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Last spring's pink-slip parties - one last hurrah before unemployment became reality - are now but a blurry freefood-and-booze memory. The high-tech slump shows no immediate sign of improving its posture. Savings accounts grow thinner by the week.
What are laid-off dot-commers doing to cope?
Most of them are looking for other jobs, of course. But in the words of Michael Feldman, who most recently was founder and CEO of Tools Inc., a marketing services company that shut down in the af termath of the Internet downturn, "You can't just look for a job eight hours a day."
He and friend Andy Brenner, who had been co-founder and vice president of business development at the now-defunct Mspect, a wireless Internet infrastructure services company, were recently unemployed and were standing in line for a movie when they got the idea for Recessioncamp.com.
"Andy said, 'I bet there are thousands of people in the Bay Area like us;...