Time will announce their “person of the year” later this week

time-person-year-2013Earlier today they announced the ten people who made it on to the final list:

  • Bashar Assad, President of Syria
  • Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder
  • Ted Cruz, Texas Senator
  • Miley Cyrus, Singer
  • Pope Francis, Leader of the Catholic Church
  • Barack Obama, President of the United States
  • Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran
  • Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
  • Edward Snowden, N.S.A. Leaker
  • Edith Windsor, Gay rights activist

From a “tech” perspective Bezos and Snowden are the two we’ll be watching for, though personally I’d consider Snowden to be more important this year

More details over on the Time site

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About the Author: Michele Neylon
Michele is founder and managing director of domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. He blogs mostly over on michele.blog
3 Comments
  1. James Maher December 11, 2013 at 4:32 pm - Reply

    Sad day when Assad and Cyrus even make the list!

    • Conn Ó Muíneacháin December 11, 2013 at 4:52 pm - Reply

      Agreed. Although “Person of the Year” doesn’t have to mean good person by Time’s criteria, I think there are some surprising names on there. I can imagine staff saying: “Does it have to be ten?” :)

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