Time lists its 50 coolest Web sites

August 15, 2006 By

Ahh, Mena Trott must really have a headache today cause Time Magazine just released its list of 50 coolest Websites.

Aaron Brethorst gave me a nice compliment when he wondered why I wasn’t on the list (I don’t belong, Aaron, but I appreciate your thought!).

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  • http://www.bostonturnergroup.com/ Matthew Turner

    OK, I didn’t beat Aaron Brethorst to the punch, but I’ll name you # 51.

  • http://www.bostonturnergroup.com Matthew Turner

    OK, I didn’t beat Aaron Brethorst to the punch, but I’ll name you # 51.

  • http://scripting.wordpress.com/ Dave Winer

    Why does that give Mena Trott a headache?

  • http://scripting.wordpress.com/ Dave Winer

    Why does that give Mena Trott a headache?

  • http://www.martinbreton.com/ brem

    I don’t even know one fifth of these websites… congratulations to cute overload for making the cut. :)

  • http://www.martinbreton.com brem

    I don’t even know one fifth of these websites… congratulations to cute overload for making the cut. :)

  • http://connectedworld.wordpress.com/ David

    How does Google Spreadsheets get into Staying Connected category? They should have had a web application category. Whatever, these kind of lists are pretty irrelevant. You want a cool website, I am using cocomment.com to track all my blog comments. Now that’s freaking cool!

  • http://connectedworld.wordpress.com/ David

    How does Google Spreadsheets get into Staying Connected category? They should have had a web application category. Whatever, these kind of lists are pretty irrelevant. You want a cool website, I am using cocomment.com to track all my blog comments. Now that’s freaking cool!

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  • Josh Wu

    How is facebook not on there?!?

  • Josh Wu

    How is facebook not on there?!?

  • Christopher Coulter

    Why does that give Mena Trott a headache?

    She doesn’t like hierarchical lists, them being undemocratic and all that. Lists makes it a lot harder on newcomers, the lion’s share going to the upper 3%, lists supposedly reinforce such a view. It’s not civil, and against all that is good and pure in this world. Only Commies that hate Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet would ever dare order things in lists. Blah blah blah. (Basic gist of her Blogher speech, as filtered down from the big-game-of-telephone bloggiods).

  • Christopher Coulter

    Why does that give Mena Trott a headache?

    She doesn’t like hierarchical lists, them being undemocratic and all that. Lists makes it a lot harder on newcomers, the lion’s share going to the upper 3%, lists supposedly reinforce such a view. It’s not civil, and against all that is good and pure in this world. Only Commies that hate Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet would ever dare order things in lists. Blah blah blah. (Basic gist of her Blogher speech, as filtered down from the big-game-of-telephone bloggiods).

  • http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/ ajcann

    Yes, cute but not practical. I seem to spend more and more of my waking hours in front of a computer (hmm, time to go off the grid for a few weeks?) and I use … none of these sites.
    What happened to gmail, worpress, technorati?

  • http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/ ajcann

    Yes, cute but not practical. I seem to spend more and more of my waking hours in front of a computer (hmm, time to go off the grid for a few weeks?) and I use … none of these sites.
    What happened to gmail, worpress, technorati?

  • http://somethingthathappened.com/ Harold J. Johnson

    I don’t usually boast about my lists, but I’ve got this thing I call SLABTO!, which stands for “Some Links Are Better Than Others”. It’s kind of hidden right now, as I don’t provide a provide link to it on my blog, but I’m sure you’ll find it if you’re looking for a decent list of (what I think are) “cool” sites (though some links are better than others)…

  • http://somethingthathappened.com Harold J. Johnson

    I don’t usually boast about my lists, but I’ve got this thing I call SLABTO!, which stands for “Some Links Are Better Than Others”. It’s kind of hidden right now, as I don’t provide a provide link to it on my blog, but I’m sure you’ll find it if you’re looking for a decent list of (what I think are) “cool” sites (though some links are better than others)…

  • http://tech.xptechsupport.com/ Bill Nadraszky

    Yuck, I hope no one blogs about this list, I don’t want to see this list gather speed. It is mostly crap. I think that Time magazine is trying to be hip by picking sites that are small and have great photography.

  • http://tech.xptechsupport.com Bill Nadraszky

    Yuck, I hope no one blogs about this list, I don’t want to see this list gather speed. It is mostly crap. I think that Time magazine is trying to be hip by picking sites that are small and have great photography.

  • http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/default.aspx paul

    No AOL sites made the cool list…..

  • http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/default.aspx paul

    No AOL sites made the cool list…..

  • http://er0cking.blogspot.com/ eROCK

    AOL and Time creating ‘Top Sites’ lists? I put this right up there next to Ted Stevens talking about the internet being ‘a series of tubes’.

  • http://er0cking.blogspot.com/ eROCK

    AOL and Time creating ‘Top Sites’ lists? I put this right up there next to Ted Stevens talking about the internet being ‘a series of tubes’.

  • http://www.brethorsting.com/ Aaron Brethorst

    Sure you do, Robert. I think you did a ton for Microsoft, specifically, and corporate blogging in general.

    Cheers,
    Aaron

  • http://www.brethorsting.com Aaron Brethorst

    Sure you do, Robert. I think you did a ton for Microsoft, specifically, and corporate blogging in general.

    Cheers,
    Aaron

  • http://bravepilgrim.blogspot.com/ jcposner

    Podtech interviews Mena

    http://www.podtech.net/?p=111

  • http://bravepilgrim.blogspot.com/ jcposner

    Podtech interviews Mena

    http://www.podtech.net/?p=111

  • mike

    It is a realistic list that a “majority” of those that spend time on the internet can identify with. That is why you don’t see Robert Scoble’s blog on the list. Most people (meaning not bloggers but the majority of people on the internet) don’t know who he is.

  • mike

    It is a realistic list that a “majority” of those that spend time on the internet can identify with. That is why you don’t see Robert Scoble’s blog on the list. Most people (meaning not bloggers but the majority of people on the internet) don’t know who he is.

  • http://www.thebloggingjournalist.com/ Munir Umrani

    Robert,

    Why would Six Apart’s Mena Trott “have a headache today cause Time Magazine just released its list of 50 coolest Websites”?

    Is it because she’s not on it? Just curious.

  • http://mickeleh.blogspot.com/ Michael Markman

    “Coolness” can not be bestowed by the uncool. What the uncool deem “cool” is inherently “uncool.”

    If you wanna know what’s cool, ya gotta ask the cool kids.

  • http://mickeleh.blogspot.com Michael Markman

    “Coolness” can not be bestowed by the uncool. What the uncool deem “cool” is inherently “uncool.”

    If you wanna know what’s cool, ya gotta ask the cool kids.

  • http://www.thebloggingjournalist.com Munir Umrani

    Robert,

    Why would Six Apart’s Mena Trott “have a headache today cause Time Magazine just released its list of 50 coolest Websites”?

    Is it because she’s not on it? Just curious.

  • http://www.ajfromdelhi.com/ AJ

    Well, You are second on my personal list. After all, my personal site needs to be on top, atleast on my list. ROFL!!!

    AJ

  • http://www.ajfromdelhi.com AJ

    Well, You are second on my personal list. After all, my personal site needs to be on top, atleast on my list. ROFL!!!

    AJ

  • Christopher Coulter

    #17, read #7…

    You ‘citizen journalists’, do read stuff? Yes? Or just 5 second glance and then comment upon?

  • Christopher Coulter

    #17, read #7…

    You ‘citizen journalists’, do read stuff? Yes? Or just 5 second glance and then comment upon?