TIME's 50 Coolest Sites

I'm belatedly coming up to speed on a well-researched feature Time recently did on the 50 Coolest Sites of 2005. They've got them broken up into categories, like News & Search, Entertainment, etc. Sure enough, the chosen sites really are some of the coolest and most significant sites around. The selection of best blogs is pretty well chosen, if you're a zeitgeist-chaser and general time-waster. They also do an interesting thing and put AOL, MSN, Google, and Yahoo in a "class by themselves." (We would, too.) There really do remain four top portals -- those four -- and the also rans, Lycos, IAC, are not worth the same ink. Right so far. Then they Andrew Goodman is Principal of Traffick.com, an acclaimed "guide to portals" which foresaw the rise of trends such as paid search and semantic analysis.