You probably thought I’d forgot to pick the 3 winners of the Search Engine Marketing, Inc. book contest, didn’t you? Well, you’re right. I did. So, let’s do that right now…

Congratulations to the following winners:

• Pratt
• Shelby
• Ari Herzog

On to today Picks:

• Social media guru Brian Solis has a greater primer on crisis communication in the internet age.
• ProBlogger Darren Rowse has launched a new blog all about Twitter.
• If women make up a large part of your audience/customer base, you should check out this survey of 800 of them.
• Social networks Wink and Reunion have announced they are merging.
• Widget maker RockYou raises $17M so it can expand into Asia.

Yesterday the New York Times spoke of the ‘success’ of Yahoo during this election marathon that is thankfully winding up (I hope) in the next 48 hours. This election process has been a boon for news sites and the equivalent of a ‘millstone around the neck’ for people like me. How much more can one say or do or think or accuse or lie or point fingers about at this point? Apparently enough to make Yahoo beef up its coverage and anticipate a banner day.