survey on it-salaries 2009: | how much are it professionals worth, computerweekly.com (you need to register; and don't forget to use the opt-out spam option)

acm technews quotes another survey: what skills are needed in it?

... the No. 1 programming and development skill in demand is Java/J2EE with more than 14,000 open job positions nationally, according to Dice. | eweek.com

i guess that's the right time to quote once more brian:

Of course, Sputnik II's Laika didn't know she was doomed when she took the gig. Then again, whom among us ever does? | brian foote

studied by pedro g. lind, luciano r. da silva, josé s. andrade jr., and hans j. herrmann

We study a simple model of information propagation in social networks, where two quantities are introduced: the spread factor, which measures the average maximal fraction of neighbors of a given node that interchange information among each other, and the spreading time needed for the information to reach such fraction of nodes ...

... Further, from the computation of the spreading factor we observed that there is a non- trivial optimal number of friends which minimizes the danger of being gossipped that depends on the size of the network and on total number of acquaintances in it.| spreading gossip in social networks, 2007