This time of year lots of folks come out with their “Top Ten” lists, “Year in Review”, “Look Ahead” or “Look Back” lists. We’ve even done it here at the TechKnowledgyBlog. But not this year. Instead, here is a list of the better Year in Review type lists we’ve seen over the last few weeks. 2008 certainly was a noteworthy year in many ways. Lots of recurring themes: cloud computing, the migration of computers to hand-held devices, mainstreaming of open source, expectations for technology from the new administration, and impact of weak demand for commodity computing components and software. Enjoy.

The Year in Review: Technology, from The Independent.

Ten Emerging Technologies of 2008 – Most Likely to Change the Way We Live, from MIT Technology Review.

Networking Predictions for the New Year, from CNET

It Was a Good Year for Computers, from the Washington Post.

Year in Review 2008: Top tech trends, (part one) from ENN.

Year in Review 2008: Top tech trends, (part two) from ENN

The Year in Review, The Trends Ahead, from Enterprise Systems.

Just The Best Tech Lists of 2008, from PC World. PC World says: “Who doesn't love lists that neatly package the best games or coolest gadgets? That why we put together the ultimate tech-related lists of 2008.”

Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Bailing out of 2008. O.K. this has nothing to do with Technology, but Dave Barry is funny. Excerpt:

How weird a year was it?

Here's how weird:

• O.J. actually got convicted of something.
• Gasoline hit $4 a gallon -- and those were the "good" times.
• On several occasions, "Saturday Night Live" was funny.
• There were a few days there in October when you could not completely rule out the possibility that the next Treasury Secretary would be Joe the Plumber.
• Finally, and most weirdly, for the first time in history, the voters elected a president who -- despite the skeptics who said such a thing would never happen in the United States -- was neither a Bush nor a Clinton.