I'm Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

And so are you. This is what happens when magazine editors run out of ideas:

NEW YORK (AP) - Congratulations! You are the Time magazine "Person of the Year."

The annual honor for 2006 went to each and every one of us, as Time cited the shift from institutions to individuals - citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine put it. The winners this year were anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web.

"If you choose an individual, you have to justify how that person affected millions of people," said Richard Stengel, who took over as Time's managing editor earlier this year. "But if you choose millions of people, you don't have to justify it to anyone."

How boring but not unexpected. In a society where we won't print the honor roll in the paper because it creates too much "pressure", or where we won't let kids keep score in games because somebody might "lose", this sort of result fits right in.