Time magazine's Person of the Year: Internet users

NEW YORK (AP) — If you use the Internet, or create content for the World Wide Web, then congratulations! You have been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" — among many others.

The annual honor for 2006 went to citizens of the new digital democracy, as the magazine puts it.

The 2006 "Person of the Year" package hits newsstands Monday. The cover shows a white keyboard with a mirror for a computer screen where buyers can see their reflection.

The magazine did cite 26 "People Who Mattered," from North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to Pope Benedict to the troika of President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Time managing editor Richard Stengel says if the magazine had decided to go with an individual Person of the Year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would have been the likely choice.