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Jorn Barger

<p><b>Jorn Barger</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt"><a href="/en/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English" class="wl">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span>ˈ</span><span>b</span><span>ɑːr</span><span>ɡ</span><span>ər</span></span>/</a></span></span>; born 1953) is an American <a href="/en/Blog" title="Blog" class="wl">blogger</a>, best known as editor of <i>Robot Wisdom</i>, an influential early <a href="/en/Weblog" title="Weblog" class="mw-redirect wl">weblog</a>. Barger <a href="/en/Neologism" title="Neologism" class="wl">coined the term</a> <i>weblog</i> to describe the process of "logging the <a href="/en/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web" class="wl">web</a>" as he surfed. He has also written extensively on <a href="/en/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce" class="wl">James Joyce</a> and <a href="/en/Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence" class="wl">artificial intelligence</a>, among other subjects; his writing is almost entirely <a href="/en/Self-publishing" title="Self-publishing" class="wl">self-published</a>.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></p>

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<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn"><b>Quick facts: Jorn Barger, Born...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox biography vcard mobile-collapse-element"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn" style="display:inline">Jorn Barger</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size"><a href="/en/File:Jornbarger.JPG" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" data-hash="File:Jornbarger.JPG"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Jornbarger.JPG/220px-Jornbarger.JPG" decoding="async" data-file-width="430" data-file-height="532" data-file-type="bitmap" height="272" width="220" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Jornbarger.JPG/330px-Jornbarger.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Jornbarger.JPG 2x" alt="Jornbarger.JPG"></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Jorn Barger in 2008</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">1953<span style="display:none"><span>&nbsp;</span>(<span class="dtstart bday">1953</span>)</span><br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/en/Yellow_Springs,_Ohio" title="Yellow Springs, Ohio" class="wl">Yellow Springs, Ohio</a>, United States</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>



Jorn Barger is an American blogger, best known as editor of Robot Wisdom, an influential early weblog. Barger coined the term weblog to describe the process of "logging the web" as he surfed. He has also written extensively on James Joyce and artificial intelligence, among other subjects; his writing is almost entirely self-published. 