The picture above was taken while enjoying a cup of coffee up on top of the Space Needle in Seattle. While I was up there, I was able to send some tweets, check my email and record a video. And yes, the coffee was a key ingredient to the equation.

One of my absolute favorite things about being a professional blogger is that I can more or less do what I do from anywhere. With the proper equipment, I can run my business from home, from a coffee shop, from the beach or from the mall.

My home base is my home office. There I have the fiber optic connection to the Internet and a super fast Mac Pro to work on. However, usually at least once per week, I’ll take off and head to a coffee shop for a change of scenery. I bring the Macbook Pro with me and I can do anything that I could do from home, albeit with less screen space.

My portable dot-com lifestyle also includes the following equipment:

• The Flip Video Mino. I use this to record videos on the go. I can just pop the camera into the USB port of any machine, offload the videos, and quickly upload them to the Internet. Since both of my Macs have iMovie 08, I can even do my video editing wherever I might be.
• Iphone 3G. The Iphone is a blogger’s phone. I run Twitterific or Twinkle for keeping tabs on Twitter. I have the Facebook app so that I can keep up with Facebook on the go. The WordPress app allows me to blog from the phone if I’m brave enough to use the tiny keyboard for a whole post. I can snap photos and upload them to either TwitPic or my Flickr gallery. Of course, I use Safari to get to anything else. I could even use the iPhone for Internet access if I dare go up against the AT&T tethering policies.

Making money online means I am making money whether I’m plugged in or not. I don’t have to be working in order to make a sale. However, when I do work I can do it from literally any location on the planet with an Internet connection. I haven’t yet gotten an aircard for the laptop to connect from anywhere, but may consider that in the future.

As I type this post, I am sitting out in my family room with the baby typing on the MacBook Pro. So, the dot com lifestyle even means I can sit here and deal with a crying baby while I blog. Hhhm….that part I could probably do without.