Seth Godin got the best busi­ness advices, here comes another one: ask your cus­tomers if you can pitch in times of cri­sis. Don’t buckle down, let’s face the not-so-hard truth: great times are com­ing up for small enter­prises and net­works: after all, the small over­head costs allow for effi­ciency. So there’s actu­ally no need to worry, unless you’re plan­ning on launch­ing a new car com­pany. Or a web designer, for that mat­ters — Which brings me to my first news of the week:

TechCrunch reported the sad story of a guy try­ing to sell his Digg-Account on Craigslist. Right now, TechCrunch is col­lect­ing money for his rent, since there’s not enough web design work:

Got some change? Fresh water and help needed

Moun­tain­Dan is look­ing for sup­port: Twest­vial Wien is sup­posed to bring the Twit­ter com­mu­nity together and raise money for a good cause at the same time:

Check Dan’s blog for all the details — right now, there’s a lot of orga­niz­ing going on, and help­ing hands are needed!

Harley David­son lays of 1.100 workers

The cri­sis of the inter­na­tional auto-industry is spread­ing over to bike man­u­fac­tur­ers: Harley David­son recently announced that the com­pany will lay off more than thou­sands work­ers: after two good decades, 8% less bikes were sold in 2008, for this year another 10% decrease in sales is expected.

Shoe­money on O’Bama’s inauguration

Jeremy is as far as I’ve noticed not quite the biggest fan of America’s new pres­i­dent — and this descrip­tion is hilar­i­ous, I just have to quote the whole post.:

Today a young man, whose father aban­don him when he was a young boy, whose hippy mother takes him into Indone­sia and into harms way as a young man, whose grand­par­ents raise him as a youth and ado­les­cent , who busted his ass and did it all him­self, will be sworn in as our Pres­i­dent today.

Such a great Amer­i­can story.

God Bless America.

Video of the Week

What is social? Hans Peter Brondmo (Plum) doesn’t give a tech­ni­cal expla­na­tion but focuses on the basic human need to com­mu­ni­cate — can’t argue against that:

So another week has passed in Blo­gis­tan. Luck­ily, the win­ter seems to lose strength here in Vienna — and motor-bike sea­son is back on soon; I can’t wait. Have a great Sun­day, don’t for­get to check back next week.

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