infobong.com

Like The Homeless Guy, the Treesit Blog provides an interesting view into the life of an activist living on the margins of society. Its author, Remedy, lives atop an ancient redwood to stop logging companies from mowing down the forest. In a sloppy paper that I'm too ashamed of to post, I argued that the blogs like the Homeless Guy, - and this one had I known about it - can raise attention to an issue and increase sympathy since blogs tend to empahsize the subjectivity of their authors, not to mention the fact that they give poor, but literate, activists a low-cost means to get their message out.

I learned of this site through Slashdot, which I'd grown tired of in the past year or so, but I'm again finding it an interesting source of information. I don't know if its because I don't get the torrent of IT press releases I got when I wrote for a computer magazine, or if the stories they post are becoming more relevant to me.