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| Digital Nomad Blog Carnival #7 Posted: 24 Jan 2010 07:17 PM PST
I’m this month’s host of DNBC, a traveling (from blog to blog) online carnival– a digest of the most recent month’s best posts for anyone who interested in the live-anywhere work-anywhere lifestyle (we call them digital nomads). MoneyI’ll start out this month’s edition with a piece I found on yahoo.com’s homepage this morning. US News’ 21 Things We’re Learning to Live Without (by the way, I love when a print publication writes something in a list format, which is so borrowed from the online world), which talks about all the stuff we used to spend money on before the economy went to hell and consequently, hey look, life isn’t so bad without $7 carmel-mocha-venti-whathaveyous and (gasp) putting things on your credit card with no plan of paying it off. In fact some people are saying the trimmed down lifestyle actually simplifies their life and frees them to focus on other things. A great reminder (or refresher) for anyone trying to scale down their own lives. Real Life EducationWant to learn French? Learn how to sail a boat? Isn’t that a big reason why most people dream of traveling? It’s not the security lines at the airport, that’s for sure. It’s learning about another culture through whatever door appeals to you the most– and in this case, you can learn all of these things from anywhere. The School of Continuing Education from Brainpickings.org lists some of the more interesting online offerings for uncredited education. My favorite is the LaidOffCamp’s offering of “How to be a Digital Nomad.” Brilliant. TechnologyJust released this month, the super cute, very tiny Asus laptops just announced that they’ll be packaging the Boingo software on new releases. Boingo, if you’re not aware, is the wifi service used all over the place (like airports) but it costs about $5/hr to connect. I’m not a fan of pay-per-use wifi, but this deal includes a 50% discount for Asus owners, which might be just enough for me to trade in my beat down Dell and get one of those mini devices myself. Fellow NomadsVicky Baker from the Guardian actually contacted me for this piece, so I have a little pride in knowing that one of her sources was recommended by me (they all had to be UK based). She wrote this great piece for the Guardian.co.uk, Escapees Traveling the World While Working Online. There’s some great profiles of folks (from all different phases of life) who have made the leap. The New VanguardI love it when folks get together to create something great, something bigger than their individual efforts. Recently The Untemplater launched, a brand new site dedicated to the finer points of living the unscripted life. They’ve even written a manifesto, which despite sounding like something written by cave dwelling geniuses with at least slightly malevolent tendencies, is actually a collection of six case studies for living off-the-beaten path. Looking forward to reading more from this group. Kill Your Online LifeFinally, I’ll leave you with this video from the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. I’m not there yet, but there is something inherently appealing about simply killing off your Facebook profile, ignoring all emails and dismantling your online connections one by one. I don’t think it’s all or nothing– these tools make a lot of what I do possible– but I do sense that growing frustration (which I share) about all the ways the online world creeps into your daily life. pic: Don Solo
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