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Added to the usual reviews of the year, I’ve even seen one review of the decade, plus forecasts for next year. A pick of lists that have caught my attention follow, first the reviews:

• Guardian list of 100 best websites – interesting that Twitter gets its own sub category now
• The BBC’s portrait of the decade
• CultureLab’s best science books of 2009
• Blog post from Dave Chaffey: Most popular software tools and statistics to help online marketers in 2009 and into 2010
• ReadWriteWeb’s Best products of 2009
• Hitwise review of 2009
• New York Times buzzwords of 2009
• Top web design bookmarks of 2009

And some predictions:

• Blog post – 10 ways social media will change in 2010
• Social media today’s 5 predictions for 2010 plus a post predicting 2010 as the year of social media ROI
• The Government 2.0 Forecast For 2010: 7 Predictions
• Paul Greenberg made his predictions for CRM in 2010 in 2 parts: Part 1 and Part 2

I’m sure there will be many more – please let me know if you find any interesting ones.

Updated 22 December

There has been a common theme to much of what I’ve read in catching up since my holiday: DATA.  Lots of articles on visualisation, and what else you can do with it once its available. Plus, more news for the people who want to do exciting things with public sector information, announcements from various governments about their plans.

The White House held a live chat, which they followed up with a blog post answering questions on their Open Government Directive.

Gordon Brown made a speech to introduce the Smarter Government proposals. The whole paper can be found online – and the section relating to transparency is 1.3

Finally, a colleague in Ausaid alerted me to recent announcements from the Australian government – lots going on there.

And, did I mention lots of articles? A selection follow:

• Blog post from the IKM Emergent team: Linked Open Data Web (or, Not the Semantic Web
• Something from back in April, but cropped up again: the beauty of animated statistics
• BBC feature: Information goes out to play
• And finally – as an example of visualisation, a site that is curiously hypnotic, even if I can’t really think of its use: Visible Tweets