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The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2006

Fiction:

• Absurdistan. By Gary Shteyngart
• The Collected Stories Of Amy Hempel. By Amy Hempel
• The Emperor’s Children. By Claire Messud
• The Lay Of The Land. By Richard Ford
• Special Topics In Calamity Physics. By Marisha Pessl

Nonfiction:

• Falling Through The Earth. By Danielle Trussoni
• The Looming Tower. By Lawrence Wright
• Mayflower. By Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma. By Michael Pollan
• The Places In Between. By Rory Stewart

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All of VH1’s “The Greatest” Lists

VH1’s Greatest series presents rankings of the best songs, artists, albums, and everything else in rock ‘n’ roll. Each countdown is revealed by a celebrity host, and through new interviews and classic footage, you’ll also learn the reasons behind the experts’ choices. View all “The Greatest” countdown lists…

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The Top News Sites of 2006

Newsknife.com rates news sites based on relevance analysis within the main Google News site. These ratings are based on a sample of 438,330 individual listings at Google News by 4504 sites for 1768 news items during 2006…

1. ABC News
2. New York Times
3. Reuters
4. Washington Post
5. Times Online, UK
6. Forbes
7. Guardian Unlimited, UK
8. Voice of America
9. Christian Science Monitor
10. International Herald Tribune
11. Bloomberg
12. CNN

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AskMen.com’s Top 49 Men

The Top 49 Men of 2006 is the product of more than one million votes cast by AskMen.com readers. View the full rankings, and profiles of each man who made the list…

1. George Clooney
2. Jay-Z
3. Richard Branson
4. Lance Armstrong
5. Tom Ford
6. Jerry Bruckheimer
7. Johnny Depp
8. David Beckham
9. Jorge Perez
10. Bill Clinton

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Brightcove’s Top 100 Buzz Videos

Brightcove is an Internet TV service used by content owners, consumers, web publishers, and advertisers. Watch their most popular 100 videos…

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Rolling Stone’s 50 Greatest Artists of All Time

The Immortals began with the creation of a panel of fifty-five top musicians, historians, industry executives and critics, selected by the editors of Rolling Stone. Voters were asked to pick, in order of preference, the twenty artists they deemed to be the most significant and influential of rock’s first fifty years, those whose work continues to have an impact today. More than 125 artists were named. The ballots were tabulated according to a weighted point system that was overseen by the international accounting firm Ernst & Young.

Rolling Stone then asked a blue-ribbon collection of singers, musicians and producers to explore and describe the importance and impact of these immortals: on the writers’ own work and personal lives; on history and society at large; and on generations to come. Van Morrison repays a lifetime of soulful debt to Ray Charles. Robbie Robertson describes Bob Dylan typing out his lyrics as they made Blonde on Blonde. Steven Van Zandt salutes the original R&B genius of the Rolling Stones and their undiminished prowess forty years later. Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers pays homage to the raw power and fiercely independent spirit of Neil Young. These are the musicians and bands who gave us everything they had, regardless of the rewards, often against insurmountable odds…

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Top 100 Digital Content Industry Companies 2006

EContent presents the 100 companies that lead the digital content industry today. Judging categories include: 1. Content Commerce, 2. Content Security, 3. Blogging, 4. Classification & Taxonomy, 5. Collaboration, 6. Content Creation, Production, & Digital Publishing, 7. Content Delivery, 8. Content Management, 9. Fee-Based Info Services, 10. Intranets & Portals, 11. Mobile Content, 12. Search Engines & Technologies, and 13. Podcasting.

View the 2006 EContent 100 List…

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New York Magazine’s Best Books of 2006

1.The Road, By Cormac McCarthy
2. The Looming Tower, By Lawrence Wright
3. The View from Castle Rock, By Alice Munro
4. State of Denial, By Bob Woodward
5. Suite Francaise, By Irene Nemirovsky
6. At Canaan’s Edge, By Taylor Branch
7. Fun Home, By Alison Bechdel
8. The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny, By Ivar Ekeland
9. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, By Marisha Pessl
10. The Emperor’s Children, By Claire Messud

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100 Best Companies to Work For 2007

Google is ranked No. 1 in Fortune’s 10th annual 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Genentech, a biotech company, is No. 2 on the list, followed by Wegmans Food Markets, which has been on the list all 10 years. Container Store and Whole Foods Market round out the top five. The 100 Best Companies to Work For list is compiled by Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz of the Great Place to Work Institute in San Francisco. More than 105,000 employees from 446 companies responded to a 57-question survey related to the annual report. See the full list…

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The 2006 Weblog Award Winners

The Weblog Awards are the world’s largest blog competition, with over 525,000 votes cast in the 2006 edition for finalists in 45 categories. Nominations ended November 24, and voting was conducted between December 7 and December 15. Final results were announced Dec. 18, 2006. View the full list here…

The top winner for 2006 was political blog DailyKos.com.

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The Most Popular Cameras Used on Flickr

Flickr’s “Camera Finder” shows the number of members who have uploaded at least one photo with a particular camera on a given day over the last year. The graph lines moving up or down indicates a change in the camera’s popularity relative to all other cameras used by Flickr members. The graphs are accurate to the extent that Flickr can automatically detect the camera used to take the photo (about 2/3rds of the time). Discover the most popular cameras used on Flickr…

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The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All-Time

The 50 Greatest Cartoons was a 1994 book by animation historian Jerry Beck that compiled a list of the 50 greatest animated cartoons of all-time as voted upon by 1,000 animation industry professionals. Details can be found on Wikipedia…

CityRag found links to online videos for many of the cartoons. The top ten are listed below. See all 50 animated cartoons…

1. What’s Opera, Doc? (1957)
2. Duck Amuck (1953)
3. The Band Concert (1935)
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
5. One Froggy Evening (1956)
6. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
7. Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
8. Porky in Wackyland (1938)
9. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
10. King Size Canary (1947)

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43 Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing The World

The 43 organizations that received the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards for 2007 have found a better way to do good: They’re using the disciplines of the corporate world to tackle daunting social problems. The Social Capitalist Awards define strong performance as a combination of both social impact and organizational effectiveness. This performance is represented by five critical components: Social Impact, Aspiration & Growth, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainability. The underlying theme is the organization’s ability to analyze tough social and organizational challenges and to craft solutions that create significant improvements over the status quo. Read the full article…

And check out the list of award winning organizations…

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s 10 Favorite Movies

From a special RED edition of London’s newspaper, The Independent. Read the full article…

1.) Bicycle Thieves - 1948
2.) Taxi Driver - 1976
3.) Lawrence of Arabia - 1962
4.) 8 1/2 - 1963
5.) The Third Man - 1949
6.) Yojimbo - 1961
7.) Manhattan - 1979
8.) Sunset Boulevard - 1950
9.) The Shining - 1980
10.) East of Eden - 1955

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