Sick of all those end-of-the-year lists of Best or Worst or Predictions or whatever? If not, you'll enjoy our annual List of Lists, mostly related to social media and public relations measurement. And to really get the flavor of 2012, put on Gangnam Style, the music video that debuted last summer and since has become the first in Internet history to be viewed more than a billion times. (That's PSY in the video, to the left.) Happy New Year! -- Bill Paarlberg, editor.
2012 in Summary
Business Insider: 8 Historic Events That Made Social Media Matter In 2012
PR Daily: Everything you need to know about 2012, according to social media
The New York Times: America in 2012, as Told in Charts
Pew Research Center: The Year in Data
comScore: State of the Internet in Q3 2012
The New York Times: The Lives They Lived
PRNews: The 2012 PR Yearbook (Infographic)
PR Daily: The most overused PR words of 2012
Inc.: 6 Big Tech Debuts in 2013
Best of 2012
social media today: The Best of 2012′s Social Media White Papers
TIME: Best Inventions of the Year 2012
econsultancy: 10 of the best social media campaigns from 2012
PR Daily: The 10 best & 10 worst communicators of 2012
BuzzFeed: Best of 2012
Business Insider: Our Favorite Memes of 2012
Pew Research Center: Timeline: Top News Stories of 2012
Bill Moyers' Group Think: Underreported Stories of 2012
WindMill Networking: The 20 Best Social Media Books from 2012 to Read in 2013
Danis Fraveris on Pinterest: Top Social Media Infographics in 2012
Worst of 2012
Chicago Tribune: Social media mistakes: The memorable messes on Twitter and Facebook in 2012
ragan.com: Top 10 PR blunders of 2012
Predictions for 2013:
All Things D: Top Five Social Media Predictions for 2013
Social Media Examiner: 21 Social Media Predictions for 2013 From the Pros
WebMetricsGuru: 2013 Predictions & heralding in Imminent Change
ragan.com: 6 PR and social media predictions for 2013
Inc.: 5 Trends to Ignore in 2013
Forbes: Shel Israel's 5 Tech Predictions for 2013
Wired: The Best Movies You’ll Be Seeing in 2013 (Probably)
PR Daily: Journalists and PR pros share 10 wishes for the year ahead
PR Daily: Content marketing trends to watch for 2013
Milward Brown: Digital & Media Predictions 2013
CNN Tech: Our top tech wishes for 2013
Forrester: Big Data Predictions for 2013
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(Thanks to YouTube for the Gangnam Style still.)
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many… Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders... But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” 
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