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title: 'Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 17'
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# Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for October 17

#### [Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy](http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html)

Paul Graham writes “The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies. When Microsoft and Apple were founded.”

#### [Downtown Portland Restaurant, West Cafe, Offers Dinner Twitter Promotion](http://www.westcafepdx.com/blog/downtown-portland-restaurant-west-cafe-offers-dinner-twitter-promotion/)

West Cafe offers “Portland Twitterati are invited to spend some quality time at the West Cafe, a fine downtown Portland dining and drinking establishment. Because we’ve begun to experience such a positive response to our involvement with the Twitter community, we wanted to ‘Thank You’ by offering Twitters a special dinner deal.”

#### [Apply to the Knight News Challenge ](http://andrewhyde.net/apply-to-the-knight-news-challenge/)

Andrew Hyde writes “$5,000,000 is being given away to fund innovative ideas that address the following points: Use or create digital, open-source technology as the code base, use news and information to serve the public interest, benefit one or more specific geographic communities, and be innovative.” Um, hello? I can’t swing a piece of bacon without hitting 20 Portland startups that qualify for this.
 (The hardest of the 4. A map mashup 

#### [Would You Like a Job as an Online Community Manager?](http://marshallk.com/would-you-like-a-job-as-an-online-community-manager)

Marshall Kirkpatrick writes “One of the services that I provide for consulting clients is assistance in recruiting bloggers and social media experts for hire. In the past 2 months I’ve helped 3 companies find company bloggers or community managers. Right now I’m working on a list of 3 to 5 high-quality candidates for a community management position for a very innovative and cool startup.”

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