Skellie, a stalwart of Problogger, has launched a new blog of her own called Anywired. Billed as a place to learn how to work the hours you want from anywhere in the world, it looks very promising.

One of her first posts is a list of ideas to help you start working online. Excellent ideas, with several I’d never have thought of (but with my art skills or lack thereof, a web comic really isn’t in the cards). My only criticism? I find the font very hard to read … it’s fine for headings, but not for running text.

Do take a look at Anywired … I think this one’s going to be a keeper.

Maki at DoshDosh is introducing a new regular feature: Weekend Media.

I consume a lot of information every week through all forms of media: Apart from blogs and online magazines, I regularly read books and watch films. I love to learn new ideas and I thought why not share what I read or watch with my readers?

It’s an interesting idea, which brought to mind a problem I see for bloggers in two situations:

Bloggers whose mother tongue is not English

Despite the exponential growth of non-English Internet users and bloggers, the language of commerce on the Internet continues to be English. There must be some serious challenges to bloggers who write in English but for whom it’s a second-language.

This has been brought home to me in recent years, since I became part of another group: Continue Reading »

Part 2: The Work

As I hinted in my last post, neither Mrs. Tuppy nor I have taken mainstream jobs here since our move to Israel. Instead, with the freedom that the Internet gives us we both work in the US from a distance, although in rather different ways.

Like most people, my picture of offshore workers used to involve computer support staff in India but the truth is that there are some very highly-skilled professionals working across time-zones around the world. My wife is an assistant to a small group of radiologists — all American trained and board certified — who cover the night shift in a series of East Coast hospitals. Since almost all imaging is now digital, rather than on film, files can be sent to Israel as easily as they’re sent down the hall to the radiology department in the hospital. Continue Reading »

Part 1: The Move

One of the miracles and blessings of the Internet is the freedom that we have to work from anywhere. Three years ago my wife and I took advantage of this to facilitate a dream we’d had for many years … but first, some background.

I grew up in England, and lived there until I was around 20. In college I majored in American Studies and thus had the chance to study in the US. I spent my junior year at the University of California in Santa Barbara and that, as they say, was it. I absolutely fell in love with America and during my final year of college back in England I made plans to return for graduate school. As chance would have it I got a scholarship to study at the University of Kansas and, in my naivete I figured “California … Kansas … How different could it be?” Continue Reading »