Om Malik’s blog network is starting to take shape as he launches WebWorkerDaily this afternoon. The new site is a blog for the distributed worker, where the office is wherever their laptop happens to be. Cell phones, Skype, laptops and other tools have made it possible for an entire generation of workers to do their thing outside of an actual office. This blog is for them. The writers will give advice on the newest tools to make your virtual office more efficient. Om calls this a lifestyle blog, for anyone who works outside of the walls of cubicles.
I think the design is magnificent, with its play on the Soviet Union’s hammer and sickle emblem. Web 2.0 workers unite! It’s time for a revolution.
http://www.egob...ss.com/what.htm
very nice – great idea and good call on the UI design Mike.
Ok, boss – if you insist!
not you marshall. get back to work.
Looks great! How well does it work?
I like that one. Just added their RSS feed to my reader. Thanks for the tip.
Web 2.0 has jumped the shark.
This is only the beginning, Web 2.0 will extend its wings to all industries. In the future, cubicle will only be a thing in our memories. We have to foster our intelligence as a collective community.
I read a book that touched on this topic:
The Future of Work By Thomas W. Malone, co director of MIT’s landmark initiative “Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century,”
~http://ccs.mit.edu/futureofwork/
In the future, everyone’s voice will be heard.
LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!
Mike,
thanks for your kind words, and wishes.
These legions of “liberated” workers makes me feel like a mindless corporate drone stuck in the bronze ages. Thanks a lot!
Comment: Horrible UI and choice of colors. I can’t read the posts….
Might be an interesting idea, if I could read the content.
I think Om needs to clarfy. This is targeted at geek distributed workers. I’m not sure what problem this solves for people that have real PRODUCTIVE jobs that actually provide goods and services for everyday people. My guess they will have little time nor need for a site like this.
Reminds me of http://www.workhappy.net/ , also an online productivity/tools blog.
Nice design. The site will prove helpful to people who travel a lot. Even for people who do not need to travel, there are some handy tips that they could use.
I assume that Ideacodes were hired to bring this new venture to market, considering they re-designed GigaOM.
That said, while Ideacodes does excellent work in the Web 2.0 design-osphere, compared to Mike Rundle, they just aren’t at the same level. While some aspects of GigaOM have improved since their re-launch (and the content is superb) next to Rundle, they pale in comparison – especially when choosing usable colour schemes and fonts.
“My eyes, my eyes…The goggles do nothing!”
Terrible choice of colors.
This has zero value to readers.
This only has value by way of ROI to GigaOM investors who see the potential lucrative exit via a “blog network”
it’s a blog for the sake of another blog.
there is no reason why this content could not be served up on GigaOM under one of the current categories.
but I guess I would be doing the same if the objective was a cash windfall.
This is an on going trend for the well known bloggers to spread their brand.
I just wonder if it’s going to have the opposite effect.
Time will tell.
“value” in a “blog network”
I agree with NeoTechie. The cubicle will only be a thing in our memories in the future. Web 2.0 has given the worker more power and in the same time unshackled him from the confines of the office.
Om’s idea to start a blog on this is an excellent idea.
Great. I’d like to how all this could improve the daily life of translators.
I am actually starting a translation company and would love to be able to manage it from wherevere I am goig to be. Hope this applies also to translators on the move..
We’ve been a virtual company for 2 years and only now am I a Bedouin, progress at last I guess as I have a name. Also I read about the kit we are supposed to use – a cellphone and no Skype – hello?
Latest hype aside, it is a serious point, and it is a major dislocation – this sort of change will shift settlement patterns, economic structures, social habits and coffee house prices.
now where’s that latte……………
I also maintain a blog on the subject of globalization, distributed work, and technology’s vital role (http://www.wovenlabs.com/blog). It takes a big picture approach, looking at the forces changing our world, and how technology is enabling much of that. It’s part of the organization I’ve been pushing towards, called Woven. Mike, Marshall — I hope to share more with you guys soon.
I liked the first few entries at WWD, though it focuses on the priveleged amongst us, taking laptops from spot to spot, freelancing, enjoying the New Boom. I think the era of distributed work is about so much more.
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I’ve been running something called coworking for the last year and a half; it’s community office space for telecommuters. We’ve already got two of them in San Francisco, stuffed with lots of open source hackers, video bloggers, and more. Check out our Wiki:
http://coworking.pbwiki.com
And feel free to visit our space:
http://hatfactory.net
Best,
Brad Neuberg
codinginparadise.org
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