The McKinsey Quarterly has just released it’s top articles of Q1 2009.
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The most popular articles are:

Six ways to make Web 2.0 work (My favourite article and top pick too.)

A better way to fix the banks.

Five trends that will shape business technology in 2009.

Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers.

I took the 2008 survey

Are you a webmaster, web designer, or information architect?  Do you make a website? If you do, A List Apart wants you!

The 2nd annual Survey For People Who Make Websites is aimed at anyone involved in making websites. The survey seeks to gain a better understanding of the jobs, salaries and demographics for those of us that work the web.

Thanks to Rob at LibTech Life for bringing this one to my attention.

The latest issue of Backbone Magazine presents the top 20 Web 2.0 players in Canada. The PICK 20 is “the first and only national roundup of Canada’s Web 2.0 pioneers and practitioners”. Winners were selected via public nomination and a panel of judges comprised of industry practitioners and experts.

The selection process involved dividing Web 2.0 into 4 implementation categories: problem solving, innovation, collaboration, and, knowledge sharing and management.

The PICK 20 Winners for 2008 are as follows:

1. Club Penguin (innovation)
2. FreshBooks (problem solving)
3. ConceptShare (collaboration)
4. Cambrian House (collaboration)
5. Smallthought Systems’ Dabble DB (problem solving)
6. Octopz (collaboration)
7. Open Text (knowledge sharing)
8. Kaboose (knowledge sharing)
9. Standout Jobs (problem solving)
10. NowPublic (knowledge sharing)
11. blogTO (knowledge sharing)
12. Jiibe (collaboration)
13. Something Simpler (innovation)
14. Mob4Hire (innovation)
15. MovieSet (collaboration)
16. b5media (knowledge sharing)
17. SmartHippo (innovation)
18. ThoughtFarmer (problem solving)
19. Protagonize (innovation)
20. Store Ops-Center (problem solving)

You can read more about each winner in the latest issue of Backbone.