CEO Mike Kisseberth has eliminated a number of senior managers in the last three months, including the publisher of Macworld, director of consumer marketing for PC World, and the senior director of marketing for PC World.

Carroll was promoted to the position in April 2007, shortly before CNET veteran Kisseberth replaced IDG CEO Bob Carrigan, who was serving as acting CEO of the PC World/Macworld group. Hopefully Carroll won't take too much of the advertising business for the magazines that he oversaw with him.

No wonder the smarter-than-your-average-trade-journalist Fox returned from going-nowhere startup Affinity Labs, which he joined after helming fading star Infoworld, an IDG monthly for IT professionals that no longer publishes in print. How will Fox get modern computer enthusiasts, both excited and jaded by the Internet, to buy a magazine? Just a suggestion, Steve: "Summer Glau's 72 Ways to Terminate PC Problems"(Photo by Dealmaker Media)

Which is nonsensical: One of PayPal's features is that it gives merchants a verified address. And why wouldn't they get in touch to complete the order? Apparently he "might have good news in February." Some customer service that is. Snafus like this prevent the OLPC project from being taken seriously. If you can't ship laptops to a few reporters in California, how can you deliver hundreds of thousands of laptops to developing countries? Of course, the nonprofit has no profit motive to spur it to deliver on its promises. The invisible hand has a way of providing visible results.

PC World telephoned the website's 800 number, the call was answered by a man identifying himself as Darius Parker, who claimed to be a consultant, and then president of the company. Parker claims had been contacted by representatives of about 30 political campaigns to date.

"They're asking me the details of a specific geographic location and what I can do to enhance the election for them," Parker declined to elaborate on exactly what kind of services he is offering. "If you're not an employee or a representative of a campaign, there's really not much I can tell you," he said.

Vote early, vote often and remember fix two Ohio districts, get the third one free.

Web Site Offers To 'Fix' Elections [PC World]
[Fixavote.com]

• Segway (founded by Dean Kamen, funded by VC John Doerr, patronized by Segway polo player Steve Wozniak) announced two new vehicles: a street model and all-terrain model of the next generation of the Segway Scooter. They'll build villages and hamlets around them, respectively! [NYT]
• Microsoft launched a desktop-run blog-writing tool, which like every piece of software was invented by Dave Winer years ago. [Windows Live; Winer's blog]
• The PC turned 25 years old, spurring PC World to live in the past with another damn "history of __" story. [PC World]

That's no way to crank up newsrack purchases. So we commissioned Gawker contributor Jennifer Thorpe to sex it up:

Which PCW Cover Would You Buy: Results! [PC World]