Jorn Barger - Definition and Overview

Jorn Barger (born 1953 in Yellow Springs, Ohio) is a United States writer, best known on the Internet as editor of Robot Wisdom, an influential early weblog. He coined the term "weblog" to describe the process of "logging the web" as he surfed.

One of the first weblog controversies revolved around his strong anti-Zionist views, which to some crossed over into anti-Semitism.

Barger is also an expert on James Joyce and artificial intelligence. At one time he worked at Northwestern University's Institute for the Learning Sciences under the influential Roger Schank, eventually departing over philosophical differences.

Previously a long-time resident of the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago, Barger was living in Socorro, New Mexico as of late 2003. An outpouring of concern and speculation occurred in early 2004 because he had not been seen online for some months, but he had been known to take unexplained absences from the Internet in the past, and this turned out to indeed be the case.

External links

• RobotWisdom.com (http://www.robotwisdom.com)
• Interview with Jorn on webword.com (http://webword.com/interviews/barger.html)
• "Is Judaism simply a religion of lawless racists?" -Jorn Barger  (http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=004ImF)
• Jorn Barger missing (http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/29966)