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Gulp.(Washington Post)
The top 100 people in IT
Unfortunately some numnut decided to put this top 100 people in IT chart in a nasty slideshow, but it's still interesting in you can bear the uber-cheesy graphics.
No prizes for guessing the Google twins are top, but spot how many women are in the chart.
You almost certainly have enough fingers.
(eWeek)
The news event keyword dilemma
The Wall Street Journal has picked up on the tricky issue of news sites using Google's keyword ads to try and pull traffic to the sites, as highlighted by the Virginia Tech shootings.
The New York Times' vice president of marketing says it's just a modern version of "read it about if on the street corners", and NYTimes has been doing it since 2004.
CNN and ABC do the same and Bert Solivan, senior vice president for digital media at Fox News said it is key to attracting new visitors.
"These are people who probably tend not to be Fox users.
They are gravitating to a search engine to find a hot topic and are finding their way over to us," he says.
"It's an ideal way to tap into a huge audience that may not look for us immediately but may get pushed over to us." (Wall Street Journal)
Angel Gambino joins Bebo
We wondered where Angel Gambino would resurface after leaving MTV.
Turns out she's now the vice president for music at Bebo.
Nice gig.
The site launched a retail service last month allowing bands to sell their music on the si...
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