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The PowerPoint Your CEO Must See” comes courtesy of the tremendous response we’ve received from the SEO community about the Matt Cutts SEO video we published from the Web 2.0 conference.

A few readers asked for a transcript (not available) — and no, the embedded Flash video is not search engine optimized. So we’re presenting the next best thing: Matt’s “What Google Knows About Spam” Google Docs deck in a slide show.

If your CEO doesn’t have 10 minutes to invest in this SEO deck, you can find a new job here

If there’s one slide your CEO should see, it’s the “SEO Is Good” slide.

Spam? Bad.
SEO? Good.

Last month Search Engine Watch blogger and RankAbove CEO Eli Feldblum created an industry firestorm when we published “SEO Spam is Good” last month. The post was misinterpreted, reviled and bashed by SEOs for implying that SEOs spam search engines. We didn’t have comments enabled then. Now we do.

Matt says in his blog:

I’ve always meant to do a post to say that search engine optimization (SEO) is not spam and that Google doesn’t hate SEO, but I never seem to get around to it. This presentation gave me a chance to slip those facts into the minds of several thousand tech-savvy folks.

[Thanks to Tracy O for cc-licensing the "money" image that I used in the presentation.]

Tracy O has a very cool “Where’s Waldo?” photo of a floppy disk in a landfill. Check it out. But I digress.

UNC Chapel Hill senior Eve Carson was shot and killed early Wednesday morning.

Police are calling the murder a random act of violence. Carson’s roommates reported seeing her about 1:30 a.m. at their home the day of the shooting.

We’re observing a moment of silence in memory of the UNC student body president murdered yesterday. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Search engine news can wait.

Instead we’ll look at how search engines have eliminated the last vestiges of privacy, turned private lives into public figures, and created a global community that can celebrate and honor an ordinary life.

Chapel Hill police said the body of Eve Marie Carson was found lying at the intersection of Hillcrest Road and Hillcrest Circle about a mile from campus at approximately 5 a.m. No identifying information was found at the scene — no ID card, keys, purse, or wallet.

Investigators said officers found Eve Carson, a 22-year-old senior from Athens, Ga., after gunshots were reported in the area. Police spokesman Lt. Kevin Gunter told “The News & Observer” of Raleigh that Carson had been shot several times, at least once in the head.

Police found Carson’s vehicle, a blue 2005 Toyota Highlander with Georgia plates, after receiving a tip Thursday afternoon from a witness who spotted it near Franklin Street in Chapel Hill.

Lauren Burk, an 18-year-old Auburn University student from Marietta, Ga., was found wounded by a gunshot on a roadside Tuesday night, about five miles from the school. She died later at a local hospital.

Her car was found burning in a parking lot on campus.

No one knows whetther the co-ed murders are linked. In the past, the UNC shooting would have been a brief segment on national television news; a CNN pundits’ exchange, and the inevitable “48 Hours Mystery” segment.

ABC News, though, has received more than 200 comments online from readers.

USA Today ended its breaking news story with “Here’s a Facebook page from her successful campaign (for UNC student body president.) The USA today reporter linked to her inauguration speech video on YouTube, showing her welcoming students back to campus.

The photo of Eve Carson on USAToday.com? An “Image taken from YouTube.”

Other TV news sites featured slideshows: “Pictures Of Eve Carson.” Links helped searchers put together a better picture of her life:

Link: Video Of Carson’s Inauguration As UNC Student Body President
Link: Message From UNC Chancellor About Carson’s Death
Link: Eve Carson Memorial Page On Facebook

Today, with millions of people searching for information on Eve Carson, social search engines provide a way to celebrate a life. I found one photo on FlickR tagged “eve carson.” The photo shows “A bagpipe player promoting Eve Carson for student body president.”

The most moving photos online show Eve Carson working with impoverished families in Ecuador. Take the time to watch “The Gifts of Poverty,” on the Morehead Scholars and Alumni site. You can listen to Eve Carson sharing her experiences in her own voice.

The multimedia slide show was produced by students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The credits: Nancy Donaldson, photography editing; Ray M. Jones, audio editing; Pailin Wedel, audio gathering; and Ashlie White, photography.

People all over the world will be touched by Eve Carson’s too-brief life as they search for answers about her death.

The author of Enders Game Orson Scott Card wrote in his sci-fi novel Speaker For The Dead that we would one day celebrate lives by speaking the truth about an ordinary life. To Speak for the dead, one must first unravel the web of secrets surrounding lives. One must speak not only for the dead, but for all humanity.

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It started partly at Hack Day, Kremer and Yahoo Developer Network leader Chad Dickerson told WebProNews in [...]