We’ve had a great first year in business (as a blog – Newscom has been around a lot longer than a year), and we’re grateful to everyone that’s visited our blog this year and made it a success. We thought, as a gift to you on this last day of 2011, we’d share with you some of the most popular blogs, and hopefully help you remember your favorites, or share some that you may have missed.
So here is our list of the most popular blogs, ordered by how many views each blog received this year.
1. Remembering Harry: Growing Up on the Red Carpet
Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, and Rupert Grint at the premiere of Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone (above) and at the premiere for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (below). Top picture: EZIO PETERSEN UPI Photo Service/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: upiphotos115676. Bottom Picture: Justin Ng/ Landmark Media/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: lmphotos037567
I won’t lie, every time I see trailer for Part I or Part II of the Deathly Hallows, I get chills when it says “the motion picture event of a generation.” Because that’s what Harry Potter has been for me, my siblings, and my friends…
2. Pictures of the Week: Dear Santa
Letter to Santa. Kelly Redinger / Design Pics/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: depphotos059257
I was a procrastinator even as a kid, so I don’t think my letter to Santa ever got mailed until Christmas Eve. Which by that point I think we can all assume the elves already have the presents wrapped, so my letter wasn’t very effective … Maybe I would have been a little more on top of things had I known about Dear Santa Letters week …
3. Political Caricatures Tell a Different Story
Color caricatures of Hillary Clinton (L) and Mitt Romney by Chris Ware. Ware KRT/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: krtfaceslive001583 (Hillary). Find it on Newscom: krtfaceslive001982 (Romney).
Sure it’s great to get those photos of politicians shaking hands and kissing babies. In a pinch, you’d probably even settle for a talking head as artwork on a story. Sometimes you’re lucky enough …
4. Pictures of the Week: Archived Celebs
Jack Nicholson Angelica Huston. Adam Scull-PHOTOlink.ne/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: phlphotos377477
Newscom’s partner PHOTOlink just uploaded hundreds of archived celebrity photos by photographer Adam Scull. The photos are awesome and show some of our favorite celebs from days gone by…
5. Supermassive Black Holes Make for Out-of-this-World Cool Photos
This illustration released by the journal Nature on shows an artist’s conception of the unusual gamma-ray transient Swift J164449.3+573451. We witness the birth of a relativistic jet from a tidally disrupted star near the event horizon of a supermassive black hole. The highly variable X-ray emission present at early times likely comes from a distinct region (blue) from the radio emission (red). AMADEO BACHAR/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: afplivefour005947
A few days ago astronomers announced that they saw, for the first time, a star in the process of being swallowed by a supermassive black hole. Aside from thinking pictures of deep space had pretty colors, I’ve never cared much about what was going on in the great “out there”…
6. Living in a Fractal Universe
A crazy intense mathmatical pattern called a fractal. Katz,Paul Index Stock Imagery/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: ndxphotos000448.
A nautilus shell. Index Stock Imagery/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: ndxphotos053342.
What do these two pictures have in common? At first glance it might seem tempting to say they are nothing alike, after all one is a naturally occurring sea shell and the other is a computer generated image…
7. Have Scientists Discovered the Fountain of Youth?
Patrick Enge/medicalpicture/Newscom. Find it at Newscom: mpphotos010366.
Telomerase, the supposed cure to aging, is the latest hot-button genetics topic. And in a world where looking, acting, and feeling younger is a multi-million dollar obsession, it’s easy to see why…
8. Just for Smiles: Fall Television Preview
Actress Jennifer Morrison and actor Robert Carlyle who plays both Rumplestiltskin and Mr. Gold, on the new series "Once Upon A Time" speak during a panel session at the ABC Summer TCA Press Tour in Beverly Hills , California August 7, 2011. FRED PROUSER/RTR/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: rtrlfour720672
This may be a bit of a stretch for the “just for smiles” series. But, as I was thinking about it, there is at least one reason I’ll be smiling once the Fall TV shows start back up again: Castle….
9. Best Pictures of the Year from Agence France Presse (AFP)
Aurora borealis, or northern lights, fill the sky on March 13, 2011 over Finnmark during the 1,000 kms Finnmarksloepet, the world’s northernmost sled dog race, in Finnmark county in northern Norway. TORE MEEK/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: afplivefour171581
At Newscom, we are privileged to work with some of the best photographers in the business. We’ve partnered with photographers and agencies around the world…
10. Crisis in the Horn of Africa
With her mother dead and her father disappeared four-year-old Somalian refugee-girl Fatima has finally reached a refugee camp in Dadaab, northeastern Kenya , 03 August 2011. Somalia and parts of Kenya have been struck by one of the worst droughts and famines in six decades, more than 350.000 refugees have found shelter in the world's biggest refugee camp. Boris Roessler/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom. Find it on Newscom: dpaphotos426304
Just today the headlines read that 29,000 toddlers – children under the age of 5 – have died in Somalia since the onset of the worst drought in 60 years….
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