Cloud USA

— Cloud cover by: Stephe, Managing Editor ^@@^

{ETA #2: Well there you have it, fans. It is our opinion that TIME is just making it clear that Rain has won inclusion on their TIME 100 special list—which the editors have always chosen every year. They choose the TIME 100, we the readers choose the winner of the online poll, and it appears, from my latest research, that they just started including the #1 online poll winner in their TIME 100 list last year, in 2010.

And do keep this in mind: Their special 100 list is always chosen weeks before our poll. Writers can’t compile that amount of information for a special edition on 99 to 100 people in ONE WEEK, let’s be realistic here. And sometimes names on their list (TIME 100) and our list (online readers’ poll) overlap. People often turn up on both lists because readers and editors like the same people a lot of the time. The point is, Mr. Mousavi won the poll last year and they kept their word and put the #1 poll winner in their TIME 100.

So let’s just keep voting for good measure and have some relaxing fun doing it! — Stephe ^@@^}

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… over on TIME.com.

We’ve just noticed this morning that their TIME online readers’ poll end-of-official-voting declaration has been slightly tweaked from this, the original:

“See how your picks for the most influential people in the world rated among TIME readers. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed, with Rain having won the honor, users can continue to vote for their favorites until the list is revealed on Thursday, April 21st.”

To this:

“See how your picks for the most influential people in the world rated among TIME readers. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed (with Rain as the 2011 readers’ choice), users can continue to vote for their favorites until the final list, selected by our editors, is revealed on Thursday, April 21st.”

The first version is rather loose in that it doesn’t DETAIL how Rain won inclusion on this year’s TIME 100 List, just that he did… while the second version absolutely specifies that he won his spot on the TIME 100 List by clenching the online readers’ poll. So them tweaking that does make sense to me… The final list, selected by our editors, refers to the actual 2011 TIME 100 List, not the final online poll chart, right? That wasn’t clear in the earlier version either.

Terri, what do you think?

Since I’ve had time to look at it, I don’t really think there is anything to read into this, or any kind of hidden meaning, etc. Nope. I suppose I’m just a little skittish. I don’t want any shenanigans at this stage of the game. None. If you get my drift.

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[ETA Terri’s Take:  Yep yep.  That’s all they are doing.  I’m betting that they saw all of the confusion in their comment sections, read some of the buzz around the Internet, and decided that they needed to make the fact that Rain had won a spot on the list a little bit clearer.  He won the poll and he will appear in the Time 100 Special Issue as the reader’s choice.  (And how many times do we have to say it, anyway?  Gosh.)  That being said, I still want all of you lovely Clouds to go back to Time.com and keep voting, to see how high we can get his numbers.  Wouldn’t it be spectacular if we could land him 1,000,000 votes?  Impossible?  Is anything impossible for Clouds?  I don’t think so.  Terri :-}]

~ by Cloud USA on April 16, 2011.

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