The Side Note - Time Magazine POTY 2010

On a side note, today I heard that Time Magazine announced their Person of the Year 2010. Mark Zuckerberg, the creator and CEO of Facebook, was named the TPOTY 2010 for "connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them..." etc, etc.

Ok - I'll buy that. Facebook has changed the way the world operates. It could be out-done by the next greatest thing (a la what FB did to Myspace), but for the year 2010, yes, I'll buy that.

What I cannot, however, buy is that one of the runners up was Julian Assange, the political hacker that spawned wikileaks. What is