Xeni Jardin

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Xeni Jardin
Born August 5, 1972
Richmond, Virginia

Xeni Jardin (IPA: [ʃɛniː dʒɑːrdæn]) (born August 5, 1972)[1][2] is a journalist and weblogger in the United States. She is known for her position as co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing; as a contributor to Wired and Wired News, and as a correspondent for the National Public Radio show Day to Day. She has also worked as a guest technology news commentator for television networks such as CNN, Fox News and ABC.

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[edit] Life and work

Xeni Jardin was born in Richmond, Virginia. Her father, artist Glenn B. Hamm Jr., died in August 1980 of ALS. She left home at age 14, but remained in school in Richmond.[1] Xeniflores is not her given name, but rather a nickname that stuck during her travels through Mexico and Guatemala.[3] For some time after she returned, she used the name Xeniflores Jardin Hamm and now uses the shortened version, Xeni Jardin. Prior to becoming a journalist, she was site editor for travel agency Traveltrust,[4] then Supervisor of Enterprise Web Technology for Latham & Watkins[5] before working at Quaartz, an internet calendaring startup.[6]

Her career as a journalist began in 1999 when she was associated with Jason Calacanis's Silicon Alley Reporter, first as a contributing editor, and later as Vice President of Silicon Alley's parent company, Rising Tide Studios. In 2001 she became a freelance writer for Wired and other magazines, and in 2002 she began contributing to Boing Boing after Mark Frauenfelder met her at a party and invited her to be a co-editor.[1] Jardin has also written op-ed pieces for the New York Times[7] and the Los Angeles Times.[8] She has also been the main source of an article in The Age talking about the cultural relevance of Wikipedia articles,[9] and the source for an The New York Times article discussing Boing Boing's part in the creation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster internet meme.[10]

Jardin is also involved in television and radio work. In 2003, she began contributing the "Xeni Tech" segment for NPR's show Day to Day,[11] and has appeared as a guest on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer to discuss the Washington Post's decision to remove their comments section (a step Boing Boing had also taken).[12] She has also made appearances on CNN, Fox News and ABC World News Tonight.[1] and featured on the BBC Radio 5 show Pods and Blogs discussing her work at Boing Boing.[13]

Her work at Boing Boing has provoked responses. In March 2005, Jesse Andrews created a script for GreaseMonkey that filters out Boing Boing posts by Jardin.[14][15] In March 2006, Matthew N. Sharp created XeniSucks.com, which criticizes and parodies Jardin's posts on Boing Boing. Jardin posted a link to the site on Boing Boing and described it as "a total hoot."[16]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d "Behold the wizard of blogs". Piccalo, Gina (April 10, 2005), Los Angeles Times. Copy at xeni.net.
  2. ^ Piccalo op cit, reports that Jardin's father "died a few weeks after Jardin's 10th birthday." Social Security Death Index gives his death as August 1980, which would put Jardin's birthdate at 1970. The same article stated Jardin was 32 prior to her 2005 birthday, which puts her birthdate at 1972.
  3. ^ Xeniflores is a Guatemalan nickname that means "protector of flowers", and jardin is the French word for "garden."
  4. ^ Hamm, Xeniflóres (1997). Traveltrust.com via Internet Archive
  5. ^ Hamm, Xeni Jardin (July 14, 1999). UKNM: That pesky Euro symbol. via chinwag.com
  6. ^ Kirkpatrick, David and Daniel Roth (January 10, 2005). Why There's No Escaping the Blog. Fortune
  7. ^ Jardin, Xeni (March 9, 2006). Exporting Censorship. New York Times
  8. ^ Jardin, Xeni, (September 25, 2006), You authors are saps to resist Googling, Los Angeles Times.
  9. ^ "Wikipedia Worries", Rob O'Neill, The Age.
  10. ^ But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?", Boxer, Sarah, New York Times.
  11. ^ Jardin, Xeni. Xeni Tech. Day to Day, NPR. Retrieved May 1, 2006.
  12. ^ Lehrer, Jim (January 24, 2006). Post Web Site Silences Public Comments After a Flood of Complaints. NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
  13. ^ BBC Radio 5, Pods and Blogs.
  14. ^ Jardin, Xeni (March 18, 2005). HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing, Boing Boing
  15. ^ Andrews, Jesse (April 28, 2006). de-Xeni (Release 0.0.1). via userscripts.org, retrieved May 1, 2006.
  16. ^ Jardin, Xeni (March 27, 2006). xenisucks.com, at Boing Boing, URL accessed on 17 May 2006

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NAME Jardin, Xeni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Xeniflóres Jardin Hamm
SHORT DESCRIPTION Journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972-08-05
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
DATE OF DEATH
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