Time was, only a handful of high-profile lists registered on the collective consciousness. For nearly 50 years until his death in 2008, Mr. Blackwell tattled on ten fashion offenders. For most of this girl’s life, Casey Kasem spun the weekly American Top 40 countdown. The New York Times Bestseller List has been telling bookworms what to read since 1942. And since 1985, Dave Letterman has entertained us with his Top 10 list of the archly arcane and friskily risque.
Fast forward to the digital era. These days, seems everybody and his brother (and his other brother!) has got a list. So we’ve decided to get in on the act. We’ll call it SafetyVision’s Top 10 Random Smattering List. The compilations range from season-appropriate listings to a few mobile video surveillance topics to lists capturing the online zeitgeist to clumps of pure random fun. Enjoy!
- The Nine Grossest Kinds of Candy No Adult Should Give Out on Halloween
- Five Last-Minute Halloween Costumes for Geeks and Nerds
- 20 Scariest Movies of All Time
- Top 40 Under Forty from Mass Transit (If it were Top 50 Under Fifty, Safety Vision founder Bruce Smith would be there!)
- Top 15 Stupidest Products of All Time
- Five Ways Google Wave Could Change the World
- 15 Must-Follow Comedic Actors on Twitter
- 8 Things I Learned from Delivering Pizza in High School
- Top 10 Everything of 2008 from Time
- And the final Top 10 list: What else but (are you with me here?) 10 Ways You Can Use Twitter Lists!
Did we “make the list”? You betcha! On the heels of the much ballyhooed Twitter Lists debut last week, we found ourselves on our first list: @1virtualprof/onlinesafety. If you’re not already, we encourage you to get on Twitter and follow us @SafetyVision. Just one more way for us to commune!
And recently, we were listed as one of only two “Tier 1″ providers in an independent Frost & Sullivan research report on the global mobile video surveillance market. In all humility and with sincere appreciation of our industry clients and colleagues, we think we’ve put in the time, effort, and know-how to deserve the ranking. It’s good to be at the head of the list!
Well, I think I’ve proved my point: Lists abound. Top 10? This blogpost easily could have turned into a smattering of 50! But we’ve got safety to purvey and you’ve got people to protect, so let’s be about our business.
qcait
Love the lists, Chris! Especially the pizza delivery one. Life lessons indeed.
Christine Portillo
I espouse the listmaker’s theory of “default hot.” In fact, I basked in it during high school: While I never worked in a pizza joint, I did turn heads at the DQ!