• Mike tells us the news cycle is now 90 seconds long.
• “There is no time to waste! Waste is folly. Waiting is pain. I have pain.” W+K London gets a doozy of a follow-up message from a job-seeker.
• “I think cucumbers are very sensual, don’t you?” A previous W+K job-seeker seems to channel Eric Stratton in his reference to supermarkets, oranges and bananas.
• CNW sent me this about their move to include social bookmarking links on news releases distributed through their wire. Only 11 months after this.
• 7 Ways to Tap Into Enthusiasm, from Mark McGuinness.
• A reminder that informal networks are often the key to knowledge, influence and promotion in an office.
• Leveraged Sell-Out has a good piece on speed dating, but here’s an amusing pull quote:

“…Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that being in PE meant that half of my life was going to be spent traveling to shitshow portfolio companies to boss around retards twice my age with the business acumen of Accenture employees? That would have been nice to know (not that it would have changed much) …”

That quote goes out to my friend Peter. For all you marketing types, PE means “Private Equity.”

[tags] CNW, private equity [/tags]