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Looking forward to the big piss-up where flacks get to abuse hacks for once in a while. Sorry about joining twice. I just typed in what I thought were my sign-*on* details, and it seems to have signed me *in*. Continue

Seen this story in Media Guardian?!

Apparently, on Monday night, the PRWeak jobs website started sending out the personal data of users - including login passwords - to its entire registered database..!

I don't think we need to worry too much as it was the US website, but still...

You'll be pleased to hear that the buck was immediately passed to a contractor,

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I decided long ago that I hate people. I can't stand them, and I really dislike everything they happen to create. I know what you're thinking: "Hey, Justin, You're a person, too!" Well. Crap.

I got nothin'.

I just hate people.

I think it started when I was a young child, of about six, and I went to a podunk elementary school with nothing but country bumpkins. After about two days of first grade, I was asked what church I go to. I was confounded. What were they speaking… Continue

Legend dictates that if Ryan Giggs look-a-like Martin Veitch ever left, VNU Towers will fall and the kingdom will fall.

Well, fall it might. Tired of waiting for a big fat redundancy cheque, the Geordie jester finally tossed his Ziff contract in the bin after 17 years and joins the IDG revolution to be editor in chief of CIO Magazine and CIO.co.uk.

Everyone is after the elusive CIO audience, given the great wedges of cash vendors would spend waving their brands in CIO faces.… Continue

What's this I read in PRWeak this morning? Edelman signs up Mark Pinsent, "the force behind the acerbic blog" ...the world's leading...?

Oi, Pinsent. Stop taking all the credit. Scumbag.

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Haven't seen one of these screamers for a while:

"Social Networking Sites Costs [sic] UK plc £6.5bn in Lost Productivity"

So I guess it's about time.

This one's from Global Secure Systems, so you'd have thought the release might've focused on security rather than lost productivity. It kinda does later on, with this lovely bit of scaremongering fro

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What I'm hoping is that people will join as themselves (it'd be nice to know who's here...) and post lots of silly and sensible stuff on their little blogs and the forum...provoke a bit of discussion, create a bit of banter. That sort of thing.

I'd also like to see a bit of the old school TWL style of rumour, gossip and piss-taking. I'll do my bit, but if people have stuff that they'd rather not have their name attached to, then all they need do is email me and if I think it works then

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PR is one of a few professions where it’s automatically assumed that people within it are two-faced. And indeed they are. I find it the most challenging part of the job, and have the bruises to prove it.

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Been on a sabbatical. Not that I'm back, really, it's just that lots of people have told me how much they miss TWL...and that they need somewhere to vent, gossip and chit-chat. So I thought we'd have a go at this social networking I've heard so much about.

It's up to you lot really. I'm not going to chuck loads of content up here (there'll be the odd nugget, I'd imagine) so we need people to join and contribute. And we'll see how it goes.

Let me know if you want things added...l

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