Showing posts with label Magazines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Magazines. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Most Influential People in the World & 2011 TIME 100 Poll

Who do you think made it into TIME's list of 2011 most influential people in the world? Official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed with Rain is the 2011 readers' choice. You read right. Rain, the Korean pop superstar actor has been voted the most influential person in the world by readers in an online poll conducted by TIME magazine.

Rain received the highest number of votes among the 204 candidates with 439,251 people voting for him. He has been making the TIME 100 online list for six straight years since 2006.

Jay Chou, a Taiwanese director-singer-songwriter, received 229,442 votes. Susan Boyle, a Scottish singer, received 167,711 votes.

Other list categories include Arts & Entertainment, Politics, Business, Religion, Crime, Science, Energy & Environment, Sports, Education, Tech, Health & Medicine, Travel, Internet, Lifestyle, United States, War & Terrorism, Personal Finance and World.

The lists can be found here, The 2011 TIME 100 Poll.

UPDATE on Apr 22, 2011:
TIME's official list is out. The South Korean pop star turned actor Rain, 28, took the top spot in the TIME 100 reader poll for the third year, trouncing competitors from Barack Obama to Lady Gaga. That's pretty impressive online power for a guy whose main claim to Western fame is a role in the 2009 film Ninja Assassin. View photos of Rain..

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2066367_2066369_2066482,00.html #ixzz1KCggoeXx

Let me just single out two categories that might interest you.

For bloggers, here are the top 5 blogs that readers voted.


For tweeters, check out the 140 Best Twitter Feeds..

Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed, users can continue to vote for their favorites until the final list, selected by TIME editors, is revealed on Thursday, April 21st.


Sources:
- Wikipedia
- TIME

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Time Magazine's "Top 10 Everything of 2009"


In less than three weeks, we would have come to the end of yet another year and 2010 looms before us.

Time Magazine has rounded up the year with their list of Top 10 Everything of 2009, yeah, Everything good and bad . The list is categorized into four categories.

In the News, Politics and Science category, you'll find the Top 10 Animal Stories, Green Ideas, New Species, even Oddball New Stories among others.

Under Arts & Exhibitions you'll find Top 10 Albums, Art Exhibitions, Plays and Musicals, Magazine Covers and so forth.

Then in the Business, Tech & Sports, you'll find Top 10 Sports Moments, Worst Business Deals, Gadgets, iPone Apps and Video Games.

And under the Pop Culture tab, you'll find Top 10 T-shirt Worthy Slogans, Buzzwords, Apologies, Awkward Moments, Feuds, even Top 10 Pariahs, etc.

Here's the complete list of Top 10 Everything of 2009. There are too many to link so if you're interested you can visit the site. This is very good for general knowledge.

* Albums
* Animal Stories
* Apologies
* Art Exhibitions
* Awkward Moments
* Best Biz Deals
* Breakups
* Buzzwords
* Children's Books
* Crime Stories
* Editorial Cartoons
* Facebook Stories
* Fashion Faux Paus
* Fashion Moments
* Feuds
* Fiction Books
* Fleeting Celebrities
* Gadgets

* Green Ideas
* Heroes
* iPhone Apps
* Late-Night Jokes
* Magazine Covers
* Medical Breakthroughs
* Movie Performances
* Movies
* New Species
* News Stories
* Nonfiction Books
* Oddball News Stories
* Pariahs
* Pictures of the Year
* Plays and Musicals
* Political Gaffes
* Quotes

* Religion Stories
* Scandals
* Scientific Discoveries
* Songs
* Sports Moments
* T-shirt-Worthy Slogans
* TV Ads
* TV Episodes
* TV Series
* Tweets
* Underreported Stories
* Untruths
* Video Games
* Viral Videos
* Worst Business Deals