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Wired News From Living Large to Just Living
"While the layoffs and closings are real, a study released Friday confirms the IT sector is still growing in Silicon Valley. Not at the wild and crazy pace of early last year, of course. But growing nonetheless.

So a techie caught in the great dot-com crash probably won't have much of a problem getting a new job.

But the rest of the folks who rode the wave and started to think all administrative assistants make 80 grand and get catered lunch every day are in for a dose of reality -- if they haven't been handed their lunch already."

The New York Times Silicon Valley Job Growth Begins to Slow
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"The report also illustrated the diversity of high-technology employment in the valley, where job growth continued despite the collapse of the dot-com industry in the second half of last year.

Growth in software-related companies continued to top the list, with 30,000 new jobs last year. The semiconductor industry added 4,900 jobs and bioscience added 3,100. "

A List Apart Survivor
"IT'S UGLY OUT THERE, but how bad is it, really? We asked some of our peers how they were coping with the crisis in the web industry. Below, they tell their stories in their own words. At the end, you can share your experiences."

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The Standard Layoffs, Schmayoffs
"God, this stuff makes me crazy. Last Monday, a big headline across the cover of the San Jose Mercury News read, "Dot-coms are facing tough times." Similar stories ran that day in the Wall Street Journal, as well as on Reuters and the Associated Press. "

""The significance of these layoffs is minuscule," says Mat Johnson, market strategist for the San Francisco-based investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners. "There is massive job churn in this economy, and people are getting rehired faster than they're getting laid off. It's more of a commentary on the companies, because a lot of these dot-coms have not been viable in the marketplace. But from what we can see, Internet job creation has continued to maintain a heady pace."

Beyond the headline-grabbing layoffs, what's more relevant to the financial markets is that Web business models are facing a new, healthy scrutiny."

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...[T]he Web log reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the "discovery" of the networked world. And there are surely lessons for us in the parallel. For just as the cabinet of wonders took centuries to evolve into the more orderly, logically crystalline museum, so it may be a while before the chaos of the Web submits to any very tidy scheme of organization.”

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