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Best Product Rankings & Reviews

Publisher — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:24:41 +0000

US News & World Report has launched RankingsAndReviews.com, a new site that condenses reviews of major consumer products into rankings and meta-reviews.

The 50 Best Business Blogs

Publisher — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:18:26 +0000

Internet blogs are taking on big corporations and winning. As the bloggerati continue to set the agenda London’s Times Online provides a list of the 50 top blogs in the following categories: Economics, Banking & Finance, Construction & Property, Engineering, Health, Industrials, Leisure, Media & Marketing, Natural Resources, Retail, Law, Transport, Technology, Telecoms, and Utilities. View the full list…

The 40 Most Influential People in the Magazine Publishing Industry

Publisher — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:18:07 +0000

Folio examined the entire industry, as well as a few markets that intersect it, for individuals who best represent an increasingly multifaceted media landscape. People who have demonstrated tangible proof of actionable ideas. This year’s list highlights the best in the industry from consumer, b-to-b, association, and regional publications. The Folio: 40 profiles C-Level visionaries, industry influencers, people under the radar, and director-level doers. View the list…

Folio also compiled a list of people to watch…

400 Magazine Blogs

Publisher — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:46:45 +0000

Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) is the industry association for consumer magazines. Magazine.org’s blogroll features 400 blogs from member magazines. All blogs are classified under their magazine name on the left window. Once you select a magazine, a list of their current blogs will appear below next to an orange rss icon. The selected blog will display all of its current entries to the right with a preview of each selected entry in the window below it. Click on the title of the blog in the preview window on the next page to view the complete post…

(This handy tool was created using Grazr, an easy way to view information without having to follow links all over the Web.)

TIME.com’s Podcasts

Publisher — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:05:27 +0000

The redesigned Time.com features a long list of podcasts, from the Top 100 Albums of all-time, to Time’s 100 Builders & Titans. Subscribe to Time podcasts using your favorite podcasting software or download individual audio files directly to your portable media player…

The Top 200 Albums of All Time

Publisher — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:23:21 +0000

The National Association of Recording Merchandisers and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame have unveiled the official list of the 200 albums and soundtracks that comprise the Definitive 200. See the full list…

1. Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
3. Michael Jackson - Thriller
4. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
5. U2 - Joshua Tree
6. Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
7. Carole King - Tapestry
8. Bob Dylan - Highway ‘61 Revisited
9. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
10. Nirvana - Nevermind

The World’s 500 Largest Corporate Employers

Publisher — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:19:28 +0000

Giant retailer Wal-Mart Stores, with 1.8 million employees, tops the first published list of the world’s 500 largest corporate employers. Home to nearly half of the companies on the list, the United States boasts the largest employers in 13 out of 28 industries, according to the study by My Global Career, a blog-based careers site for global workers and employers seeking global-ready talent. Links to each employer’s job site are included in this free directory of companies that employ more than 45 million workers around the world. Job seekers can search the list or browse it by rank (1-500), industry, country, or company name. View the full list…

1. Wal-Mart Stores, United States - 1,800,000 employees
2. Deutsche Post, Germany - 502,545 employees
3. Siemens Group, Germany - 461,000 employees
4. McDonald’s, United States - 447,000 employees
5. Carrefour, France - 440,479 employees
6. Compass Group, United Kingdom - 410,074 employees
7. United Parcel Service, United States - 407,000 employees
8. Gazprom, Russia - 396,571 employees
9. DaimlerChrysler, Germany - 382,724 employees
10. Hitachi, Japan - 355,879 employees

Best Movie Picks From New York Times Film Critics

Publisher — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 04:33:12 +0000

Each week, the movie critics of The New York Times recommend a selection of films for the Movies section of NYTimes.com. The recommendations are based solely on that critic’s personal opinion of the film. Find out the best movies currently playing at your local theater, or out on DVD…

The 51 Best Magazines Ever

Publisher — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:34:04 +0000

The editors of Good magazine have compiled a list of the top (smartest, prettiest, coolest, funniest, most Influential, mos t necessary, most Important, most essential, etc.) magazines ever. Check out all 51…

1. Esquire. Under Harold T.P. Hayes (1961-1973)
2. The New Yorker
3. Life. (1936-1972)
4. Playboy
5. The New York Times Magazine
6. Mad. Post comic book, before the death of founder William Gaines (1955-1992)
7. Spy. Until it was sold to fun-sponge Jean Pigozzi (1986-1991)
8. Wired. Early years until Conde Nast buyout (1993-1998)
9. Andy Warhol’s Interview. Until Warhol’s death (1969-1988)
10. Colors. The first 13 issues, under Tibor Kalman (1991-1996)

America’s Top 50 Salaries

Publisher — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:50:32 +0000

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported the median salaries of America’s 50 highest-paying jobs. The following article from CareerBuilder discloses all 50 professions. As you may expect, surgeons and physicians dominate the top of list. Following is a list of the top 10 highest-paying non-medical jobs. View the full list of America’s top earning positions…

10. Chief Executives - $139,810
12. Airline Pilots, Copilots and Flight Engineers - $135,0400
15. Lawyers - $110,520
16. Air Traffic Controllers - $105,820
17. Engineering Managers - $105,470
18. Computer and Information Systems Managers - $102,360
19. Marketing Managers - $101,990
20. Astronomers - $101,360
21. Natural Sciences Managers - $99,140
22. Sales Managers - $98,510

List of Online Magazine Initiatives

Publisher — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:42:09 +0000

Magazine Publishers of America is the industry association for consumer magazines. The MPA represents more than 240 domestic publishing companies with approximately 1,400 titles, from 80 international companies. They maintain a continually updated list of magazine website digital initiatives - everything from new site features, to partnerships, and redesigns, documented for the past two years. Check out the list…

The 50 Best Blocks in New York

Publisher — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:50:04 +0000

Time Out New York’s first-ever ranking of the 50 best residential blocks in the city. View the full results…

1. South Portland Ave. between DeKalb and Lafayette Ave., Fort Greene, Brooklyn
2. Gramercy Park South between Park Ave. South and Irving Place, Gramercy Park
3. West 20th St. between Ninth and Tenth Ave., Chelsea
4. 45th Ave. between 21st and 23rd St., Long Island City, Queens
5. Convent Ave. between 143rd and 144th St., Sugar Hill
6. Montgomery Place bet. Prospect Park West & Eighth Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
7. Beck St. between Longwood Avenue and East 156th St., Longwood, Bronx
8. Coffey St. between Conover and Ferris St., Red Hook, Brooklyn
9. Charlton St. between Sixth Ave. and Varick St., Soho
10. West 78th St. between Columbus and Amsterdam Ave., Upper West Side

Fortune 500 Business Blogs

Publisher — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:46:50 +0000

Two sites are collecting links to Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs (active public blogs by company employees about the company and its products).

Timeline of History: 60,000 BCE to the Present

Publisher — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:43:42 +0000

Frank Smitha began writing the unbiased history of the world that appears on Fsmitha.com in 1987. His website contains a description of events and ideas from prehistory to the 21st century - stories that you can connect into a big picture. The timeline section linked here begins with 60,000 BCE (the Common Era is the period of measured time beginning with the year 1 on the Gregorian calendar) and continues to present day. Get ready to become the smartest person you know…

The 25 Most Stylish Films of All Time

Publisher — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:03:36 +0000

When it comes down to it, it’s the big screen where fashions are immortalized. Not the runway, not the street. From Shaft to North by Northwest, here are the movies that will never go out of fashion. View the slideshow on Men.Style.com…

Three Days of the Condor - 1975
A Clockwork Orange - 1971
Purple Noon - 1960
North by Northwest - 1959
Trainspotting - 1996
Get Carter - 1970
Diner - 1982
Breathless - 1959
Stranger Than Paradise - 1984
Shaft - 1971
Badlands - 1973
Quadrophenia - 1979
Rushmore - 1998
A Hard Day’s Night - 1964
Shampoo - 1975
8 1/2 - 1963
Bullitt - 1968
American Gigolo - 1980
Reservoir Dogs - 1992
How to Steal a Million - 1966
Blowup - 1966
In the Mood for Love - 2000
The Godfather Part II - 1974
The Harder They Come - 1973
Ocean’s 11 - 1960

Elvis Costello’s 500 Albums Essential to a Happy Life

Publisher — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:59:04 +0000

“Here are 500 albums that can only improve your life. Many will be quite familiar, others less so. It was impossible to choose just one title by Miles Davis, the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Dylan, Mingus, etc. Sometimes an album contains just one indispensable song. Shot of Love may not be your favorite Bob Dylan record, but it might contain his best song: Every Grain of Sand. You will see that some very famous names are missing completely. There is nothing at all by Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Michael Jackson, or Sting. You may love them. They just don’t do it for me. There’s not too muc h disco or dance, except the mighty Chic. If you want something from Los Angeles in the early 70s, I suggest you purchase the first Jackson Browne record; it will save you buying all those Eagles albums. There is nothing to speak of from the 80s, the decade that music forgot, except for Robert Wyatt. Not many Divas, except for Callas and Aretha. There are probably songs being composed right now that will eclipse every entry on this list in somebody’s heart or mind. It is my experience that music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn’t charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.” Check out the list….

Internet Retailer’s Top 50 Retail Sites 2007

Publisher — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:09:17 +0000

Online video, live webcasts, social networking, customer reviews–these are the kinds of things that make this year’s Top 50 online etailers shine. Last year the best e-retailers were fine-tuning and adding some features. This year they’re bounding forward in ways that show how some retailers are more imaginative and more focused on bringing customers back for more…

View the winning sites within the following categories:

TIME’s Top Ten Lists 2006

Publisher — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:37:34 +0000

TIME’s critics present the greatest movies, TV, books, fashion, video games, theater, websites, music and more of 2006…

Top 10 Best Internet Acquisitions of All Time

Publisher — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:11:38 +0000

From HipMojo.com, the ten “best” Internet acquisitions of all time. Read the full article…

1. News Corporation acquires MySpace-parent Intermix for $580M in May 2005
2. New York Times acquires About.com for $410M in February, 2005
3. Google acquires Sprinks in October 2003
4. Yahoo! acquires Overture for $1.63B in July, 2003
5. Yahoo! acquires Inktomi for $235M in December, 2002
6. AOL Time Warner acquires Advertising.com for $435M in June 2004
7. eBay acquires Paypal for $1.5B in 2002
8. Ask Jeeves acquires Interactive Search Holdings for $343M in March 2004
9. Microsoft acquires Hotmail for $400M in 1998
10. aQuantive acquires Razorfish for $160M in June 2004

Squidoo’s Top 100

Publisher — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:31:35 +0000

Squidoo is a website designed to make it easy for anyone to set up a single page on a topic he or she knows or cares a lot about. Their goal is to bring the power of recommendation to search. Squidoo is a network of user-generated lenses –single pages that highlights one person’s point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Lenses can be about anything, such as ideas, people or places, hobbies and sports, pets or products, philosophy, and politics. A lensmaster uses the tools available online to provide links, feeds, abstracts, and lists to users who are trying to make sense of a topic. For example, a single lens could point to Flickr photos, Google maps, blogs, eBay auctions, YouTube videos, and other links. Check out Squidoo’s list of top 100 recommendations…

The World’s Best TV Commericals of 2006

Publisher — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:50:22 +0000

AdForum is a leading online resource for information on advertising agencies and advertising creative work from around the world. Their database contains a large collection of the world’s best TV, print, internet, outdoor and radio ads. View video of the top TV commercials of 2006, including clips from Canada, Japan, United States, Australia, Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Israel, China, Brazil, Argentina, and Norway…

10 Hot Jobs for 2007

Publisher — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:47:12 +0000

Fast Company spoke with trend experts to compile a list of the top 10 professions that will be in high demand in 2007…

1. Art Directors
2. Buyers and Purchasing Agents
3. Experience Retail Designers
4. Medical Researchers
5. News Analysts, Reporters, and Bloggers
6. Security Systems Engineers
7. Talent Agents
8. Urban Planners
9. Viral Marketers and Media Promoters
10. Web Designers

The Most Popular Web Content Widgets

Publisher — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:11:40 +0000

A web widget is a small piece of interactive content (like a scorebox, music player, or game) that can be dynamically embedded into a web page. Widgets allow for a new level of expression and creativity as web publishers use them to create value and interest in their blogs, social networks, and web sites. Here are the most popular web widgets in the Widgetbox directory…

The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2006

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:40:37 +0000

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

All of VH1’s “The Greatest” Lists

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:11:38 +0000

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

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:44:34 +0000

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

AskMen.com’s Top 49 Men

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:44:06 +0000

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

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:11:59 +0000

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

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:00:35 +0000

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…

New York Magazine’s Best Books of 2006

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:39:52 +0000

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

100 Best Companies to Work For 2007

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 04:01:37 +0000

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…

The 2006 Weblog Award Winners

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:51:37 +0000

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.

The Most Popular Cameras Used on Flickr

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:51:18 +0000

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…

The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All-Time

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:39:05 +0000

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)

43 Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing The World

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:15:27 +0000

The 4 3 organi zations that received the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards for 2007 have found a b etter 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…

Leonardo DiCaprio’s 10 Favorite Movies

Publisher — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:36:08 +0000

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

Top Web 2.0 Winners

Publisher — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:26:00 +0000

Following is a list of Web 2.0 winners, according to Wired, Wired’s Monkey Bites blog, and Wisdump.com.

Expedia.com’s Top Travel Destinations

Publisher — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:26:47 +0000

101 Classic Christmas Videos

Publisher — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:55:25 +0000

FanPop.com has collected 101 classic holiday specials, and Christmas videos. View the top 5 in the “hall of fame” below, then check out the full list…

1. It’s a Wonderful Life (click to watch)
2. A Charlie Brown Christmas (click to watch)
3. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (click to watch)
4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (click to watch)
5. Frosty the Snowman (click to watch)

Business Schools with the Best Career Prospects

Publisher — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:17:42 +0000

Students who pursue an MBA enjoy a major return on their investment. To determine the schools on this list, The Princeton Reivew looked at institutional data concerning job placement and average starting salary of students after graduation. According to The Princeton Review’s annual survey of 18,000 business school students at the nation’s Best 282 Business Schools, these ten schools offer their students the best career prospects…

1. Stanford University (Stanford, California)
2. University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
3. University of California–Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
4. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
5. Columbia University (New York, New York)
6. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
7. New York University (New York, New York)
8. Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
9. University of Californi–Los Angeles (Los Angeles, California)
10. Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)

The Most Influential Figures in American History

Publisher — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:29:14 +0000

The Atlantic has published a list of the top 100 influential figures in American history. It was compiled by asking a panel of ten historians to each produce a list, and the lists were then merged. Check out the full list…

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. George Washington
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
5. Alexander Hamilton
6. Benjamin Franklin
7. John Marshall
8. Martin Luther King Jr.
9. Thomas Edison
10. Woodrow Wilson

The New York Times Top 100 Books of 2006

Publisher — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:17:43 +0000

100 Notable Books of the Year from The New York Times Book Review. The Book Review has selected this list from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of Dec. 4, 2005. View the top fiction, poetry and nonfiction books of 2006…

The Top 100 Cover Songs

Publisher — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:32:55 +0000

Countdown the Top 100 Cover Songs, according to retroCRUSH.com, with accompanying video clips on YouTube…

1) “My Way” by Sid Vicious
Original Artist: Frank Sinatra

2) “Proud Mary” by Ike and Tina Turner
Original Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival

3) “Hurt” by Johnny Cash
Original Artist: Nine Inch Nails

4) “Satisfaction” by Devo
Original Artist: The Rolling Stones

5) “Respect” by Aretha Franklin
Original Artist: Otis Redding

6) “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”
by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Original Artist: Marvin Gaye/Gladys Knight

7) “Just A Gigolo” by David Lee Roth
Original Artist: Louie Prima

8) “A Little Help From My Friends” by Joe Cocker
Original Artist: The Beatles

9) “All Along The Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix
Original Artist: Bob Dylan

10) “A Natural Woman” by Carole King
Original Artist: Aretha Franklin

Oprah’s Favorite Things

Publisher — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:22:27 +0000

The ultimate gift list. Categories include: Beauty and Body Care, Books and Music, Food Favorites, Children, Home, Pets, High Tech Discoveries, and What to Wear. Check out Oprah’s Favorite Things…

Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of 2006

Publisher — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 06:18:04 +0000

Each year, Wine Spectator magazine editors survey the wines reviewed during the calendar year and select the most exciting wines for the Top 100. The wines chosen are based on four criteria: quality, value, availability, and “excitement.”

In 2006, Wine Spectator reviewed more than 13,500 wines from around the world in blind tastings. More than 2,700 of them earned outstanding ratings (90 points or higher on the 100-point scale), qualifying them for the initial pool of candidates. Thirteen countries are represented in the 2006 list, making this the most diverse group in the history of the Top 100, which debuted in 1988. The average score of the group is 93 points, while the average price is $49. View the top 100 wines…

TIME’s Top 100 Albums of All Time

Publisher — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:28:00 +0000

A list of the 100 greatest and most influential albums was recently compiled by Time magazine music critics. The Beatles have five albums on the list, more than any other group. Bob Dylan leads all male artists with three and Aretha Franklin leads the women with two. Elvis Presley is in there. So’s Eminem, Radiohead, the Stones, Kanye West, Michael Jackson, Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen, even the Plastic Ono Band. But nothing by Pink Floyd. Not even “Dark Side of the Moon,” which is one of the best-selling albums of all time. Other prominent no-shows — The Doors, and Elvis Costello. View the complete list…

MSN’s Top 100 Music Videos

Publisher — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:31:42 +0000

View the top 100 music videos popular with MSN.com visitors. Requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft Media Player 10, and Macromedia Flash 6…

The Daily Reel’s Top 10 New Videos

Publisher — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:47:11 +0000

With all of the buzz surrounding web video, it’s surprisingly difficult to find a good movie online. YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo’s “The 9” - can show you what’s popular through their respective ranking systems. But how can you-the-viewer ferret out what is worth watching?

The Daily Reel showcases the best in online video. They sift through millions of clips, find quality content, and show you what you need to watch. TDR assembled a team of film and TV critics, pop culture commentators and online mavens from traditional and online media to find the best broadband videos. Their contributors come from The New York Times, Variety, The Village Voice, Filmmaker Magazine, The Austin Chronicle, and more. Check out The Daily Reel’s top 10 new videos…

Martha Stewart’s 20 Essential Kitchen Tools

Publisher — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:05:25 +0000

The Martha Stewart Show shared a list of 20 essential tools in her kitchen. From baking to cooking to preparing, each tool will make you more efficient in the kitchen. View all 20 tools…

Watch a video clip of Martha using each tool…

The Best Magazine Covers of the Year

Publisher — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:07:15 +0000

The best magazine covers of the year were unveiled today at the American Magazine Conference, by Cynthia Leive, President of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and Editor-in-Chief of Glamour, and Marlene Kahan, ASME’s Executive Director. The conference, a premier industry event attended by executive-level magazine publishers and editors, as well as the press, is hosted by Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) and ASME. Eligible cover dates of entries ranged from August 1, 2005, to July 31, 2006. View the full list of winning magazine covers…

Cover of the Year - “Flood in the Oval Office,” The New Yorker
Best Celebrity Covers (tie) - Julianne Moore in Harper’s Bazaar; Busta Rhymes in VIBE
Best News Cover - “Watch Your Back Mountain,” The New Yorker
Best Concept Cover - “The End of Cowboy Diplomacy,” TIME
Best Fashion Cover - 2005 Style Issue, Departures
Best Service Cover - 2006 Fitness Issue, Time Out New York
Best Cover Line - “Rocket Man,” The Economist