I always look forward to Time Magazine‘s yearly special features where they list the best blogs, best inventions, best websites and other cool stuff. In the past, I’ve blogged about the 50 Best Inventions of 2008 and Best Blogs of 2010. Last week they released the list for The 50 Best Websites of 2011. This particular feature honors the different useful, entertaining and indispensable websites found in the World Wide Web.

Below is the complete list of the 50 Best Websites of 2011 according to their categories:

Music & Video

• 8tracks
• HBO GO
• Howcast
• My Damn Channel
• Turntable.fm

Family & Kids

• CafeMom
• Dear Photograph
• Poptropica
• Proust
• Wonderopolis

Sports

• Bleacher Report
• Grantland
• Jayski’s Silly Season Site
• Onion Sports Network
• SB Nation

News & Info

• Big Think
• GetHuman
• Instapaper
• ScienceDaily
• Techmeme

Financial & Productivity

• DuckDuckGo
• Evernote
• Join.me
• Kickstarter
• LearnVest

Shopping & Travel

• Airbnb
• Gogobot
• Hipmunk
• Polyvore
• Retrevo

Health & Fitness

• CalorieKing
• HealthGrades
• MapMyRun
• Summer Tomato
• Zen Habits

Social Media

• Google+
• Klout
• Pinterest
• Quora
• Storify

Games

• The Escapist
• Giant Bomb
• OnLive
• Touch Arcade
• Retrocade

Education

• Freerice
• Khan Academy
• Open Yale Courses
• Smarthistory
• Starfall

Click here to see the complete article.

Which of these websites are your favorites or daily reads? Which website/s can you not live without?

[image source: Time/Alexander Ho]

Each year, Time Magazine picks the best blogs from all over the Internet. Blogs that have a huge impact and influence not only in the World Wide Web but also in our community and for many of us, our personal lives. So much so that we basically can’t live without them. The blogs that get picked are then compiled into Time Magazine’s list of Best Blogs for that year. Aside from the best blogs, Time Magazine also includes a list of Essential Blogs and Overrated Blogs.

I came across this year’s list of best blogs last month, just before I left for my vacation. I wanted to share it with you guys but wasn’t able to publish it because I was so busy. Anyways, better late than never. Here is Time Magazine’s Best Blogs of 2010.

Best Blogs

• Zenhabits
• PostSecret
• Climate Progress
• HiLobrow
• Hipster Runoff
• Kottke.org
• Cake Wrecks
• The Oatmeal
• S___ My Kids Ruined
• Deadline Hollywood
• Everything Everywhere
• The Sartorialist
• Information Is Beautiful
• The Daily Kitten
• Shorpy
• Apartment Therapy
• Double X
• Strobist
• Roger Ebert’s Journal
• The Awl
• GeekDad
• Engadget
• The Washington Note
• The Consumerist
• Pitchfork

Essential Blogs

• The Daily Wh.at
• TechCrunch
• Gawker
• Politico’s Ben Smith
• Boing Boing

Overrated Blogs

• FAIL Blog
• The Big Lead
• Perez Hilton
• Mashable
• Daily Kos

To read more about this story and for a more detailed description and URLs for each blog, visit Time Magazine’s Best Blogs of 2010. You can also check out the Best Blogs of 2009 here.

Any of your favorite blogs that made it to the list? What other blog/s that you think should’ve made it to Time Magazine’s Best Blogs of 2010 list? Please share your thoughts.

Last year, I blogged about Time Magazine’s 50 Best Inventions of 2008. Because this was an annual thing for Time Magazine, I decided to do it again this year and blog about the 50 Best Inventions of 2009 which Time Magazine recently released a few days ago.

For those who are not familiar with this, Time Magazine annually gathers a list of inventions and innovations around the world and compiles it into a list of the top 50 inventions. Time Magazine then includes it in its Best & Worst lists feature under the Technology category. Below is a video preview of the this year’s best inventions.

Here’s the complete list of the 50 Best Inventions of 2009 in descending order.

50. The World’s Fastest (Steam-Powered) Car
49. The Newest Cloud
48. The 3-D Camera
47. The Fashion Robot
46. The Smart Bullet
45. The Sky King
44. Spiderweb Silk
43. The Eyeborg
42. The Supersuit
41. The High-Speed Helicopter
40. The Edible Race Car
39. The Levitating Mouse
38. The Foldable Speaker
37. Packing, Improved
36. Meat Farms
35. The Handyman’s X-Ray Vision
34. The Human-Powered Vending Machine
33. The No-Punt Offense
32. The School of One
31. The Living Wall
30. Wooden Bones
29. Dandelion Rubber
28. YouTube Funk
27. The Universal Unicycle
26. The Robo-Penguin
25. The Nissan Leaf
24. The Biotech Stradivarius
23. The Cyborg Beetle
22. The Custom Puppy
21. The Bladeless Fan
20. The Electric Microbe
19. A Watchdog for Financial Products
18. The $20 Knee
17. The Planetary Skin
16. Vertical Farming
15. The YikeBike
14. The Handheld Ultrasound
13. The Solar Shingle
12. The Personal Carbon Footprint
11. The Mercury Probe
10. The Electric Eye
9. Tweeting by Thinking
8. The AIDS Vaccine
7. The Telescope for Invisible Stars
6. Teleportation
5. Controller-Free Gaming
4. The Smart Thermostat
3. The $10 Million Lightbulb
2. The Tank-Bred Tuna

And finally, the number one invention of 2009:

1. NASA’s Ares Rockets

My favorite inventions for 2009 would have to be Project Natal (Controller-Free Gaming), the AIDS vaccine, the 3-D Camera and the YikeBike. If you were to choose from this list, which one would be your most favorite invention?

To read the complete story, check out Time Magazine’s 50 Best Inventions of 2009. This article contains photos and more information regarding each invention.

*inventions in the photo are NASA’s Ares Rocket, the Nissan Leaf, the Smart Thermostat, the 3-D Camera and the YikeBike.