Archive for January 15th, 2007
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 [...]
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...
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, [...]
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
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...
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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