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title: 'Silicon Florist’s links arrangement'
date: '2008-01-21T23:40:33-08:00'
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# Silicon Florist’s links arrangement

Sometimes, a link says more than I could ever say. Here are some fragrant little buds I’ve found recently, courtesy of ma.gnolia.

#### [Join fellow Portland bloggers helping other bloggers over beers at Beer and Blog](http://www.beerandblog.com/hello-world/)

Portland bloggers helping bloggers over beers. What could be more Portland than that?

#### [Bay-area employees have “Lizard Eye”](http://gobigalways.com/bay-area-employees-have-lizard-eye/)

Portland’s Sam Lawrence, Chief Marketing Officer at Jive Software, compares working in Silicon Valley to working in Portland, to wit: “Having lived and worked in both San Francisco and Portland, and I can tell you that building a company outside the silicon Petri dish has been one of the best experiences of my career.”

#### [ORblogs and PayPerPost](http://news.orblogs.com/2008/01/18/orblogs-and-payperpost/)

ORblogs, one of the most popular aggregators of local blogs, has decided to remove pay-per-post bloggers from their directory.

[View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia](http://ma.gnolia.com/people/siliconflorist/bookmarks "View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia")