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San Sharma is back with more '3rd place' ideas. 3rd places are those environments outside of your home office where you can continue to work. And this is San's weird and wonderful top 5.

1. On your treadmill

Blogger, Jonathan Fields, may write about personal growth, but he's not getting any bigger! He burns 600 calories before lunchtime on his "treadputer" - a treadmill 'mod' that includes a computer at its dashboard. He walks just one mile per hour for four hours a day, five days a week, whilst typing away to keep his blog updated, his mind clear and his body in good shape. (Thanks to Em for spotting this!)

• How I burn 600 calories a day blogging - [Awake At The Wheel]

2. With colleagues on a 'Conference Bike'

If working from home keeps you away from your office bound colleagues, why not get together every once in a while for a face-to-face meeting? You can literally steer the conversation with Eric Staller's Conference Bike, a tricycle peddled by 7 riders sitting in a circle. Only one of you needs to steer, while everyone peddles. It looks ridiculous! But like a lot of fun.

• Conference Bike! - [Eric Staller]

3. 40,000 feet in the air

In a previous edition of this column, I mentioned a US new story that announced a new kind of '3rd place' - 40,000 feet in the air. Airline company, JetBlue, is launching a new free wi-fi service on its Airbus A320, and taking away the last excuse from our email!

• 3rd Places: JetBlue - [Enterprise Nation]

4. Virtually, in Second Life

"How did a nice girl like me end up being such a geek?" writes Aliza Sherman for Web Worker Daily. Aliza is a serial entrepreneur in a virtual world, running several business in Second Life. "Some of the businesses in the virtual world are adjuncts to what I do in my First Life, others are completely unrelated and probably things I could never do in 'real life,'" she writes. "However, when you’re a freelancer, you take the revenues wherever you can get it!" Aliza is one of thousands making money in virtual world, Second Life. Read an account of her day there on the link below.

• Just Another Day in Second Life - [Web Worker Daily]

5. At the bottom of your garden

I've described him as this before, and I'm sure he won't mind me saying it again, but the insanely brilliant Alex Johnson, blogger and friend o' Enterprise Nation, works from his shed and loves it so much he keeps the only "daily updated guide to the lifestyle of shedworkers and those who work in shedlike atmospheres." Check it out on the link below and let Alex lead you down the garden path to a third place altogether more tranquil.

• Shedworking - [Alex Johnson]

– San Sharma
San Sharma is a creative thinker, blogger and designer, as well as a writer on popular culture, technology and business.

• www.sansharma.com