This is the last installment of E-Business Secrets that will be published by InfoWorld. I will continue to send out this newsletter, but I'm switching it to a new e-mail publishing system, which was described last week.

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THE BIGGEST HITS OF 2003

I periodically give you a report on the E-Business Secrets links that were clicked the most by a representative sampling of my readers. Whenever I publish a "Best Of" issue, many of the top-ranked links get even more click-throughs in the following week than they attracted the first time out. (I call this the "if-everyone-else-liked-them-they-must-be-good" effect.)

To celebrate the switch to my new publishing system, I'm sharing with you the most popular items published in the newsletter in 2003 to date. To allow comparisons between links that were published months ago with links that appeared only last week, I count only those click-throughs that occurred within seven days after an issue appeared.

Each item that's shown below bears a score. I give a link a score of 10.0 if it received a number of click-throughs equal to the average of all links during the four-month period. A link that received twice as many clicks as the average gets a score of 20.0, and so forth.

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THE THREE BEST LEAD STORIES OF THE YEAR TO DATE

SCORE: LINK

22.9: How Matt Drudge's two-man Web site nets $800,000 a year

http://www.business2.com http://bri.li/4e8a

13.9: Jewel's site strikes a chord with fans

http://www.soulcitycafe.com http://bri.li/6212

8.0: Out-law.com's study reveals spam image-tracking codes

http://www.out-law.com http://bri.li/71b2

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THE TOP THREE NEWS PICKS

36.5: Can you tell a real photo from a digital fake? Let's see

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com http://bri.li/452

36.3: The 300 best lines from first 14 years of The Simpsons

http://www.observer.co.uk http://bri.li/83a

34.5: DVDs you buy may wear out after two or three playings

http://www.smh.com.au http://bri.li/c22

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THE BEST OF WACKY WEB WEEK

47.1: Excellent squirrel-fishing photos

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu http://bri.li/c3ba

38.4: Signs of preparedness protect you from terrorists

http://www.uspoliticsforum.com http://bri.li/d742

35.8: What if we'd had the Fox News Channel back then...

http://forums.fark.com http://bri.li/e6e2

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: E-Business Secrets is written by Brian Livingston: http://SecretsPro.com

Research director is Vickie Stevens. Brian has published 10 books, including:

Windows Me Secrets: http://www.amazon.com http://bri.li/0764534939

Windows 2000 Secrets: http://www.amazon.com http://bri.li/0764534130