[Air-L] internet and homelessness

[jeremy hunsinger]

THis reminds me that there is a classic story of homeless in  
california, written up somewhere, It may have been santa monica, but i  
think the network was PEN and the googe shows http://www.mckeown.net/PENaddress.html 
   there is likley more about.
On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:35 PM, sarina.chen at uni.edu wrote:

> Years ago, a homeless person  (obviously, with no snail mail  
> address), in Des Moines, Iowa, utilizing only his e-mail address,  
> found himself a job (and thus, a home) using the Internet in the  
> public library.
>
> After that, I told my students that you did not need a snail mail  
> address to land a job, but you would need an e-mail address; and  
> that if you were not online, you were not in America (referencing a  
> service provider then, America Online).
>
> Shing-Ling Sarina Chen
> Dept. of Communication Studies
> Univ. of Northern Iowa
> Cedar Falls, IA 50614
>
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