A 7-year walk of our ancestors (+ twitter)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20902355
One man, alone in the wilderness – time to think, without the constraints of our modern-day world, simply walking like our ancestors from Ethiopia to South America… except for the obvious use of twitter and a laptop for blogging!
On one hand, the use of technology could be seen as a distraction; defeating the object of retracing the steps of elders (although it is very unlikely they did it in a one-er!) – whereas, the other would say this is a unique opportunity for others to learn more about our world, a human experience through one man’s eyes, with technology providing an archive of something otherwise only held by a single individual.
As we see in the readings this week (esp. Bell 2001) people learn through stories and this is an excellent one to tell!
… Much like the day I invited a sofa-surfing nomad in for a cup of tea and he told me of his (far less glamorous) 6 year walk against the system… but that’s for another day! 
This is a great story Amy, thanks for posting the link. ‘Slow journalism’, like slow scholarship, is something I bet we’d all be willing to defend! Your comments make me think about some of the literature on posthumanism that troubles the distinction between the ‘natural’ and the ‘technological’ or cultural. I think another ‘big’ story popular culture often tells itself is about the way in which our immersion in technology alienates us from nature and from the natural world. This journalist’s project is in a sense telling a counter-story – one which I think could be really powerful. I’ll be checking back at the web site!