(I can't believe that anyone's really that interested in my opinions, but here goes :)

Answer #1:
PerlMonks does get a couple of mentions (tho' it seems that only one made it into the index). I think that the publisher sees PerlMonth as more of a 'real' magazine (even tho' it now seems to be defunct). Also, to be honest, a lot of the publicity blurb was written some time ago, when I was spending more time on PerlMonth stuff than on PerlMonks.

"Perl makes the fun jobs fun
and the boring jobs bearable" - me