Beyond the Rhetoric

If you’ve been keeping up with the updates on both the official Dot Com Pho website and Twitter account, then you’ll know that I posted a very special Dot Com Pho public service announcement earlier this week. Some people may assume that since John Chow no longer lives in Vancouver that the weekly gatherings have [...]

When you chat with some freelancers, they’ll tell you that the freelance experience doesn’t really offer much more freedom than a regular job. In fact, they’ll tell you that they have effectively traded one boss for several bosses. Instead of being pulled in one direction by one person, they’re being pulled in several directions by [...]

Coming back from my third time at the Consumer Electronics Show, I started to wonder whether physical business cards were still relevant. If I had already been in contact with this person via e-mail in the past and each of us have our appropriate contact information in our e-mail signatures, is it still necessary to [...]

One of the reasons why someone may be hesitant to embark on a career in freelance writing is the definite potential for an unstable income. It is very well possible to land a lucrative contract one month and to draw deep into your savings the next month. Getting into this entrepreneurial realm, you have to [...]

Every Wednesday, I link out to some interesting posts that I find in the blogosphere. Some of these show up in my Google Reader, since Google dominates my life. Others, I just happen to stumble across in the most random of fashions. If you want your blog featured in a future edition of WUW, be [...]