I have seen this meme enough (here and here and here and here) that somehow I felt compelled to see what all the fuss is about. I discovered a few surprises, not to mention a few new tangents to chase from the lists of others.
Consider it a part of your year end reflection - a snapshot of sites/pages that you have been browsing. Clear the address bar in your browser, type in every letter of the alphabet, and list out what is the first URL on the history list (I skipped the local files and listed the first web site that showed up).
From my laptop, which is my dominant Internet device, and 99% semi-exclusively mine:
a - a.tribalfusion.com (The Whir)
b - bazet.blogs.com - Laurent Bazet
c - careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/vschools/ - Teaching and Developing Online
d - dictionary.com (My secret is out - I am a terrible speller)
e - ecademy.com -Ecademy
f - financialexpress.com
g - girlwonder.com
h - home.att.net/~scorh5/SantaContract.html - Santa's New Contract (how embarrasing)
i - icca.webportalasp.com - ICCA
j - jackvinson.com
k - kentucky.com - Lexington Herald-Leader
l - LinkedIn.com
m - marja-leena-rathje.info - Marja-Leena Rathje (I cheated here, my mail server showed up first)
n - nashvillecitypaper.com
o - onlinebusinessnetworks.com/index.php
p - pandasoftware.com
q - q4music.com
r - radio.javaranch.com/channel/frank - Frank Carver's Weblog
s - seblogging.cognitivearchitects.com - Seblogging
t - teachnology.com
u - urbanlegends.com - Top 10 Net Hoaxes of 2004
v - volunteertv.com WVLT-TV
w - weblogg-ed.com - Will Richardson's blog
x - xplanazine.com
y - yahoo.com
z - zerointelligence.net
'strange that I do not recall all of the sites on my A to Z list, but there are signs that I have been surfing a ton of sites gleaning articles for possible commentary to post here on CTDT. Interesting enough are the number of blogs that show up on the list...somehow I would not have guessed what should have been so obvious.