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Originally uploaded by Orli Yakuel. Instead of attending endless conferences and collecting fancy Web 2.0 schwag, you can purchase it from Valley Schwag for $14.95.

The height of Web 2.0 hilarity.

Even more bizzaare? Someone willing to pay over $100 for a t-shirt ;-)

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In a case of winning the battle and losing the war…

A report by the defense department warning that using pay-to-play techniques in the Iraqi war and paying journalists for positive coverage could damage US credibility was released this week.

Well…duh!

Here is my article about the Lincoln Group the read more...

Todd Defren, who blogs at PR-Squared and works at Shift Communications embodies the spirit of what I like to call PR 2.0 or open source PR.

He also took an early lead in actually doing something about envisioning a way to spruce up the tired old read more...

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Originally uploaded by striatic. You probably have heard that your television will one day be a computer. Well, that reality has come to San Antonio, Texas. AT&T;, which is headquartered here, has been laying fiber optics cable like crazy around town in its Project Lightspeed initiative.

They just finished laying some outside the gate of my read more...

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Originally uploaded by boxed13. I will be writing an occasional feature called Your Take, which will be about issues of importance to the public relations industry.

I don’t profess to know all of the answers and I hope that you will speak out on these issues here or in your own blog if you have one, Thus the title “Your Take.”

Let me know if you see anything out there in the industry that you feel read more...