We hacked through dozens of year-end lists--and, yes, checked them twice--to bring you our curated best and worst of 2011. Here's the mother of all roundups that you will find online, offline, and everywhere else. Each line is taken from those other year-end lists.
‘Tis the season of year-end lists, the time of the season when you see the ubiquitous "Best of 2011" rankings for nearly everything--books, movies, things to do, songs, cars, iPad apps, YouTube videos, fashion moments, Tweets and more. If you have access to the Internet and a bag full of opinions you can make your Top 5, 10, 100 and beyond, of anything you like and be guaranteed someone will read it. They can range from the entirely opinionated--“ten albums that I liked and no one else did this year”--to the somewhat informative--“ten hip restaurants that opened up in this area of town that you might not venture to that often”--to the outrageously unnecessary--“top ten things I wore on my left foot this year.”
Some of them are hysterically funny: The 20 Unhappiest People You Meet In The Comments Sections Of Year-End Lists, Top Jackasses of 2011 (“Too Many Make the List”), 10 Fictional Holidays from TV That You Can Actually Celebrate, Top 10 Comedic News Stories, and Top 10 Celebrity Pix of 2011. Others offer a comprehensive look at the year. In 54 wide-ranging lists, Time surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad, of the past 12 months. The New Yorker contributed Best/Worst scandals of 2011 and E! Online promoted Best of 2011 Top 10 movies, reality shows, stylish stars, royal moments, heroes, and TV dramas.
Google, Facebook and Twitter's year-end hot topic lists offer a reliably depressing look into the Internet's soul. Twitter topped the Social Media Buzz list followed by LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook, and spawned whole categories--The Top 10 Best Twitpics of 2011, The 90 Best Twitter Accounts of 2011, Top Hashtags, and Shalom Life's Je...
[Source: Fast Company]
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