Now that Time magazine selected its "Man of the Year" I thought I would enter the selecting business by starting a new tradition - Internet Person Of The Year. My first selection for this "prestigious award" is Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com.

Interestingly, a few years back, Bezos was selected as the Time "Person of the Year." Today Bezos does not get very much press. However Amazon continues to roll along. Amazon adds new services and offerings every few months. The beauty of the Amazon model is that Bezos does not go outside of his "community." Amazon has a huge community of people who like to buy things on the Internet. And Bezos continues to give them more and more options along with better ways to get good buys.

Jeff Bezos is my person of the year for another reason. He is fabulously wealthy. He does not need to work. But he continues to grow and refine Amazon on a continuous basis.

In the early years of the Internet I got to meet many of the rock stars of the Internet at the Internet World shows which I once owned. I never had the privilege of meeting Jeff Bezos.

Regardless, hats off to Jeff Bezos as "Internet Person of the Year" from this small spec on the blogsophere.