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Five good, quick reads from around the web this week:

1. Recruitment lessons from the E-Expectations report: Kyle James of .eduGuru breaks down Noel-Levitz’s annual report on how prospective students and their parents use the web and social media. A great summary.

2. Managing information overload: Six good tips from CKSyme.org.

3. Building a social media users’ guide: It’s a question of trust: Good insight from Tim Nekritz about his experience.

4. Embrace the silence: Peter Shankman on knowing when to shut the heck up.

5. The 12 habits of highly connective people: Terrific post from Conversation Agent, with a bonus video of Anil Dash talking about making connections.

With Wednesday’s public launch of Visual.ly, the site that lets people create infographics using web-based data, it didn’t take long for a co-worker to introduce me to Visual.ly’s tool to generate a visual representation of my Twitter persona. Mashable has more about Visual.ly, and you can check out scores of cool infographics by visiting the site itself.

Here, according to Visual.ly, is what my Twitter self looks like. It’s nice to know I’m almost 20 percent interesting and 15 percent enthusiastic. Consistent my Visual.ly avatar’s facial expression, I am unfazed by these revelations.

Based on the keyword data at the bottom, I’d call this more of a snapshot in time of recent Twitter use, rather than a comprehensive visual representation. But it’s still interesting and fun to see.

You can also use Visual.ly to compare yourself to other Twitter users, or to compare separate Twitter accounts.

Linking back to my recent Friday Five post about online influence measurement, here is a comparison of the two biggies: @Klout and @PeerIndex: