Not a super week for links this week, but that’s because I was working on lots of other things, so didn’t have time to spend surfing the Web. If you’ve got something cool we should check out and share, leave it in the comments.

• # 7 on this list is my favorite. But there’s so much more to this list that is fascinating. Predictions 1, 2 and 3 are spot on. One of my non-Office-Nomads gigs is writing for a very behind-the-times publishing company that I’ve been trying for four years now to stop from sending their weekly flagship publication as a PDF… but they’re all old and stuck in their ways. Their time will come.
• I have to admit, I am a bit surprised that for the second week in a row, the Smal Biz Resource blog is on my links of the week, but it’s actually an interesting read. This week, it’s results of a study about the effects of telecommuting on those stuck in the office. Not surprisingly, those left behind don’t like it.
• Laura, a friend of Susan’s (who, incidentally introduced Jacob and Susan) posted an awesome picture taken in the space this week. I had to share.

Welcome to Office Nomads’ first Links of the Week post. We’ll plan on putting these up on Fridays. They’ll include a collection of links from around the Web (where else would they come from?) that we found interesting but didn’t write a full post about or other items we feel you should notice.

• From Mbites comes a post on coworking flash-mob style. We love the concept because it brings folks to work together in a communal setting but gives it a catch-as-catch-can quality that appeals to our wild side. Anyone who wants to try and flash-mob a work day here at ON is more than welcome!
• That CNNMoney article continues to bring us some wonderful attention. This time from the Small Biz Resources Blog where Gayle Kesten notes that while freelancers are happy to see the kids back in school after the holidays because of the silence it brings to home offices, that silence quickly becomes deafening. Coworking to the rescue!
• Jacob decided that along with starting the coolest coworking space in Seattle, he’d try and earn some life points for doing it too. Go vote for him at RealityAllStarz.com. Let us know in the comments if you’ve got a project you want points for too.
• Blog pimpin’. It’s gotta be done or no one is ever going to know about the joy of Office Nomads’ blog. So we added the blog to Technorati. You should go there and give us a little boost. We’ll throw a vote right back at ya if you ask us to.
• Finally this week, we found a great list of useful web apps over on Lifehacker we decided to share. Hopefully something on this list will make your days go a bit more smoothly.

That’s it for this week. Hope you had a great and productive week. Enjoy the weekend!

Photo is courtesy Laenulfean at Flickr. Thanks!

I came across a wide-ranging article about the coworking phenomenon on Corofolot’s Creative Seeds site today.The piece caught my interest because it addresses problems beyond the lack of office tools and distractions in coffee ships and that we independents face when making choices about where to work.

A temporary on-site cubicle, a cobbled-together home office, and a jovial but ultimately isolating coffee shop are the three most common options, and all of them lack the most important quality of the ideal creative workspace: other creative workers with whom to interact.

By the end of the article the author, who is obviously a proponent of group-work spaces, sees coworking spaces like Office Nomads and other as a one more cog in this new-style economy we’re all building and imagines coworking’s place in the evolutionary scale of work places. He calls it “a step on a continuum” and mentions groups who have formed coworking spaces organically such as Independents Hall in Philly and TENPOD in PDX.It’s amazing to me, now that I’m paying attention to it, how much we all think about where we work and how that space really affects the quality of our work (not to mention our enjoyment in doing it).