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So how do you go about trawling for casting naked models on a website famously averse to nudity? Let Playboy’s Dana DiCillo and her pals show you how it’s done. (Hint: it involves finding a two piece swimsuit that kah-learly shows your assets … and a whole lot of perkiness!)

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· Instruction Video: Dana Dicillo - Playboy Cyber Girl (Valleywag; see also Holly Madison’s somewhat more businesslike version)

· Sample Submission: Destiny White (YouTube)

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Time Inc. EVP John Squires shows off his new hairdo

Earlier today in the Luce Room of the Time Life Building, we caught the Time Inc. Digital Showcase, detailing the Web successes of InStyle, Sports Illustrated and CNNMoney.com. All three brands have enjoyed record traffic but the talk of the day was InStyle.com’s Hollywood Hair tool, which allows users to see themselves in the hairstyle of their favorite celeb. In the past five months, 1.69 million women have uploaded their photos, totaling 40 million individual try-ons. Even EVP John Spiers got into the act (see picture).

During the Sports Illustrated segment of the presentation, SI.com managing editor Paul Fichtenbaum discussed the runaway success of the SI Vault. He anticipated getting 500,000 unique visitors in the first month (3/20-4/20), but the site received 1.7 million. It’s been four years in the making, so we’re glad the portal’s a hit.

During the Q&A, Spiers revealed that SI gets 15 percent of its revenue for digital and this number should increase to 20-30 percent. He thinks that soon all of Time Inc.’s brands will follow this same model.

(If you’re interested, TVNewser has more on the CNNMoney.com front.)

Among other worthy tidbits:

TV Guide, whose sale to Macrovision was completed last night, laid off nine editorial staffers including editor-in-chief Ian Birch, managing editor Lois Draegin and Steve Sonsky, an executive editor based in Radnor, PA. Consuela Golden, the magazine’s assistant managing editor, confirmed the news to FishbowlNY this afternoon.

Tip us if you hear anything.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

Original post by Dashiell Bennett

Ok, so he was joking… Last night’s panel, from left: Maxim editorial director Jim Kaminsky, Details EIC Dan Peres, Playboy EIC Chris Napolitano, Elle executive editor Alexandra Postman, Glamour EIC Cindi Leive and Marie Claire EIC Joanna Coles

In what felt to many like an Ellies week amuse-bouche, 118 senior-level men’s and women’s magazine editors converged upon Twenty Four Fifth last night for mediabistro.com’s first-ever joint men’s and women’s magazine dinner, “Skirts, Slacks, and Supper.” Despite the fact that we were elbow-rubbing with the same people who by Friday we’ll be seeing in our bleary-eyed, blog-posting waking nightmares, spirited conversation quickly became the order of the evening, particularly in a post-meal panel featuring Details EIC Dan Peres, Maxim editorial director Jim Kaminsky, Playboy EIC Chris Napolitano, Elle executive editor Alexandra Postman, Glamour EIC Cindi Leive and Marie Claire EIC Joanna Coles.

Here are some choice bits from them on the differences between editing men’s and women’s mags, how their political coverage differs, the advent of celeb culture, and what the hell to do about the Internet…

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

Original post by Dashiell Bennett

As expected, David Willey, senior vice president of Rodale, was elected president of the American Society of Magazine Editors today at the annual ASME luncheon. He replaces outgoing president Cindi Leive. Willey, who is the editor-in-chief of Runner’s World and the editorial director of Running Times, is the first ASME president based outside of New York in more than a decade.

Elle EIC Roberta Myers will serve another term as vice president, while New York’s Adam Moss and Self’s Lucy Danziger get one more year as secretary and treasurer, respectively.

Joining the board for two-year terms are Larry Hackett, managing editor of People, James B. Meigs, EIC of Popular Mechanics, and Ladies’ Home Journal’s Diane Salvatore.

Full release after the jump.

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

Original post by Dashiell Bennett