• oDesk Blog: Anybody that works out of his or her home (and doesn’t have pets) knows that it can get lonely sometimes. Ah who are we kidding… A LOT of times. Here are some great ideas to cure freelancer’s loneliness.
• Freelance Folder: Sooner or later, every freelancer makes a mistake. Hey, it happens. Just learn to smooth things over so you don’t lose your client.
• Web Worker Daily: It’s ideal in freelancing to have a  passive income stream, or automated income aside from that received from your normal freelance work. Passive income, however, should be looked at as more of a necessity instead.
• Daily Mail (UK): Who knew it would come to this… Facebook and Twitter users are facing higher insurance premiums.
• Copyblogger: If you are losing your motvation as a freelance writer, then get down to what the issue really is.
• Ken Reynolds Design: Once in a while we run into a freelance project that requires a skill we may be lacking. Is it worth it to, say, take up a crash course tutorial in PHP over the internet and dig in or, instead, just outsource the work?
• {grow}: Excellent advice to increase your influence on Twitter from a highly influential user.
• Personal Branding Blog: Want to know what the habits are of the best bloggers out there to increase your brand awareness?
• New York Times: Microsoft Office will soon be free over the internet. I never imagined I would be typing those words, ever.
• CNN Go: Stress killing you? Then you might like to buy one of these. I opted for the feces rocket myself.

More on the author, Johnny Spence
Johnny is the founder of The Freelance Rant and a freelance web programmer with 8 years in the business. Have a visit at his company Oscarrr!web or see what he's up to on Twitter.

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