Digital Common Sense

I’ve written a bit lately about casual computing and how it relates to mobile computing for me personally. I use a variety of mobile tools. And while I do carry a laptop almost all the time, more and more, I’m shifting to lighter communications tools for everythign I do.

This weekend, I’m taking a long weekend in Cannon Beach, OR again. Here’s my office from Thursday through Sunday.

Office in Tow

Where I’m Headed

Again this trip, I’m making a casual/mobile computing round of the week end and weekend. I’ll be working solely from my Treo, and Nokia N95 & N800 pair. No laptop.

While that might sound disconnected and impossible to work with, I thought I’d take a minute to share what I’ll be testing and working with while I’m there.

On the Nokia N800, I’ll be writing, blogging, doing email, making VoIP calls via both Gizmo and GoogleTalk. I want to do a couple video calls this trip as well. It will be accessing the net via GPRS pairign with the N95 and WiFi when I’m in range of an access point. It will be on 24X7, just like when I’m working at my home office.

On the N95, I’ll be making cell calls, testing the new TalkPlus beta, Using Gizmo for VoIP calls, updating what I’m doing with the Jaiku beta I’m testing, taking pictures (posting via both Flickr and Lifeblog), and generally staying connected.

The other tool in hand will be my Nikon D50. It’s a family outing and I’ll be taking lots of picture like I always do. And I can easily swap the memory card from the Nikon to either the N800 or N95 for sharing online.

In short, I’ll be barefoot on the beach, exploring tidepools, flying kites, eating good food and having a great time. But I’ll be fully connected in casual computing mode, an in touch. For people who don’t read here or know me, they’ll never even know I’ve slipped away to the beach to recharge my batteries.

Casual computing is about working any time, anywhere, doing whatever we need to do on our terms. I think this work approach will reshape how we all work in the next few years, and it’s something I’m keenly interested in. I believe casual computing and how we interact with our social and business networks are going to completely reinvent our notion of work.

Technorati Tags: Casual Computing, Treo, N95, N800, social networks, reshaping how we live and work

Filed by Ken at 12:39 pm under Meandering, Mobility & Handheld, Portable Pleasures - PDA/Smartphones, Unified Communications, VoIP/Unified Communications