Look around our site, Technomadia.com, and you’ll see very little evidence of monetizing our blog. There’s a reason for that – we never set a goal of blogging for dollars. Many folks adopting mobile lifestyles do plan to utilize their blogs as a source of income to fund their travels by affiliate sales, ads, sponsorships […]
Work Life
Introducing: State Lines for iPhone
Because some things change when you cross the line… Traveling around the USA, you likely have had some of the same experiences we have… You pull into a new state, decide it’s a good night for a beer, and assume you can stock up at a grocery store. You search and search, only to find […]
Workamping at Amazon.com pre CamperForce – Was it Worth it?
We spent the last part of 2009 trying out workamping at Amazon.com’s fullfillment center in Coffeyville, Kansas. We finally have enough of the details brought together to share our assessment about the financial rewards, hours involved and challenges. As we generally earn our income doing various technical & marketing consulting, both remotely online and onsite, […]
Featured on Gizmodo: Santa’s Elves at Amazon.com
While we joked that working as seasonal elves at Amazon for the past month felt more like being an investigative reporter than a workamper – we never imagined that our retelling of our experience would be of interest outside of our blog. We were thrilled when Joel Johnson of Gizmodo contacted us earlier this week to […]
Digital Fasting
One of the things that worried us most about taking the workamping gig at Amazon’s distribution center in Kansas was their strict no cell phone policy. That would mean for 12 hours a day for a month, we would have no contact with the outside world – a very weird concept for us digital nomads. […]
Keeping Vampire Hours
Working a night shift has been a most interesting experience in body & mind hacking. My circadian rhythm has totally adjusted – however it stills feels odd to go to bed after sunrise, and wake up just before sunset. We picked the night shift as I needed to be at least available to my regular […]
Inside Amazon.com’s Coffeyville Warehouse
We’ve been “workamping” at Amazon.com’s Coffeyville Kansas fulfillment center since November 22. One of Amazon’s staffing agencies, ExpressPro, has for the past several years organized bringing in hundreds of RV-living workampers to help out in Amazon’s peak season. Express and Amazon pay camping fees, and provide a “honey wagon” tank dumping service for sites without […]
10 Most Popular Holiday Gift Items
For those curious about what people are buying this season, I thought I’d share my observations about what are the most popular items being shipping based on what I’m personally packing while we ‘workamp’ in Kansas. Lots of folks getting cameras for the holidays.. here are some that are most frequent buys and apparently incredible […]
Tales from Technomadia – Now Featured in HearPlanet
One of the consulting projects we worked on this past year was orchestrating the launch of the mobile travel application HearPlanet. HearPlanet’s goal is to turn your cell phone (currently just iPhone’s, but other phones will eventually be supported) into a location-aware audio tour guide to entire the world. It’s a fabulous concept, and it […]
HearPlanet Launched
We have been hard at work helping organize a launch of the HearPlanet iPhone application, that just hit the AppStore last night! It’s launching at an introductory price of $3.99, although we will be running a free promotion during MacWorld next month, along with our uber cool double decker launch party bus. – If you […]
