New Media

From Jon Swift’s deliciously satirical blog post about critics of homeless people with cell phones, Let’s Make Poverty Less Enticing: “Contrary to what many people think, the poor are actually very rich, which explains a lot.”

Love it.

Cell phones and other mobile computing devices may actually help the poor and homeless to network, find potential employers and locate opportunities to improve their lives overall. There is already some very interesting experimental work going on in Vancouver around this, led by Fearless City.