Silicon Alley Insider's Peter Kafka lavishes praise on Quincy Smith, CBS's hyperactive interactive dealmaker. The ostensible reason? A well-executed deal between Digg and CBSNews.com, designed to avoid offending the fragile feelings of the social news site's oversensitive communities. Forget all that. The real reason? Kafka has a massive mancrush on Smith — as does just about every other tech reporter I know. Smith is witty, adorable, and just geeky enough for us to relate. He's also got an open pocketbook to buy Web properties, which makes him a font of story-generating deal rumors. But he's mostly adorable. Oh, those eyebrows!

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