Free Post coffee shops Birthday treat Back on my feet, and enjoying a quiet coffee & croissant and a beautiful morning from a window seat in my favourite coffee shop. And feeling old. But happy.
Free Post coffee shops Office of the day: Tom Foolery My lovely local coffee shop, Tom Foolery, was my morning office. Fab coffee, lovely staff. I wrote about it on my local blog (for local people) a couple of weeks ago.
Free Post coffee How the design of a Starbucks store sells Fascinating: Design is such a vital part of retail experiences.
Free Post coffee shops The hideaway office I have a “dirty secret” office. And it’s a Starbucks. Up at the top end of Shoreham by Sea, there’s an out of town retail area with an M&S, a Tesco’s – and a Next. And in that Next, there’
Free Post coffee shops My morning office This morning, I got a bunch of writing in the ever-wonderful Toast by the Coast. I want to get in the habit of recording my variety of working places these days…
Free Post Brighton Third Place Thinking I’ve long been fascinated by the concept of the [Third Place (or Space)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place) – the liminal space between home and work. It’s a lingering obsession from my days as a commercial property and architecture journalist, where
Free Post coffee shops Free Starbucks WiFi = Local News Opportunity? Yesterday, the news broke that Starbucks will start offering free WiFi in the UK. They’re not the first – you can get free WiFi in Caffe Nero already, for example – but the content partnership model they’ve followed in the US suggests some intriguing
Free Post blogging Saved by Starbucks The problem with having a job where you help other people blog, is that is leaves you too little time to blog yourself… However. I’m enjoying a quiet little catch-up with my RSS feeds in a Starbucks located, in a slightly sinister manner,
Free Post coffee shops The Laptop Legions On a similar theme to my last post, Web Worker Daily has a slightly sinister photo of laptops users in a coffee shop. A whole new meaning to “together alone” there…
Free Post blogging Where do you write? Practical Blogging talks about the coffee shop as an ideal place to write, based on an article in USA Today. This is a familiar idea. In fact, it’s been something of an obsession for me since I ran an article in Estates Gazette
Free Post coffee shops The Coffee Shop Office This is a great story: Wired News: Monster Fueled by Caffeine: SAN FRANCISCO — Delicious Monster is the Mac software company behind the hit Delicious Library, a program for cataloging collections of books, movies and games. The software is selling like hot cakes and has
Free Post coffee shops The Third Space The Grauniad gets all excited about the idea that coffee shops are becoming a transitory space between work and home, where you can relax or carry out business: Whipless or Skinny? Our flirtation with the bean gets serious: ‘Coffee shops have become the third
