Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle by Kerry Miller
Coworking facilities blend the appeal of an independent environment with many of the advantages of the traditional office.

brief excerpt...

Over the past few years, coworking facilities—both grassroots, co-op-like versions and for-profit models—have started popping up across the country and the world, from Seattle to Copenhagen. A CoWorking Wiki hosts pages for dozens of other cities with coworking initiatives in progress. And while the concept of shared office space is nothing new to entrepreneurs, an increasing number of them are signing on and finding that the community-building and networking benefits outweigh even the virtues of a shared fax machine.

photos & profiles of some coworking spaces

ps - please note that the original article in ms miller's article is wrong. it is not co-working it is coworking and you can find more information at http://wiki.coworking.info or http://coworking.pbwiki.com

personal opinion - i guess i have a gripe. ms miller totally gave off the impression of being institutionally blind, asking me many questions, and requesting formal introductions to everyone in the coworking community... and to my surprise there's not a single quote! instead she found others to represent my statement. maybe i should just accept this and be happy. despite the fact she has the wrong URL, i'm glad she featured the hat factory and 116 west houston.

....going back to the drawing board to sketch out a bigger picture...

this article, sans my personal opinion is cross posted on blog.coworking.info

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