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My pick of the weeks' top 5 items of interest:

1. Good news: the number of people working in IT jobs in the US has hit a record 4 million, and the unemployment rate is a meager 2.3%. Advice to incoming freshmen: Give computer science a try.


2. Chill. It's just a phone.


3. Neil McAllister asks an intriguing question: "Is the Web still the Web?"


4. Digg has rolled out a new recommendation system based on the wisdom of crowds.


5. Some cool new stuff: Protocol Buffers from Google and the BOSS API from Yahoo (see my post from yesterday).