"The concept of peace in Oslo is that elastic."

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg up for the Nobel Peace Prize? - latimes.com: "There are thousands of people who are eligible to nominate contenders, and it's entirely possible that Zuckerberg was nominated.

Also, keep in mind that this was the year of the Arab uprisings, a revolution that some observers say was possible only because of the way online platforms like Facebook and Twitter allowed protesters to connect.

Zuckerberg himself has downplayed Facebook's role in the Arab Spring.

"It would be extremely arrogant for any specific technology company to claim any meaningful role," he said at the e-G8 summit in Paris earlier this year. "The thing that was both necessary and sufficient was a population of people who felt very strongly that change needed to happen."

But perhaps that humility makes him all the more ... Nobel?

National Review writer Jay Nordlinger, who has a book on the history of the Nobel Peace Prize coming out this March, said it's possible that Zuckerberg could win this year.

"I wouldn't bet on him, but I wouldn't bet against him," he said. He said Zuckerberg would be an "out there" choice, even for the famously eccentric Nobel prize committee."

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