Jorn Barger is the inventor of the term “weblog” and writer of robot wisdom, one of the longest running and most interesting weblogs out there. But he has been missing from the Internet for several months. Just today I started looking around to see what’s going on. I found his most recent Usenet post, made two months ago. I couldn’t find any later evidence of activity, and quickly gave up. He’s had absences before, and I figured he’d show up again eventually.

Then suddenly every weblogger on the planet started linking to this: Have you heard from Jorn Barger? Apparently he’s been missing from meat-space as well, for about two months. Today’s the day, apparently, that me and everybody else noticed.

UPDATE: Seems like he is fine, but is laying low for a while.

All I can add to previous post is that he made it pretty clear that Barger had asked to have his privacy respected. I gather in a somewhat abrasive manner, along the lines of, “I don’t have to to tell you squat. This is America.”

So move on, nothing to see here.