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I first met Linda Broughton — head of NTI Leeds, part of Leeds Met University — in May 2007, at a meeting on the use of open-source software in the public sector where I planted the seed of an idea to develop a coworking community in […] Read more »

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James Ward is a member of Leeds’ Old Broadcasting House (OBH) coworking community in Northern England, working as freelance “digital coach.” I spoke with James on his thoughts and experiences over the last few months as one of the most active evangelists of his coworking community. […] Read more »

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Though the second edition of Going Solo – a conference for freelancers, planned for September – was cancelled, organizer Stephanie Booth pressed ahead and hosted a BarCamp-style unconference, SoloCamp. Though I was only able to attend the opening sessions with around twenty participants, the initial session […] Read more »

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Back in April, my first post for WWD introduced Going Solo, a one-day conference for freelancers that took places in mid-May, right on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland’s Lausanne. (Disclosure: I’ve been advising Going Solo as an unpaid volunteer helping with strategy & logistics) […] Read more »

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So you thought you’d escaped the cubicle farm when you decided to put down roots in your local coworking community? Think again! The cubicle is back! At Leeds’ The Round Foundry in the UK, entrepreneurs in the creative and digital industries can opt for traditional serviced […] Read more »

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The options for the iPod touch and iPhone got a little more diverse today, as Apple added a 32GB touch and a 16GB iPhone. Both retail for $499. The touch will ship in 1-2 business days and comes with free engraving, while either iPhone will ship […] Read more »

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[qi:_earth2tech] Confused by all these cleantech technologies? Yup, we are too. But Earth2Tech has it all figured out. Today they’ve put together an FAQ for carbon capture and sequestration, including what it is and who all the startups are that we need to be keeping an […] Read more »

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Among the questions we’ve asked our panel of online video experts was this one: Which enemies will make friends in 2008? Selections from their responses are below. We’d love to hear your take on the question or on our panelists’ predictions in the comments. For more […] Read more »

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So I’ve had the Vye S37 review unit from Dynamism about a week now. Steve has his full review of the 1 GB unit up (he too, tested with 1 GB and 2 GB) that’s a great read and it reminded me to follow up on […] Read more »

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Microsoft has Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 available for your syncing pleasure…or pain, depending on your past experience. ;) This is for Vista users only as ActiveSync was rewritten and re-badged for the new operating system. This update includes: InformationRights Management activation – Automatically configure the […] Read more »

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Since WiMAX is the flavor of the week, every news outlet has something to say about it, whether they get it or not. MIT Technology Review does a round-up, and trips up. For some odd reason, they make an assertion that Nextweb and Clearwire might already […] Read more »

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OpinionJournal: David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale and senior fellow at Scientific Computing Associates says IBM made a mistake by getting out of the PC game. He argues that PC might be 25-year-old, but so was television in the 1970s and airplane in the […] Read more »