the right moment. Obama was all these when he started his campaign: a talented speaker who had opposed the Iraq war and lived a biography that was all things to all people. But while events undermined those pillars of his candidacy, making Iraq seem less urgent and biography less relevant, Obama has kept on rising. He possesses a rare ability to read the imperatives and possibilities of each new moment and organize himself and others to anticipate change and translate it into opportunity. The real story of Obama’s year is the steady march of seemingly impossible accomplishments: beating the Clinton machine, organizing previously marginal voters, harnessing the new technologies of democratic engagement, shattering fundraising records, turning previously red states blue — and then waking up the day after his victory to reinvent the presidential-transition process in the face of a potentially dangerous vacuum of leadership. “We always did our best up on the high wire,” says his campaign manager, David Plouffe. Obama’s competence fills him with a genuine self-confidence. “I’ve got a pretty healthy ego,” he allows. That’s clear when he offers a checklist for voters to use in judging his performance two years from now. It’s quite an agenda. Listen: “Have we helped this economy recover from what is the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression? Have we instituted financial regulations and rules of the road that assure this kind of crisis doesn’t occur again? Have we created jobs that pay well and allow families to support themselves? Have we made significant progress on reducing the cost of health care and expanding coverage? Have we begun what will probably be a decade-long project to shift America to a new energy economy? Have we begun what may be an even longer project of revitalizing our public-school systems?” There’s more: “Have we closed down Guantánamo in a responsible way, put a clear end to torture and restored a balance between the demands of our security and our Constitution? Have we rebuilt alliances around the world effectively? Have I drawn down U.S. troops out of Iraq, and have we strengthened our approach in Afghanistan — not just militarily but also diplomatically and in terms of development? And have we been able to reinvigorate international institutions to deal with transnational threats, like climate change, that we can’t solve on our own?” And: “Outside of specific policy measures, two years from now, I want the American people to be able to say, ‘Government’s not perfect; there are some things Obama does that get on my nerves. But you know what? I feel like the government’s working for me. I feel like it’s accountable. I feel like it’s transparent. I feel that I am well informed about what government actions are being taken. I feel that this is a President and an Administration that admits when it makes mistakes and adapts itself to new information.’” Can he really achieve all that? Plenty of voters will be happy if he aces only Item 1 on his list. But the essence of both Obama’s strength and his promise is that, according to a recent poll, a strong majority of Americans believe he will accomplish most of what he aims to do. For having the confidence to sketch that kind of future in this gloomy hour and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful that he will pull it off, Barack Obama is Time’s Person of the Year for 2008.

Clearly, this decision has to be Time magazine’s easiest to make, like, ever. Obama changed the landscape of politics in our nation’s history and has managed to essentially unite the country by using Hope as the glue that he believes can keep us all together while his newly elected administration tries to go about doing the work of righting the wrongs that have been set in place by the current Bush administration and set our country’s path on a new, more positive direction. It’s a tall order, one that may not be even close to 100% successful … but I suppose the same was said when we learned that an African American man was running for the highest office in the land and the most powerful position in the world. Click HERE to read Time magazine’s most excellent interview with Obama and be reminded (as if any of us need reminding so soon after the election) why he has been elected as the 44th President of the United States of America.

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