Wired: "Robot Wisdom on the Street"

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:23:40PM -0500, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
> I came across this _Wired_ article from last year telling the sad
> story of Jorn Barger:
>
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/posts.html?pg=6?tw=wn_tophead_5
>
> Barger was one of the original bloggers and is credited as the first
> to use the word "weblog" -- he started the "Robot Wisdom Weblog" in
> 1997. But now he's a panhandler, drifting from town to town and
> managing to live on less than a dollar a day. While in San Francisco,
> he panhandled with a sign that read:
>
> "Coined the term 'weblog,' never made a dime."

Barger himself contests various details of this account; for a
short summary see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorn_Barger

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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