Time is a massive corporation. I do not think it is surprising that they would nominate the MySpace and YouTube to be the 'winners'. These communication systems are run and controlled by those corporations so it is hardly people power when it depends on and is enabled by those massive corporations. As the Yahoo report shows those corporations are controlled through massive wealth and enabled through that - $580 Million and $1.65 Billion repectively. I hope that no-one who wants a more equal society, and you don't even have to be anti-capitalist to want that, thinks it is cool to use these sites. I do not have much experience of those sites but I believe those corporate sites will be allowing free speech as long as it does not endanger their profits. In any case all the Myspace pages I have seen have looked a mess, cluttered, thin on any content of substance and big on hype. Even with Indymedia there is no indication of how it is funded to pay for their web servers and bandwidth or who is in control. So it's probably better for people to set up their own individual websites where possible.

Actually, there is an indication of how indymedia is funded. You can look at the accounts or attend meetings. For example, here are details of the London accounts and you can look up the IMC UK accounts also.  https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcLondonBankAccount

The bit that I thought was wrong about the Time decision was the claim that citizenship media was "beating the pros at their own game".

It's not true of entertainment: some home-made clips on YouTube may be amusing, but a lot of it is cannibalised from mainstream films and television, the best examples of which remain much more interesting (see Armando Iannuci's Time Trumpet, for instance).

It's also not true of news. I realise that's a bit controversial to post on here. But - given that the numbers of bloggers and contributors to sites like this one vastly outweighs the number of mainstream media journalists, by thousands to one, it's weird that the "pros" are still getting nearly all the best news stories.

In America there have been some good exceptions, such as stories broken by the Drudge report. However, in terms of earth-shattering moments of British citizenship journalism, the only bits that I can think of from the last few years were the camera phone pics after the July 7 bombings, and the great video-camera-phone footage of that Ikea riot in Edmonton. And maybe some of the political scandals broken on the Guido Fawkes website.

But I look forward to being corrected....