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Apple Keynote Reimagined by the Twitterati
Anil Dash, Glenn Feischman and Nick Douglas created a parallel, imaginary Apple conference and Xeni Jardin met a very strange CNN producer. Life was surreal for the Twitterati. More » -
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No Cursing at Yahoo Corporate, Except for Carol Bartz
The Twitterati went on vacation: Kevin Rose visited his exclusive happy place; Xeni Jardin was in Gautemala; and an AFP reporter set off for Paris. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by El Matardillo: Since you're reading Twitter so that we don't have to, would you mind terribly reading it to just yourself? 2 Responses | Other threads
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The Twitterati Wear Shorts to a Cage Match
Things that the media's Twitter addicts are savoring: onion rings, Hulk Hogan, and weather warm enough for shorts. Michelle Malkin, Sarah Lacy, Xeni Jardin and others reveal their not-so-hidden desires: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Baroness: Oh, that Xeni Jardin. Part of me is interested by her- she's clearly lovely-looking, with a certain Annie Lennox aesthetic... 1 Responses | Other threads
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The Twitterati Head South, not to Mention Southwest
Can you destroy — or cement — your professional reputation in 140 characters or less? On Twitter, it's easy! Watch and learn from ABC's Jake Tapper, ex-Wonkette Ana Marie Cox, VentureBeat's Eric Eldon and others: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by TRexstasy: I want Ana Marie Cox's job. Apparently all she does is drink and go to parties and occasionally poop... 2 Responses | Other threads
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The Twitterati Are All Over the Place
Are all the Twitterers headed to the SXSW festival, like Digg's Kevin Rose? Actually, no! Here's where Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin, Salon.com edi-bore Joan Walsh, and Politico's Patrick Gavin recorded their time-wasting thoughts: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by swagv: This regular feature has the same "Weee! Look at me, I'm on Twitter!" virtues as all those "Weee! Look at... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Cheating Media Moguls Across the Twittersphere
For the media, Twitter is the new confessional. Xeni Jardin admitted to watching an illicit movie, Peter Kafka overcharged his boss, and Jeff Jarvis admitted to being an all-around fraud. Today's crimes against Twitter: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by abmw: Jardin's tweet is lifted right out of the Classic American novel, "A Confederacy of Dunces", by John Kennedy Toole. 1 Responses | Other threads
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The Twitterati Are Not as Awesome as They Think They Are
Today on Twitter: Media people being pretentious, from Bonnie Fuller to Wired's Chris Anderson and beyond! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Gospel X: re: headline No one who uses Twitter is awesome. No one. "Twit" doesn't even mean anything positive! 7 Responses | Other threads
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Twitterati on Parade
Did you hear Twitter is now bigger than Digg? That's because you can't vote on Obamanaugural headlines by text message. More OMG Barack!!!!!!1!1!! tweets from the media elite: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ian spiegelman: Ug. So sick of these people. Shut up, Kurt--this is the only site that cares about you, and mostly as... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Web 2.0 Summit video panelists make tech reporter's worst-dressed list
An online-video panel at Web 2.0 Summit proved so free of insight that reporter Scott Raynovich took a turn playing Mr. Blackwell instead, savaging all of the panelists' outfits. Only moderator Xeni Jardin got off easy, winning praise for her "peach-colored suit." We would have dinged her for that: Jardin always looks best in intergalactic silver. [Contentinople] -
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Back to our regularly scheduled Xeni Space Pr0n
Save your blog drama for Obama. Boing Boing starship trooper Xeni Jardin posted close-up photos of fun-loving Virgin billionaire Richard Branson's new space tourism plane, Eve, from yesterday's big debut event. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Mouser_UK: it is probaly Otto Lilienthal in that first one. Sheesh who let the special needs kids^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h COBOL programmers comment more » | Other threads
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Boing Boing expands from unpublishing to untweeting
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, the Boing Boing comments moderator who posted Boing Boing's formal response to last month's Violet Blue "unpublishing" flamefest, is a smart lady who, judging from her own comments, doesn't afraid of anything. She invented the practice of removing the vowels from blog comments she deems out of line, to avoid scrubbing them completely from the public record. So I'm surprised to see that Hayden took down one of her own Twitter updates Monday, apparently because Blue linked to it. Teresa, wht th fck?
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By Paul BoutinComment by jsavimbi: Under attack by Gawker Media? Half a dozen posts and twenty comments no constitute an attack? Apparently she's become insensitive... more » | Other threads
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Playboy contest morphs into Dutch auction
At least four of the nine women chosen by Playboy editors for their hottest blogger contest are actively playing to lose. None of them would let us run their emails from Playboy.com's editors, but there's a clear pattern: Playboy emailed blogstars like Xeni Jardin for a chaste headshot photo to go into an article about sexy bloggers. The emails didn't explain that (a) it was a poll, and (b) the point of the poll was to get the winner to pose "topless or nude" — no G-rated shoots — for the magazine's website. Only sex writer Violet Blue seems openly thrilled to be in the running. Here's an idea: Everyone vote for Violet. Spare the rest of us the awkwardness. [UPDATE: TechCrunch has one of the emails.]
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By Paul BoutinComment by Alaska Miller: I think iJustine can last for a long time. more » | Other threads
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Playboy wants top blogger to pose topless
The whole Xeni Jardin / Violet Blue thing continues to backfire on us. A female editor at Playboy.com alerted us to a "Who's the Web's hottest blogger"? contest they thought up after ogling last week's photos of the two cozied-up lady bloggers. The prize? Playboy will offer the winner a "topless or nude" photo shoot for their site. I fact-checked it with them, and let's be clear: Topless, nude, or forget it. The contestants are Jardin and Blue, plus Julie Alexandra, Veronica Belmont, Amanda Congdon, Brigitte Dale, Sarah Lacy, Sarah Austin and Natali Del Conte. I know what you're thinking: Good luck getting the winner to take it off. As a former Playboy reader (many of the articles are good) I wish they'd asked around first. It'd be easy to solicit nine very photogenic girlbloggers eager to claim the prize. Who'll be #1? Right now the obscure-but-well-shot Brigitte Dale is ahead, but I expect Veronica Belmont's Gadgetboy Army to mobilize today and sweep her to a decisive win — and a decisive NO. Sarah Austin sums up her cognitive dissonance: "Not sure how I feel about being in Playboy's popularity contest. Maybe I'd feel better if I was winning?"
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The glamorous way out of a Web drama
What's the classiest finish to an Internet catfight? The shining example will be July 2008's Boing Boing vs. Violet Blue. It wasn't about player-hating and girl-on-girl sex, we'll all say. No no, it was about freedom and blogging and privacy and good versus evil. Now that we've all moved on, the New York Times steps in a week later to clean things up with a G-rated rehash that suggests Violet Blue may be the real winner. What have each of the participants learned? More »
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Comment by TallulahSkankhead: Map seems to have been removed--why link to it here? And, why do I care? more » | Other threads
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Boing Boing's unapologetic eleventh-hour apologia
Boing Boing's readers, hopped up on free-speech rhetoric, continue to find the tech-culture blog's act of unpublishing unspeakable. Hoping to put the Internet's most enduring drama llama this month to bed, the Los Angeles Times rounded up four members of Boing Boing's staff yesterday for a late-night confab. The result is transcribed here and there, but for those about to launch into a three-day weekend, we salute you with only the most wonderful bits, perfect for around-the-barbeque reblogging. It is at once brilliant and brain-numbing in its inconclusiveness. But if the answer to bad speech is more speech, why not answer an act of unpublishing with more nonwords? More »
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Comment by drinkwater: I can't help but ponder what the internet would be shaped like if it was founded in some place like... more » | Other threads
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Boing Boing's relationship with Violet Blue comes full circle
Sex blogger Violet Blue may have tried to ride the Boing Boing coattail express to microfame by airing grievances publicly. But once upon a time she waged the same kind of war on Boing Boing cofounder Xeni Jardin's side against Matthew Neal Sharp, curator of xenisucks.com, and the New York Times. Now, after the bad breakup between the two bloggers became serious business, another gentleman has put a thumb in the third eye of the popular catalog of eclectic ephemera by creating violetbluevioletblue.net — a directory of formerly wonderful things from Boing Boing that featured Blue, deleted by Jardin from the site a year ago. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by raincoaster: @Avery: Seven comments in and it's already time for someone to pull a Godwin's? more » | Other threads
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The Valleywag-Boing Boing sex map
"Did you sleep with Violet Blue? I can't keep track," my editor IM'd me. He's not nosy; he's just trying to stay on top of things. To help him — and you — out, I've dashed off this sex map of l'affaire Boing Boing, including my own involvement. (Why didn't Xeni Jardin just do this in the first place? In retrospect, that seems easier than taking the abuse she's now getting.) Jardin thinks blogging one's personal life is "stupid," but then, I get to report for an operation where my seriously gay editor factchecks the difference between "lesbian" and "girl-on-girl." And if we're fucking the people we're reporting on, we'll tell you. So no, I did not sleep with Violet Blue. Even though she asked. More »
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Comment by lastweeksdate: the map isn't very clear. how to do i get to nick? more » | Other threads
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How Xeni and Violet's Boing Boing affair went sour
What turned culture-jamming tech blog Boing Boing into the kind of censorious monster it normally ridicules? Beyond its initial statement that the reasons are "personal," Boing Boing hasn't elaborated, but all signs point to the foundering of a once-romantic friendship between Boing Boing editor Xeni Jardin and Violet Blue, the sex blogger whose many links from Boing Boing were erased last year. (Full disclosure: Jardin is Valleywag's favorite gendertastic sex-robot space princess from the future, while Violet Blue has contributed to Fleshbot, a porn blog published by Valleywag owner Gawker Media. Blue once approached Valleywag contributor Melissa Gira Grant for sex, but was rebuffed.) In an email to Valleywag, pasted below, Blue continues to profess ignorance of what she did wrong; she also dismisses her entanglement with Jardin as a friendship laced with casual sex. Blue's own photo of the two at Kink.com party, shown here, suggests, in its entangled limbs, that the relationship was more serious than that. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Erin91: I wasn't aware that a practical invisibility potion and/or ray had been invented. Did any of you know that had... more » | Other threads
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Did the Internet's free-speech guardians try to hush up a girl-on-girl love affair?
As new media gets big, it remains small at heart — and not in a good way. Boing Boing, the popular tech-culture blog, has offered a tardy defense of its mass deletion of posts mentioning a sex blogger from its archive, and it amounts to this: Because Boing Boing started as a personal blog, it's entitled to be as petty, as hypocritical, and as inconsistent as a 14-year-old girl with a MySpace page. Never mind the fussing about so-called "censorship" — though one would be sure that, had this happened at another website, we'd be reading all about it at Boing Boing, with its editors in a righteous nerd froth. The excuse that "it's personal" would ring more true if we weren't talking about a media enterprise whose audience exceeds that of Conde Nast's Epicurious.com, or the publicly traded finance site TheStreet.com. While Boing Boing's revenues are unknown, the site formed the cornerstone of Federated Media, an online-advertising startup which has already made founder John Battelle — Boing Boing's "band manager" — a multimillionaire. Oh, and did we mention that Violet Blue, the sex blogger in question (and contributor to Gawker Media's Fleshbot), shown here at right, used to be the lover of Boing Boing editor Xeni Jardin, left? More » -
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Xeni Jardin invades my brain
I should be making some witty remark about Boing Boing blogger Xeni Jardin's visit to the workshops of Your Psycho Girlfriend, makers of offbeat reclaimed-materials couture and taxidermy-infused tech. But really, the whole time I watched this clip, I kept thinking, "Xeni Jardin is a gay trangender alien visitor from the future. And I for one welcome our possum-keyboard-bearing overlords."
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By Owen ThomasComment by queensissy: Jenny's got 100% female hips and ass (brava to that, by the way); otherwise I'd say her real name is... more » | Other threads
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Xeni Jardin cloning experiment results in deep-fried cell phones
Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin deep-fries cell phones. There's also a fade transition three and a half minutes into the video which features two split-screen Xenis. I thought for a moment Jardin had been successfully cloned.
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By Owen ThomasComment by pud: i hate quirky san francisco shit. yes i live here. more » | Other threads
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Boing Boing cranking out even more video
Sorry Xeni, but I snarfed your embed code from IM. Boing Boing TV has added a new series of off-the-cuff vlogs to their slicker-production daily videos. In the first episode due Friday morning, Joel Johnson (blogosphere oldster — remember Gizmodo? Wired? Yeah, old) plays with a toy copter and a retro-chic radio. Full press-releasey post from Xeni after the jump. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by meanguy: "imagine Cory wandering around in Tokyo with a handheld camera pointing out cool stuff he's seeing that day" wow, it's like... more » | Other threads
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Xeni Jardin gets freaky with a nasty Santa
The ironic stance, the knowing wink, the deadpan tone: They've all become cliche in Web-culture documentaries. Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin explodes the genre by taking footage of rampaging Santas and turning it into a music video. My prediction: Xeni's confession, "I'm really freaked out," will become a ringtone before the end of the year.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Carlos: I thought xeni jardin was like a hot chick video blogger. So much for internetfamous more » | Other threads
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JetBlue puts crappy, restricted Wi-Fi on some planes
JetBlue is starting to enable its planes with Wi=Fi. Come Tuesday, you'll be able to check your email and IM while in the air — if you use Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger or a Wi-Fi-enabled Blackberry. No iPhone? No Gmail? Count me underwhelmed. Just let me use any Wi-Fi device to surf the Web and check email and I'll be happy. Until then, why bother with this nonsense? At least it's free, and a beta. I'm holding out for a 1.0 — or Virgin's promised Wi-Fi, with added Xeni Jardin. (Photo by AP/Rick Maiman) -
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Simpsons director sets tuba on fire
In the Nevada desert, the extreme-geek subcultures of Silicon Valley and Hollywood meet, breed, and raise mutant offspring. That's the only explanation I can come up for why Xeni Jardin is interviewing Simpsons director David Silverman about his sideline of playing a flaming tuba. Best part, of course, is when he plays the Simpsons theme as flames spurt out of the instrument.
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By Owen ThomasComment by shutupstellaismyshit.com: "very comfortable for burning in" ? LOL uhhhh ok.... :) and hearing him play the simpsons theme was almost as... more » | Other threads
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Paul Allen believes in aliens
Three minutes into an interview with Paul Allen on Boing Boing TV, Xeni Jardin asks the ultrarich Microsoft cofounder if he believes in little green men. And, well, he doesn't exactly say yes, but let's put it this way: You don't spend $50 million on an array of telescopes in the desert if you don't think there's a good chance. And what does Allen get for his millions? If it turns out there are, as the say, signs of intelligent life in the universe, he gets the first phone call. Take that, Bill Gates! You may be richer than your old college buddy, but he gets to hear about aliens first.
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By Owen ThomasComment by MINI Driver: So I'd heard that this array had picked up the signal from an old Russian sun probe mission, that was... more » | Other threads
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"2007 is not 1988 ... thanks to new technologies, people throughout Burma know about the junta's assaults." — U.S. First Lady Laura Bush hogs in on Xeni Jardin's third-world smartmob beat in a Wall Street Journal guest column. [WSJ] -
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Xeni Jardin, Kevin Rose, and friends get in bed with Virgin
After wooing San Francisco at its hub airport, Virgin America has enlisted seven Internet heroes to pitch the new airline. Seen here are Xeni Jardin, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and Mark Frauenfelder of Boing Boing; Peter Rojas of Engadget; and Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose of Diggnation. You can see them in these Virgin cartoon spots, which are like C-minus episodes of Sealab 2021.
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By Nick DouglasComment by Magister: "Virgin America's Virgin Americans"? And, if you recognize the cartoon depictions of these bloggers, you really should consider stepping away from... more » | Other threads
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"Xeni Jardin ... serves as a muse and screen-saver for fanboys everywhere." So claims New York Times media writer David Carr today, in a favorable take on the glam-o-tronic blonde's new role as anchor of Boing Boing TV. We love her, but if anyone has ever actually seen a fucking Xeni Jardin screensaver, let us know. As for your "serves as a muse" metaphor, Mr. Carr, save it for Penthouse.
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By Paul BoutinComment by joaquin: Plenty of non-computery types say "screen-saver" when they mean "wallpaper". more » | Other threads
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Boing Boing to launch daily Internet-TV show
Is any blogger still satisfied with merely blogging? The quirky alternative website Boing Boing, which claims 7.5 million monthly viewers, will debut a daily online video show Wednesday. After closet negotiations with national networks, the Boing Boingers decided to go it alone and own the show themselves. But this is no basement operation. BBtv's Hollywood agent is George Ruiz at clout-wielding ICM, who also handles Christopher Walken, Jennifer Connelly and Richard Dreyfus. Robolicious blogger Xeni Jardin (left), whose TV credits include appearances on Dennis Miller and most of the big nightly newsies, will host. She'll coanchor with fellow BB editor Mark Frauenfelder, best known for his TV appearance in an Apple ad. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by GinaMuchava: Baron's failure is all Jeff Pulver's fault. more » | Other threads
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Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin defends her YouTube Terms of Use story
Boing Boing blogger Xeni Jardin responded to the recent Valleywag post wrapping up a disagreement between YouTube and several writers upset by its Terms of Use. While Valleywag thinks agreement is a lost cause until certain people tone down the rhetoric, in the interest of fairness, here's Xeni's e-mailed response and my reply. For the record, Xeni is awesome, and so is her work. More » -
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Xenii vs. Xeni
Continuing "Keeping straight with the Joneses" day, tech writers Cyrus Farivar and Paul Boutin compare L.A.'s Xenii ("ex-ee-knee"), the exclusive club patronized by Google's Sergey Brin, to L.A.'s Xeni ("SHEH-nee"), the jet-setting journalist pictured at left, now reporting for NPR, Wired Magazine, and Boing Boing. More » -
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Geeking out: ETech 2006, Wednesday
Everyone's famous on the Internet! And the webstars really shine in Scott Beale's Wednesday photos from O'Reilly ETech 2006. In this edition, Ted Rheingold of Dogster, 3/4 of the Boing Boing crew, and an episode of escalating violence. More » -
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Sites being censored by adult baby fetishist
Metroblogging cofounder Sean Bonner outs a filtering director at Secure Computing as an adult baby fetishist. Tomo Foote-Lennox, who wrote to Boing Boing blogger Xeni Jardin that he wants to "protect the kids" from the evil nakedness on the Internets, is either a diaper-loving fetishist socialite or the victim of the worst naming coincidence ever. More »
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