Notes on Jorn Barger and Blogging

I don’t believe it has taken me so long to put up a blog. I just came across an article in Wired about Jorn Barger, who I met in Chicago and spent some time with in the late 1980’s. He is a self-educated genius type who was working at Northwestern on Artificial Intelligence at the time. It turns out he is credited with coining the term “weblog,” after posting his own insights on the Web. His interests are pretty diverse including an obsession with James Joyce and singer Kate Bush. Here’s the article from Wired, a piece on Jorn in the Wikipedia (he was clean shaven when I knew him) and his famous Robot Wisdom Weblog, though I prefer the Map page, where I find most of the links still valid.