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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.
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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 [http://www.shorehamlife.com/2014/05/tom-foolery-shoreham-by-seas-new-coffee-shop/] on my local blog (for local people) a couple of weeks ago.
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How the design of a Starbucks store sells
Fascinating: Design is such a vital part of retail experiences.
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The hideaway office
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/next-starbucks-holmbush-3446.html] 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.
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My morning office
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/04/toast-by-the-coast.jpg] This morning, I got a bunch of writing in the ever-wonderful Toast by the Coast [http://www.toastbythecoast.co.uk]. I want to get in the habit of recording my variety of working places these days…
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 I encountered plenty of new theories
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Free Starbucks WiFi = Local News Opportunity?
Yesterday, the news broke that Starbucks will start offering free WiFi in the UK [http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/10/07/starbucks-rolls-out-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
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, just off the A3 in the
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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. [http://webworkerdaily.com/2006/10/10/one-laptop-per-table/] A whole new meaning to “together alone” there…
Blogging
Where do you write?
Practical Blogging talks about the coffee shop as an ideal place to write [http://sleepyblogger.com/?p=383], based on an article in USA Today [http://www.usatoday.com/life/2006-10-04-third-space_x.htm#]. This is a familiar idea. In fact, it’s been something of an obsession for me since
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The Coffee Shop Office
This is a great story: > Wired News: Monster Fueled by Caffeine [http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66276,00.html]: SAN FRANCISCO — Delicious Monster [http://www.delicious-monster.com/] is the Mac software company behind the hit Delicious Library, a program for cataloging collections of books, movies and
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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 [http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jul/04/foodanddrink]: > ‘Coffee shops