Don't Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out, 2005

02:00 PM Dec 30, 2005

There's nothing like the end of the year for bringing out the listmaker in anyone -- best/worst of the year past; predictions/resolutions for the year to come; wish lists and thank-you-cards-owed-to lists; and of course, the airing of grievances. Scuttlebutt has it some dude is also making a list and checking it twice for aerial overflights and warrantless home invasions, but the DOJ is keeping mum on the details. Suffice to say, this city has seen a few noteworthy lists.

You know what that means: time for a meta-list. Yes, an unmatched assortment of links and third-hand ideas culled from an hour better spent working, a very microcosm of a blog itself. Call it List 2.0: a one-day feed of stuff web activist types are thinking about.

You may never lose those 15 pounds you've been meaning to drop, and you may never get over what your boss did at the office party after his sixth tumbler of spiked nog, but spare a moment to peruse these lists of lists of lists as the calendar turns to aught-six ...

• The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy's compact New Years Resolutions for Progressive Organizers. DMI also has a retrospective on the landmark public policy events of 2005.
  
• In the same vein, Politics and Technology forecasts the rise of local political blogs, who might do well to mind the lessons learned in this past November's off-year elections.
  
• J.D. Lasica's breezy Top 10 Tech Transformations of 2005 captures the broad strokes of the year gone by ...
• ... and the San Jose Mercury News takes a stab at the big themes for the year to come.
• Micropersuasion is running a somewhat geekier series on the same.
  
• Now that you've heard enough Web 2.0 spin to make your ears bleed, get ready for Web 3.0. (Guess what comes next? Is this a revolutionary new communications medium or a disposable razor?)
• If you're into the regulatory architecture that shapes online communications, you'll want to curl up with Ars Technica's preview of technology legislation for 2006.
  
• Redesigning your site? Via Robin Good, here's the year's wrap of current usability trends. For good measure, he's got his own predictions for next year's emerging technologies.
• Redesigning your e-mail newsletter? Email labs offers 10 Email Marketing "Must Dos" in 2006.
• Google's 2005 Zeitgeist gives an intriguing look at the ebbs and flows of search engine traffic around newsworthy events of the year.
  
• And while not a list, we would be remiss not to point out this week's highly topical Pew survey on the growing number of women using the Internet -- and which women in particular, and how they're using it.
  

One more thing:

I wasn't going to mention it, but, ah, say ... isn't that mistletoe ... ?

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