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When I started this "list of 2001 lists," I assumed that I would reach some conclusions; that once it's all over, I would have learned something; that I would have something to say. But 350+ links later, I've learned nothing from the cacophony. It's not the kind of cacophony that one can write about -- no, this kind is stultifying. With that, enjoy your year:
META-MEDIA
 2001 P.U.-Litzer from Norman Solomon
Top 10 CyberJournalist Stories from Jonathan Dube
2001 Media Follies from Working For Change
Notable Quotables from MediaResearch.org
Media Follies from Seattle Weekly
Top Media Stories of 2001 from I Want Media
Media Deals to Remember from Business Week
Most Censored Press Releases from McSweeney's (humor)
Ten Developments from Boston Globe
Press Releases from L.A. Weekly
The Big Kiss-off from L.A. Weekly
Documents of the Year from SmokingGun.com
Top 10 Weird Stories from ABCnews.com
From Bad To Worse from Editor & Publisher
TECH
Year-End Zeitgeist from Google
Buzz Index from Yahoo.com
Web's Most Wanted from Lycos
Vaporware from WiredNews.com
Winners and Losers of 2001 from DotComScoop
The Year in Internet Law from New York Times
Best News, Disappointments, Wish Lists from Wired News
Year in Review from CNET
The Year in Tech from SilliconValley.com (Dan Gilmour)
Year in Review from Shift
7 Singular Successes of Science from L.A. Weekly
Top Technology Stories from CNN
2001 on the Internet from BBC.com
5 Guilty Pleasure Websites from New York Magazine
Political Dot-Comedy Awards from About.com
Inventions of the Year from Time
Year of Transition from MSNBC.com
10 Best: Internet from Entertainment Weekly
5 Worst: Internet from Entertainment Weekly
The Best, the Worst, and the Ugliest from HardwareCentral.com
Editor's Wish List from CNET
Best Video Games from Amazon.com
Best Software from Amazon.com
Best of 2001 from PCworld.com
The Bottom Five from ZDnet
2001 Favorites from ZDnet AnchorDesk
Science News of the Year from Science News
Year in Review from Mac FixIt
IM Year in Review from Instant Messaging Planet
Top 10 PDA Stories from BrightHand
Tech's Best and Worst from Business Week
Top 10 Viruses from Sophos
BOOKS
Top 10 from Dennis Loy Johnson (MobyLives.com)
Best And Worst Books from Time
Best Fiction from Newsweek
25 Favorite Books from Village Voice
Best of the Year from The Guardian
Best Books of 2001 from Slate.com
10 Best Books from New York Times
Our Favorite Books from L.A. Weekly
Top 10 Books from Dallas Morning News
10 Best from Contra Costa Times
Books of the Year from Miami Herald
10 Best from Entertainment Weekly
5 Worst from Entertainment Weekly
Best Books from People
Worst Books from People
Top 10 Books from New York
Books of the Year from The Economist
Best of 2001: Poetry from L.A. Times
Best of 2001: Fiction from L.A. Times
Best of 2001: Nonfiction from L.A. Times
Best of 2001: Mysteries from L.A. Times
The Year in Books from Baltimore City Paper
The Year in Literature from Las Vegas Weekly
Philadelphia City Paper from Philadelphia City Paper
(Some Of) The Best Books from The Atlantic Monthly
100 Best Books from Amazon.com
50 Best Books from BN.com
Bad Sex Award from Literary Review via The Guardian
MUSIC
Top 50 Albums from NME
Top 20 from Spin
Top 20 from Pitchfork Media
Best of 2001 from CMJ
The Year in Music from L.A. Weekly
Best And Worst Music from Time
The Year in Recordings from Rolling Stone
10 Best from Entertainment Weekly
Best Music from People
Worst Music from People
The Year in Music from Salon.com
5 Worst from Entertainment Weekly
Top 50 Sellers from Insound.com
The Year in Music from Baltimore City Paper
The Consensus Top 10, Plus One from L.A. Times
Best Albums of 2001 from The Onion A.V. Club
Least Essential Albums of 2001 from The Onion A.V. Club
Top 10 Pop Music CDs from New York Magazine
The Year in Rock and Pop from The Guardian
Top 10 Pop Music from The Observer
Hits and Misses from BBC
Year in Music from City Pages
Top 10 from Billboard critics
Top 10 from Billboard.com critics
The Billboard 200 from Billboard
Top 10 from Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam via Billboard
Top 10 from Gavin Rossdale of Bush via Billboard
Top 10 from Suzanne Vega via Billboard
Top 10 from Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan via Billboard
Top 10 from Busta Rhymes via Billboard
Top 21 from Flack
Best Music from Art Forum (including critics Dennis Cooper and D. Strauss)
Top 20 from Washington City Paper
Top 10 from New York Times (Jon Pareles)
Top 10 from New York Times (Ann Power)
Top 10 from New York Times (Ben Ratliff)
Top 10 from New York Times (Neil Strauss)
Top 10 from L.A. Times
Top 10 Concerts and CDs from Dallas Morning News
Top 10 Soul Albums from Dallas Morning News
Top 10 Rap Albums from Dallas Morning News
Top 10 Country Albums from Dallas Morning News
Best of the Year from Rock's Back Pages
Year In Music from MSNBC.com
The Year In Music from Atlanta Creative Loafing
10 Best Albums from Tiny Mixed Tapes
Top 50 from PlayLouder
Top 10s from Other Music
Music Highlights from InfoPlease.com
Top 50 Countdown from VH1
The Year In Shakeups And Breakups from MTV
Top 25 CDs from E!
Buzzworthy from MTV
Best Avant-Garde and Jazz from SF Gate
The Best Jazz Records from Village Voice
Top 10 from L.A. Times
The Year in Jazz from The Guardian
Best Jazz from The Economist
Best Classical Music from The Economist
10 Best Live Performances from Boston Globe
Year in Jazz from Contra Costa Times
5 Best Jazz Concerts from Boston Herald
10 Best, 10 Disappointments from Contra Costa Times
Faves of 2001 from Simon Reynolds
The Music That Mattered from Michael Goldberg
2001 in Review from Michaelangelo Matos
100 Best Albums from Amazon.com
10 Essential Albums from CDnow.com
100 Best Albums from BN.com
Local Music Top 10 from Dallas Morning News
Top of the Heap from Albuquerque Alibi
Seattle Club Scene from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Best Local Music from Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Best Local Music from City Pages
FILM
Best Films from Village Voice (57 critics)
Best Films from Village Voice Critics
10 Best Films from J. Hoberman at the Village Voice
The Year in Avant-Garde Film and Video from Village Voice
Best Films from Roger Ebert at Chicago Sun-Times
35 Best Films from Harry Knowles at Aint-It-Cool-news.com
Best Movies of 2001 from Slate.com (Roger Ebert, Sarah Kerr, David Edelstein, & Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Top Ten from Salon.com (Andrew O'Hehir)
Top Ten from Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
Top Ten from Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
Awards And Nominations from MetaCritic
Hollywood Top 10 from Rolling Stone
Indie Top 10 from Rolling Stone
Top 10 from Elvis Mitchell of the New York Times
Top 10 from Stephen Holden of the New York Times
Top 10 from A. O. Scott of the New York Times
Top 10 from Dave Kehr of the New York Times
Top 10 from L.A. Times
Best And Worst Cinema from Time
Critic's Choices from Newsweek
Films of the Year from The Observer
A Year in Film from The Guardian
Top 10 from BBC
The Year's Best Films from L.A. Weekly
Year in Movies from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Year in Film from Boston Globe
Top 10 from Boston Globe
Year's Best Films from Miami Herald
10 Best, 5 Worst from Contra Costa Times
10 Best Movies from Entertainment Weekly
5 Worst Movies from Entertainment Weekly
Best Movies from People
Worst Movies from People
10 Best DVDs from Entertainment Weekly
5 Worst Video from Entertainment Weekly
Top 25 Movies from E!
Top 10 from Christian Science Monitor
The 10 Best Worst and Best Unseen Films from FilmThreat.com
Best Picture of 2001 from National Board of Review
Top 10 Movies from New York Magazine
The Year in Film from Baltimore City Paper
Movie Highlights from InfoPlease.com
The Year In Film from Atlanta Creative Loafing
Best and Worst from MovieCritic.ca
2001 Films in Review from Vermont Seven Days
Top 10 Films from Albuquerque Alibi
100 Best Videos from Amazon.com
100 Best DVDs from Amazon.com
10 Best DVDs and Videos from CDnow.com
50 Best DVD & Video from BN.com
TV
Best TV of 2001 from St. Peterburgh Times
Best Series from Chicago Sun-Times
10 Best, 5 Worst from Contra Costa Times
Top 5 from Boston Herald
Top 10 from L.A. Times
Ten Best from Boston Globe
The Best of 2001 from TV Barn
Top 10 from NewsDay
Top 10 Best and Worst from USA Today
Top 10 from SF Gate
Top 10 from SF Gate
Top 10 Best and Worst from MediaWeek
10 Best from Entertainment Weekly
10 Worst from Entertainment Weekly
Top 5 TV Moments from Entertainment Weekly
Best TV from People
Worst TV from People
Best And Worst TV from Time
Year In Television from MSNBC.com
Top 10 TV Shows from New York
Most Entertaining
2001 For Cable from Media Life Magazine
Top 10 TV Moments from Dallas Morning News
2001's TV from BBC
Television Top 10 from The Observer
Best And Worst from Zap2it.com
TV's Ten Best from Nine Planet's Mag
The Year in Television from Baltimore City Paper
PEOPLE
Person of the Year from Time
Artists of the Year from City Pages
Readers' Choice Awards from Salon.com
The Year In Celebrity Crime from Hot104
People of the Year from Rolling Stone
Most Intriguing Couples from People
Top 12 Entertainers from Entertainment Weekly
TV's Women of the Year from Entertainment Weekly
TV's Men of the Year from Entertainment Weekly
Top 20 Entertainers from E!
People of the Year from New York
Don't Be Fooled from New York Post
People of the Year: Politics from Biography
People of the Year: Arts from Biography
People of the Year: Science & Business from Biography
Best Interviews of 2001 from CDnow.com
New Yorkers of the Year from New York Magazine
ART
2001 Review from BBC
Best of 2001 from Art Forum
Best And Worst Design from Time
Best Art from Newsweek
Top 10 from L.A. Times
Art of the Year from The Observer
The Year in Art from The Guardian
Review of Year from The Telegraph
10 Good Shows from L.A. Weekly
12 Art Moments from L.A. Weekly
Top 10 Art Shows from Dallas Morning News
10 Best Museum Shows from Boston Globe
10 Best Shows from Boston Globe
Year in Art from Contra Costa Times
Art Events of the Year from Miami Herald
Year in Art from Detroit Free Press
Year in Art from Detroit News
The Year in Art from Baltimore City Paper
ARCHITECTURE
Year's Architecture Events from L.A. Times
Top 10 Architecture Events from Dallas Morning News
Architecture Notables from Miami Herald
The Year in Architecture from The Guardian
Architecture Top 10 from The Observer
Review of Year from The Telegraph
PHOTOS
Photos of the Year from Editor & Publisher
Year In Photos from MSNBC.com
Year in Photos from Newsweek
Year in Pictures from Time
Year In Pictures from AP
Year in Photos from Dallas Morning News
8 Flags from L.A. Weekly
Year in Art from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Year in Pictures from San Francisco Chronicle
Coolest Space Science Images from Space.com
SPORTS
Top 10 Stories from CNN-SI
Best And Worst in Sports from Time
Sports Odyssey from AP
Top 10 Sports Events from CNN (Frank Deford)
Year in Review from CBS SportsLine
Best of The Ramblings from ESPN
Best Sports Moments of 2001 from ESPN
Worst Moves of 2001 from ESPN
Biggest Blunders from MSNBC.com
Top Story from MSNBC.com
Absurd Stands Out from New York Times
Year of Sports in Pictures from USA Today
Top Sports Moments from InfoPlease.com
Top Sports People from InfoPlease.com
Baseball in Review from Baseball Almanac
Female Athlete of the Year from AP
Male Athlete of the Year from AP
Year in Pictures from AP
2001 Between The Lines from ESPN Mag
Top 10 Sports Stories from Dallas Morning News
Year In Review from GolfOnline
People of the Year: Sports from Biography
Sports Women of the Year from Sports Illustrted Women
THEATER
Best And Worst Theater from Time
Year in Theater from New York Post
Theatre of the Year from The Guardian
Review of Year from The Telegraph
Best Theater from USA Today
5 Winners & 5 Losers from New York Magazine
A Strange Year in the Footlights from The International-Herald Tribune
Best of 2001 from Boston Globe
Year in Theater from Contra Costa Times
Top 10 from L.A. Times
Year in Theater from Detroit Free Press
Theater Events of the Year from Miami Herald
Seattle Theatre Scene from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Top 10 Productions from Dallas Morning News
Top 10 Productions from Dallas Morning News
BUSINESS
Ten Worst Corporations of 2001 from Multinational Monitor
Corporate Highlights from Washington Post
Advertising in 2001 from New York Times
Top 10 Business Stories from CNN Money
Business This Year from The Economist
2001 Report Card from The Motley Fool
Year in Wall Street from CNET
Year in Review from FT.com
Biggest Blunders from MSNBC.com
The Year the Economy Backpedaled from MSNBC.com
Stark ROI Reality from InfoWorld
Best & Worst from Fortune
The Good, the Bad, and the Bankrupt from ABCnews.com
STYLE
10 Fierce Style Statements from L.A. Weekly
The Year in Style from New York Times
Best Parites from InStyle.com
Best Dresses from InStyle.com
Best Hair from InStyle.com
Best Trends from InStyle.com
Best Accessories from InStyle.com
Biggest Fashion Blunders from MSNBC.com
The Best of Caught from TV Guide
Most Intriguing Haridos from People
Most Intriguing Outifits from People
MISC
10 Reasons to Make a List from L.A. Weekly
Year of the Vagina from L.A. Weekly
Good Things from L.A. Weekly
Collateral Damage from L.A. Weekly
Year in Review from MSNBC.com
Year in Review from CBS.com
Year in Review from CNN.com
2001 Conventional Wisdom from Newsweek
Year in Review from MSNBC.com
Dubious Achievements Awards from About.com
Year's Best Parody from About.com
Year's Best Satire from About.com
Year In Review from Dallas Morning News
Year In Review from CBC.com
10 Greatest Intangibles from Chuck Klosterman of The Beacon Journal
Year in Trends from InfoPlease.com
2001 Disasters from InfoPlease.com
2001 Earthquakes from InfoPlease.com
2001 Volcanic Activity from InfoPlease.com
The MAD 20 from MAD Magazine
2001 in Review from AP
A Cultural Odyssey from The Guardian
The Year in South African Arts from Daily Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
E-cyclopedia's Glossary of 2001 from BBC
Buzz Words from Dallas Morning News
Pop Culture from Dallas Morning News
Video of the Year from Feedroom
Year In Ideas from The New York Times Magazine
Top 5 Entertainment Events from Entertainment Weekly
Top 10 Entertainment Stories from ABCnews.com
Most Intriguing Moments from People
Best and Worst Video Games from GameSpot.com
Biggest Political Blunders from MSNBC.com
Best And Worst Comics from Time
Best Comics from Aint-It-Cool-news.com
Best Editorial Comics from Slate.com
Year in Review from Cleveland Free Times
A Shaken Year from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Year's Worst Art Moments from Chicago Tribune
Best Toys from Amazon.com
Year in Review from Cleveland Free Times
Year in Local Arts from Detroit Free Press
What's In & What's Out from CPSC
Greenest Cars from GreenerCars.com
Best of The Bay from Weekly Planet
Best of NYC from Village Voice
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