Blogging from the streets
Homeless bloggers uses the internet to better their lives.. By Erin Roof
New media technology has given homeless people the opportunity to raise awareness of their cause. In some cases, the public attention has helped them get themselves off the streets and into homes.
New Media Awards nominee, Wandering Scribe, is a blog following an English woman who was living in her car. Through her beautiful story telling about the trials and terrors of being a homeless woman, she has been able to gain a book deal and a place to live. Wandering Scribe still blogs–but now she writes about what it is like adjusting to having living in a home.
The Homeless Guy is a blog that highlights homelessness issues around the United States. Blogger Kevin Barbieux also gives concrete advice about how to help homeless people and details what life as a homeless person is really like. Macauthority.com find out about Barbieux’s situation and donated a refurbished iBook to help him keep blogging.
Aside from using blogs to raise awareness about homelessness, both have links to PayPal accounts, so interested readers have an opportunity to donate.
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The use of computers for the homeless is at the present restricted to people seeking work in most day centers so for someone who has a blog is great news for me as i have been a blogger now for over a year and although no longer homeless i was for over thirty five years plus the fact that i was an addict as well meant that a lot of doors were closed to me. the fact that my blog gives my own opinions and other peoples i thought would be refreshing and the fact that we now have homeless people blogging is the best news
i am a student in the south of the UK.
I would like to hear from homeless bloggers in the uk
If more homeless people get access to internet resourses, such as cafe’s and libraries then surely the non-homeless will begin to gain an insight into a different persective of the world.
the internet should be used as a communication tool …a tool that is accessable to all….in the literal sense.
Thanks to jamie
And thanks to WS
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