A bum in a Google cap

Posted on August 16th, 2005 by Sacha Chua

“Invented the word ‘weblog’, and never made a dime.” Jorn Barger.
Online legend, now homeless blogger living on a dollar a day.

Wow.

From Ton’s Independent Thoughts, from the blogroll of Seb’s Open Research.

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