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I got married on Friday and am off on honeymoon until 22nd August. Back soon.

Bite is working with Peace One Day to help create the planet’s largest ever peace community and today we’re officially launching the world’s first “digiwristband” to enable people to make their own commitments to peace in support of Peace Day on 21 September 2007. (you can see mine on the right)

Peace One Day began as a film project founded by British filmmaker Jeremy Gilley in 1999 to establish the first ever-annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence. In 2001 the Day was unanimously adopted by UN member states as 21 September annually - Peace Day. Jeremy has amassed an impressive list of high profile supporters through his work including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Chris Martin, Annie Lennow, Sam Taylor Wood, Jonny Lee Miller, Simon Fuller, Sir Richard Branson, Kofi Annan and others. In 2006, 200 countries committed to Peace including all 192 UN member states, directly involving 27.6 million people. Pretty amazing stuff.

On Peace Day, Friday 21 September, there will be activity taking place in hundreds of countries around the world. At Peace One Day’s flagship concert at the Royal Albert Hall a host of star names will perform live and contribute through messages and films. Annie Lennox, Corinne Bailey Rae, James Morrison, Beth Orton and Marc Almond will all perform live, and they will be supported by video messages and specially filmed pieces by David Beckham, Jude Law, Lord David Puttnam and others.

In support of Peace One Day in the run up to Peace Day and beyond, we are trying to make as many people aware of the project as possible and inspire individuals, schools and corporations to make a commitment to peace, create a “digiwristband” and help spread the word by displaying their commitment on their MySpace profile, Facebook, profile PC wallpaper, mobile wallpaper, email signature, blog or website.

The Peacemaker wall displays all Peacemakers around the world and you can see Jeremy Gilley at number 1, Simon Fuller at number 19, myself at number 27 (!), Corinne Bailey Rae at number 186 and Bite at number 219.

You can help support Peace One Day by:

1) Making a commitment and displaying your digiwristband on your blog, website, MySpace or other online profile that you can add HTML to
2) Adding the Facebook Peace Commitment app to your Facebook profile and inviting your friends and networks to do the same
3) Blogging about Peace One Day and encouraging other people to make a commitment and spread the word
4) Spreading the word about Peace One Day in any way you can by emailing your friends and colleagues, including it in a newsletter, featuring it on your website etc etc

Go on. Do it now. Help us create the planet’s largest ever peace community.

All images, logos and other assets can be found here.

Started a group on Facebook for “everyone that works in PR doing a “digital” role. Please join us if you fit the bill - and you get to talk about how whack the name is and all sorts of other intelligent things.

Bite is hiring. Get in touch if you think you fit the bill and please do pass this on to any smart, creative people you know that might do. Email ukhr at bitepr dot com with a copy of your CV and tell the lovely people at Bite which job you are interested in. Just waiting for TWL to get in touch.

Just in case I need to remind you - I work at Bite

So, I’ve been away and pretty much offline for the past week and a bit. And it feels good. Had some time to see my family and generally catch up with a lot of stuff, which is nice. To kick things off, here’s a boat company using YouTube to host video demonstrations - something I came across while doing some stag-do research. I thought that was pretty cool for those guys to be using YouTube and the video made me smile.

until April 10th . . . which may or may not mean that there are no posts until then. My gut feeling is that I’ll post more because I’ll have more time to catch up on everything geeky. But I just wanted to let you know in case I decide that now is a good time to unplug completely.