# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-x-cringely
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:51:09.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-x-cringely"
name: "Robert X. Cringely"
slug: "robert-x-cringely"
description: "Robert X. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in InfoWorld, the one-time weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG."
tagline: "American technology journalist and columnist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_X_Cringely_keynote_2006-10-05.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1953-01-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             18.35911602209945
  historical:           5.976857333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0187877/"
    handle:    "nm0187877"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.cringely.com/"
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    title: "روبيرت اكس. كرينجيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely"
    title: "Robert X. Cringely"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely"
    title: "Robert X. Cringely"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump