The season of lists…

The end of the year is always the season of lists. So as a public service to both my readers I have picked out some of the best ones.

First, Frederic Filloux, from his weekly newsletter, the Monday Note, looks at the wide variety of pay experiments for news and which ones seem to be working. He also takes a perceptive tilt at the likely 2012 fortues of some big tech brands.

Second. my Edelman colleague David Armano has been telling the Harvard Business Review about six social media trends for 2012 – convergence, influence, gamification and more.

Google has released its annual Zeitgeist list of most popular search terms for 2011 giving us an untarnished view of what has been on our collective minds. I can honestly say I havn’t searched for any of the top terms in any category – but I’m not sure what that says about me. How about you? (Nice video too)

And speaking of video, here’s a good one of Forrester’s George Colony , apeaking at LeWeb 2011, on three social thunderstorms that are approaching next year. He sees a  ”post-social web” that will see social web applications evolve to deliver “more efficient, easier to use, higher value-to-time ratios”.

I’ll update if I spot more before the break…