<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, homeless]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, homeless]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/homeless http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/homeless <![CDATA[Google chef in homeless shelter]]> Google's cafeterias are an arm of its PR machine. One can read endless paeans to their free, organic, locally-sourced, employee-engorging meals. But you'll never read about how they're serving up homelessness as a side dish. Google pays its chefs so little that at least one has ended up in a San Francisco homeless shelter, unable to find a $1,000/mo. studio he can afford.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=356298&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Homelessness Is the New Blogging]]> Cyberpunk writer Paul di Filippo tells of the San Francisco of the future, in which a dozen named bloggers, most of whom have print gigs and none of whom actually hail from the city, wander around San Francisco's fugtastic Transamerica Pyramid. Filippo runs into BoingBoinger Cory Doctorow:

Patting his back, I said, "There, there, Cory, surely you didn't expect anyone to be truly astonished by this old ragbag assortment of clippings and ephemera. It's not like the old days, when you could effortlessly ride the bleeding digital edge of culture, shining your spotlight on weird niches before anyone else could get there."

This does not bode well for us.

Plumage from Pegasus [Fantasy and Science Fiction]

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