I’m required (by myself and employers) to provide a certain amount of output on a daily basis (including this blog). For the last two years, I haven’t missed more than 3 days of providing this output, and only because I was either really sick or had to deal with an emergency.
Missing those days were really […]
Micro-blogging is appealing because a witty or insightful one-liner definitely takes less time and effort to compose than an essay. There’s no need to follow any structure; all you have to do is just express.
While websites like Plurk and Twitter can be liberating for this very reason, it carries a certain danger for people who […]
The DVD release of Super Size Me—at least the one I’ve watched—contains a bonus video. In it, host Morgan Spurlock conducts an informal experiment, keeping a burger and some fries in a bottle, and checking on them. While the burger basically rotted away after 40 days, the fries were eerily similar to how they looked […]
A bit busy now. In the meantime, you can check out the following:
Are You a Thriving Web Worker?
Freelancing helps crack the ‘glass ceiling’
6 Reasons Why Freelancers Should Have a Niche Blog
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Maintaining my freelance career and day job means my schedule is a bit brutal. I say this with shame: on particularly busy days, I’m so tired that I do my work as quickly as possible so that I can sleep—quality be damned.
Somehow, this speed-oriented outlook led to resentment of my commitments. That in turn led […]
Kudos to Barbara Chandler for discovering what she likes to do—and what she’s good at:
Barbara Chandler has not been hit by the credit crunch but when the creative freelancer says she works three jobs, and has done for most of her life, you think you know why.
That’s until she reveals that just two of them, […]
A bit old, but if you’re looking for that great Wordpress theme for your personal portfolio blog, check out WPZOOM’s 45+ Free Premium Wordpress themes, the “Premium” here standing for layouts and functionality much much better than your typical Wordpress theme. Check it out here.
My personal favorite: Thunderbolt. While it requires you to “link” an […]
Reader Helga shares two wonderful articles on Wordpress theme-making:
Wordpress Developer’s Toolbox
Different Ways to Display Content in Wordpress
Too lazy to use Photoshop? Reader Josh shares an image-resizing tool rundown on ReadWriteWeb. My personal favorite in this category is still Picasa though, since it also lets me manage my pictures.
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A friend recently told me why she wanted to go into freelancing:
Eventually, I wanna work from home. So best to start freelancing and build a client base.
Such a great reason to freelance, condensed into two pithy sentences! Of course, how well you build a client base depends on how well your market yourself. But wait, […]
I’ve already talked about the productivity benefits of the dual-monitor setup. An alternative is to just buy one big monitor.
Now I’m trying out an HP w2228h; consider this my unreserved recommendation for the 22 LCD display. It features HDMI, DVI, and VGA ports, which is a techie way of saying that it works with practically […]
Showing why "Freelancing" Isn't Just an F-Word Through Shared Experiences and Useful Info.
Written by Rico Mossesgeld [email] for b5media.
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