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September 9, 2008 • 4:21 pm

The Flackenhack Awards are back for 2008! Adopt-a-hack?

After the roaring success of last year’s inaugural Flackenhack Awards, the world’s leading alternative event for the UK’s technology PR and media community is back = this time on Weds, October 29th, 2008 at The Village Underground, 54 Holywell Lane, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3PQ.

Promising to be “bigger and messier than last year”, the organisers say they’ve come up with a genius plan to get as many technology journalists to attend without them having to put their hands in their wallets ie members of the tech PR industry can buy a hack’s ticket for them on eBay.

Make your way to the Flackenhack 2008 Awards blog for more detail about the event. You can even help decide which hacks should have their tickets auctioned.

And adding to the social media frenzy around the event, there is also a Facebook group.

Tickets are now on sale here.

Go on. You know you want to. Last year’s event was a lot of fun and a refreshing change – here’s to making the 2008 event event better. (There you go TWL, will that do?)

Filed under: Humour, Technology PR, Web/Tech, tech pr ,

2 Responses

  1. TWL says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Perfecto!

    Thanks very much Smithy…see you there.

    Reply
  2. Andrew Bruce Smith says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    Mon plaisir!

    Reply

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