TechCrunch40 puts the “social” in social media

A web entrepreneur writes:

16. The homeless situation in San Francisco is crazy. Like mad crazy. Like “what are you people thinking?!?!”… I was hit up aggressively by 10 folks in under ten minutes outside the Cliff Hotel by Union Square the other day. San Francisco has got to lock this problem down.
17. Driving around San Francisco at 1AM is like a scene from Night of the Living Dead. I was weaving around mobs of homeless, drunk, and hipsters who at one point I feared would surround the SUV screaming “brains!!!!!” and turn the thing over. Again, San Francisco WTF?!?! How do you people live here? What’s the crime like? All this coming from a New Yorker who’s has been mugged three times (all unsecessful thank you very much–represent).

But luckily comments are enabled (if only for 24 hours) and the next day everything has sorted itself out:

1. In my last message about the zombie/hipster/homeless problem someone gave me a tip which has restored my faith in power of blogging: “One thing I’ve found in SF is that the homeless don’t walk up the steep SF hills, which is why I live on a hill in North Beach. They tend to reside in flatter areas with more people, like in the Mission.”

I’d heard that Romero’s otherwise poor “Land of the Dead” was a satire, but I didn’t realize they’d moved the setting from Pittsburgh, PA to San Francisco…

At least 15% of the US population are “off the network”, as the latest Pew/Internet report puts it. According to official figures, 47 million, or 15% of the population, have no health insurance; and more than 36 million live in poverty.

Let’s hope next time the zombies find an SUV that actually has brains in it.