Jorn Barger is an American blogger, best known as editor of Robot Wisdom, an influential early weblog.
20 Facts About Jorn Barger
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Jorn Barger has written extensively on James Joyce and artificial intelligence, among other subjects; his writing is almost entirely self-published.
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Jorn Barger's family moved to Bemus Point, New York, in 1966.
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In high school Jorn Barger specialized in math and science, but read Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, and Jiddu Krishnamurti.
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Jorn Barger graduated a year early, as co-valedictorian from Maple Grove Jr.
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From 1989 to the end of 1992, Jorn Barger worked as a research programmer at Northwestern University's Institute for the Learning Sciences under the artificial intelligence researcher Roger Schank.
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Previously a longtime resident of the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago, Jorn Barger was living in Socorro, New Mexico as of late 2003.
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Jorn Barger has been an active Usenet participant since 1989, with "nearly ten thousand postings" to his credit.
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Jorn Barger wrote early FAQs on ASCII art, Kate Bush, Thomas Pynchon, and James Joyce.
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Jorn Barger started his Robot Wisdom site in February 1995, publishing essays and resources on James Joyce, AI, history, Internet culture, hypertext design, and technology trends.
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Jorn Barger has been recognized for his contribution to the emergence of the blogosphere.
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In September 1999, Jorn Barger posted one of the first in-depth examinations of weblogs, the "Weblog FAQ," and he led a weblog forum between August 1999 and April 2000.
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In December 1999, Jorn Barger linked to a passage by anti-zionist critic Israel Shahak, which drew a concerned response from a fellow blogger and led to allegations of anti-Semitism.
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In 2000 Jorn Barger felt he had exhausted the formal possibilities of weblogs, and began to explore the timeline format, annotating each timeline entry with a link to a relevant resource.
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Jorn Barger allowed his domain registration to lapse in early 2005, but managed to bring the site back online a few weeks later.
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Jorn Barger posted to a Twitter account as @robotwisdom until 2013.
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Jorn Barger seeks to establish a "connection between artificial intelligence and the masterworks of James Joyce," whom he refers to as a master of descriptive psychology.
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Jorn Barger's website has been cited for "extensive research into the Ulysses and Finnegans Wake manuscripts," yet very little of this work has passed academic peer review.
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Jorn Barger seemed to acknowledge this when he published his list of "50+ Joycean Conjectures".
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Jorn Barger has contributed one book chapter on Finnegans Wake and a book review in the James Joyce Quarterly.