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		<title>New Site For AOL &amp; Job Listings On TechMeme?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This afternoon it was a little surreal to see a <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080418/h1430">job posting appear</a> among the headlines at TechMeme. Just last week, BusinessWire seemed pretty jazzed about getting press releases to show up there. But really? A job posting?</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This afternoon it was a little surreal to see a <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/080418/h1430">job posting appear</a> among the headlines at TechMeme. Just last week, BusinessWire seemed pretty jazzed about getting press releases to show up there. But really? A job posting?</p>
<p>The job posted at <a href="http://www.journalismjobs.com/Job_Listing.cfm?JobID=909382">JournalismJobs.com</a> was for an editor&#8217;s position at a to-be-created women&#8217;s lifestyle website and had a nice, jazzy job description about being able to &quot;explain why Renee Zellweger is endearing yet freaky, and Amy Sedaris is freaky yet brilliant.&quot;</p>
<p>The company isn&#8217;t mentioned.</p>
<p>I looked at it, a lot, trying to find a mention of the company. At the bottom, applicants are instructed to respond to a person whose email ends in @aol.com, an address only a few million people could have.</p>
<p>So, not only do I still not know which company is hiring for this position, I still don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s showing up on TechMeme. Surely, we&#8217;re not going to see every online job posting there, are we?</p>
<p>A refresh later and the link disappears&mdash;so I&#8217;m guessing the answer to the last question is no&mdash;and is replaced with a <a href="http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&amp;art_aid=80916">Media Post story</a> saying AOL was planning to launch a site targeted toward young women. While AOL declined to comment, there was the evidence of it at the job posting at JournalismJobs.com.</p>
<p>So I looked again. Nope. No mention of a company. But <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/4/aol_ramping_up_web_site_for_young_women">Silicon Alley Insider</a> was pretty convinced according to its posting.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-aol-quietly-creates-female-focused-lifestyle-site-editor-must-get-renee/">PaidContent</a> made me feel better by noting the company wasn&#8217;t mentioned, and confirmed with Time Warner that the company was planning to launch a complement to the men&#8217;s site <a href="http://www.asylum.com/">Asylum</a>.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s no mention of confirmation that the particular job posting was for an AOL project,&nbsp;and&nbsp;AOL still&nbsp;wouldn&#8217;t comment on rumors.</p>
<p>I looked again at the job posting, just to make sure I wasn&#8217;t missing something. Nope, just the AOL email address at the bottom. Surely, that wasn&#8217;t evidence, right? I looked back at Media Post&#8217;s story. Pretty much what I remembered: AOL won&#8217;t comment, but there&#8217;s a job posting, and Bill Wilson told Bloomberg there&#8217;d be more sites this year.</p>
<p>Perhaps Media Post is holding back some sources that weren&#8217;t presented. I emailed the person listed at the bottom of the job posting, who didn&#8217;t respond to confirm or deny.</p>
<p>Then again, AOL already said they weren&#8217;t commenting on it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d have posted this sooner, but that darn journalistic skepticism gets in the way sometimes. <br />&nbsp;</p>
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