Starting early next year, the venerable New York Times is going to include ebooks in its weekly literary sales ratings. Taking their place alongside paperbacks and hardcovers, ebooks will be ranked based on a system that it took the Grey Lady two years to perfect: More »
All apologies to Lady Gaga, but it turns out that your quantity of Twitter followers isn’t nearly as important as their quality. At least not for news-media feeds, according to this new ranking of the 100 most influential media Twits. More »
Google just released a list of the top 1000 websites in the world, something they’re uniquely suited to rank, since most traffic funnels through them first. Google left themselves off (they’d be #1), so Facebook and Yahoo are close together at 1 and 2. To save you time, Gizmodo US is at 540, edging out Pandora, Intel, that site you use to do currency conversion and the California government. Suck on that Costco and the web standards website. [Top1000 via Erin's Twitter]