I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”

You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2011.

Today, I’d like to share a new related resource I recently found — The Huffington Post’s “Most Popular” page. There you’ll find the stories, videos and slideshows that readers of the Huffington Post, one of the most visited sites on the Web, have shared or visited the most.

I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”

You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2010.

Today, I’m posting about Show Me Trend. It lists the different “trending” topics on Twitter divided by country. There are actually several other applications that do the same thing. Show Me Trend, though, stands out because the topics are links to newspaper articles and other sources giving background on the topic.

Many people are familiar with PostRank (recently acquired by Google), which ranks blogs by an engagement level.

You can see their complete ranking of education blogs here, but I thought I’d share their top fifteen here:

1. Inside Higher Ed

2. MindShift

3. Free Technology for Teachers

4. NYT > Education

5. voiceofsandiego.org — All articles, full feed

6. Government 2.0 in Action

7. Joanne Jacobs

8. BlogHighEd.org

9. The Thinking Stick

10. Dangerously Irrelevant

11. Stephen’s Web ~ OLDaily

12. Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

13. Teach For Us :: the Teach For America blog network Posts

14. Moving at the Speed of Creativity

15. Big Education Ape

I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”

You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2010.

Today, I’d like to share a list of the 20 Most-Watched TED Talks.

I’m also adding it to The Best Teacher Resources For “TED Talks” (& Similar Presentations).

I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”

You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2010.

Today, I’m posting about Top Web, a new site that supposedly will show you the top ten most popular sites for any topic. In some quick testing, it appeared to me that their algorithm worked relatively well.

Let me know what you think.

I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”

You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2010.

Today, I’d like to share about VideoInBox, which will send you a daily email filled with the day’s top viral videos. It’s a project of Google, though you have to sign-in with a Facebook ID. You can read more about it at TechCrunch’s post, VideoInbox, Another Google/Slide Production, Brings Viral Videos To Your Inbox.

Mike Petrilli has just published a list of the most popular twitterers (tweeters?) on Twitter (see All A-Twitter about Education). He uses the ranking system called Klout to make his determination.

And, if that’s not enough education popularity news for you, you can also visit Post Rank’s analysis of the education blogs that have the highest “engagement” rankings.

For what it’s worth, I’m number six on Mike’s list and number nine on the list at Post Rank.

Obviously, you always have to wonder a bit about the data involved in these rankings, but, nevertheless, they are always useful to find new sources of information, resources and thoughtful commentary.

That’s why I publish an ongoing series of posts where I highlight various popular site lists that I think teachers might find useful.

You might also be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2010.

I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”

You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2010.

Today, I’d like to share about a site called YouTube Trends.

Here is how it describes itself:

Created by YouTube, YouTube Trends is a new destination for the latest trending videos and video trends on YouTube and a resource for daily insight into what’s happening in web video.

By making use of viewership data and aggregating the wisdom of top curators across the web, YouTube Trends surfaces popular videos in real time, and provides a blog of broader trends developing within the YouTube community.

It seems pretty useful and interesting.

As I’ve explained in earlier pieces, I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites and resources, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”

Today, I’d like to talk about National Public Radio or NPR (though I believe they may officially only be called NPR now). You can find the most viewed, most commented, and most recommended stories over the previous 24 hours at their Most Popular page.

I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”

You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2010.

Today, I’d like to share a new site called Rrrewind. It’s like a “Today In History” site for social media. Here’s how TechCrunch describes it:

[It] lets you see what was hot on Delicious, Digg, Hacker News, Reddit, Hulu, Yahoo Videos, YouTube, Dribbble, Flickr, Amazon and Yahoo Buzz for any day in 2010 and some in 2009. Like a snapshot in virality or a Popurls with a history focus, Rrrewind allows you to go back in time and see an archive of the most viewed items on the Internet.

It could be useful, especially as the years go by and if the site survives…

I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”

You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2010.

Today, I’d like to share Amazon’s Bestselling Books of 2010. Only books published for the first time in 2010 are eligible for the list. It’s interesting to glance through.

I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”

You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2010.

Today, I learned about another interesting place to find “popular” items — All Things Now lists the most shared content on Facebook.

It looks like it could be useful.

I periodically post “most popular” lists of websites (and books) that I think educators might find useful. Of course, there are a number of ways to gauge “popularity.” I just view these lists as opportunities to check-out some new sites, and find it interesting to see which ones might be particularly “popular.”

You might be interested in The Best Places To Find The Most Popular (& Useful) Resources For Educators –2010.

Today, I learned about another interesting place to find “popular” items — Bitly News. It lists the most popular links that have used the Bit.ly url address-shortening service, primarily through Twitter.

It looks pretty useful.

Thanks to TechCrunch for the tip.