Top 10 Lists - AppNewser http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser App News and Reviews. What to Use? How to Build? Copyright 2013 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:22:26 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 You Tube, Angry Birds, and Skype Tops Best of 2012 in Apple’s App Store The yearend  listmania is in full fever and Apple’s App Store is getting into the game with You Tube, Angry Birds, and Skype at the top of its “Best Of” lists. Many apps like Where’s my Water, Angry Birds, and Facebook made appearances within multiple categories and devices. Click below to see the full lists.

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]]> Phi Tran http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/you-tube-angry-birds-and-skype-tops-best-of-2012-in-apples-app-store_b29917#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/you-tube-angry-birds-and-skype-tops-best-of-2012-in-apples-app-store_b29917 http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/?p=29917 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:48:03 +0000 10 Notoriously Controversial Books Lat week I posted a list of 10 most misused words in the English language and the response from readers was fascinating.  Many of you hold strong opinions on how words are used – more than I expected.

I thought I’d follow up last weeks list with a new one.  Here’s a list of 10 books that have inspired vociferous arguments. The titles range from the Bible to The Catcher in the Rye and O.J. Simpson’s confession: If I did It.

  1. The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
  2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  3. The Book of Mormon
  4. The Catcher in the Rye
  5. The God Delusion
  6. If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer
  7. The Prince
  8. The Communist Manifesto
  9. The Q’uran
  10. The Bible

One detail I found interesting in this list was that The Da Vinci Code almost made its way on to the list. I don’t see how fictional tripe could be controversial, but I guess it is. But it was beat out by the book that it copied most of its ideas from: The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Unlike The Da Vinci Code, this other book makes a claim of being nonfiction.

What do you think of the books on the list?

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]]> Nate Hoffelder http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/10-notoriously-controversial-books_b16232#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/10-notoriously-controversial-books_b16232 http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/?p=16232 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:47:20 +0000 Top 10 Most Misused Words in the English Language I’ve just come across a Top 10 list site called ListVerse. A few months back Andrew Pepper posted a list of 10 misused English words. I don’t completely agree with the list but it is still worth reading.

  1. Refute
  2. Instant
  3. Enormity
  4. Less
  5. Chronic
  6. Literally
  7. Panacea
  8. Disinterested
  9. Decimate
    and
  10. Ultimate

While I’m glad that decimate made the list (it means kill 10%, not everyone), there’s at least one word that I don’t believe should be listed: literally.

There’s an ongoing discussion over whether it is correct to use the word the way it sounds or of it is okay for it to be commonly misused. For example, some would object to “steam was literally coming out if his ears”. But I would not. Most uses of the word “literally” are deliberate exaggerations, and thus they are not meant to be taken literally.

What do you think of the list? Are there any words that you feel should have been included?

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]]> Nate Hoffelder http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/top-10-most-misused-words-in-the-english-language_b16023#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/top-10-most-misused-words-in-the-english-language_b16023 http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/?p=16023 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:00:00 +0000