am I misunderstanding something...or is this just a list of new jobs that were reported to them? If so why is there so much surprise that there are more announcements of hiring a CEO or VP and not some low level developer?

Vaksel - we scour the web far and wide to report on every hire we can find, from the execs that put out press releases to the low level developers who post on twitter or their blogs about getting hired.

I can confirm this. I am a web developer and the day after I updated my LinkedIn profile to reflect my new job they wrote a short article about my employer hiring me.

Awesome site. I like what you guys are doing with jobwire a lot.