I’ve got a couple of Google Alerts running about coworking and Office Nomads. Usually when something comes through on the Office Nomads one, it’s under the “Blogs” heading as when Laura posted about us (sorry for just getting around to linking back Laura. No excuses.) and it always starts my day off well when see that because I’m not expecting it.

When the “Web” heading has something about Office Nomads though, it’s nice to see, but I know it’s coming because that means an article has been published somewhere and we know when that’s going to happen.

So imagine my surprise when I checked my email this morning and there was a Web alert for Office Nomads, in the New York Times!

Coworking sites are up and running from Argentina to Australia and many places in between, although a wiki site on coworking shows that most are in the United States. While some have grown-up-sounding names, most seem connected somewhere between the communalism of the 1960s and the whimsy of the dot-com days of the ’90s, like the Hive Cooperative in Denver, Office Nomads in Seattle, Nutopia Workspace in Lower Manhattan and Independents Hall in Philadelphia.

Sweet! This is the second time in 2008 that the Times has mentioned coworking. Obviously Jacob and Susan are onto something. (By the way, I think the name Office Nomads is great and has nothing to do with the communalism of the 60s or the “whimsy of the dot-com days.” I think it speaks to the new ethos in our professional work force. But that’s me.)

Yes, that’s a picture of Susan getting her picture taken. The photo shoot is actually for another article on Jacob and Susan coming out soon.