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	Previously a long-time resident of the ] neighborhood in ], Barger was living in ] as of late ]. An outpouring of concern and speculation occurred in early ] 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 indeed, this turned out to be the case; Robot Wisdom returned February ].		Previously a long-time resident of the ] neighborhood in ], Barger was living in ] as of late ]. An outpouring of concern and speculation occurred in early ] 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 indeed, this turned out to be the case; Robot Wisdom returned February ].

	~~By summer ] Barger's fortunes continued~~ to ~~decline. He was spotted on the street in San Francisco appearing disheveled, homeless, and depressed by the~~ writer ]. In a brief ]		According to writer ] in a brief ]
			article, the lapse of "Robot Wisdom" occurred when Barger was broke, unemployed, sleeping on the floor of a writer friend in ], and could not affort to re-register the domain name. Barger said that he plans to move to ], presumably ], and that if he needed to ] for cash he had a sign ready reading "Coined the term 'weblog,' never made a dime".
	article Boutin reported that Barger was broke, unemployed, sleeping on a friend's
	floor, and had resorted to panhandling by holding a cardboard sign
	bearing the message, "<i>Coined the term 'weblog,' never made a dime</i>" (',' Wired 13.07, July 2005). Barger also claimed to be leaving San Francisco for Memphis.

			Around this time the small text motto at the top of the Robot Wisdom front page was changed from "''smooth moove, president ex-lax''" to "''buck israel and see (i dare you)''".
	Around this time Barger made his <i>Robot Wisdom</i> blog more
	explicitly anti-Israel, adopting the motto "<i>buck israel and see (i
	dare you)</i>" at the top of the front page.

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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.

An active participant in Usenet during the 1990s, he wrote early FAQs on ASCII art, Kate Bush, Thomas Pynchon, and James Joyce.

In 1994 he formulated an "Inverse Law of Usenet Bandwidth": "The more interesting your life becomes, the less you post... and vice versa."

By 2000 he felt he'd exhausted the formal possibilities of weblogs, and began instead to explore the timeline format, annotating each timeline entry with a link to a relevant resource.

His resources on James Joyce are extensive and are referenced in academic websites. He has referred to Joyce as as early pioneer of artificial intelligence as the master of descriptive psychology.

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 indeed, this turned out to be the case; Robot Wisdom returned February 2005.

According to writer Paul Boutin in a brief Wired Magazine article, the lapse of "Robot Wisdom" occurred when Barger was broke, unemployed, sleeping on the floor of a writer friend in San Francisco, California, and could not affort to re-register the domain name. Barger said that he plans to move to Memphis, presumably the one in Tennessee, and that if he needed to panhandle for cash he had a sign ready reading "Coined the term 'weblog,' never made a dime".

Around this time the small text motto at the top of the Robot Wisdom front page was changed from "smooth moove, president ex-lax" to "buck israel and see (i dare you)".

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