Boing Boing cranking out even more video
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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…
"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]
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 …
"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.…
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…
WSJ Clips Boing Boing Staff
The Bart Nagel photo above depicts the big throbbing brains of uberblog Boing Boing, namely, from left to right, Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, John Battelle, Cory Doctorow, and Xeni Jardin. In a doofy "New-Media Power List" in the Wall Street Journal, the photo is charmingly cropped to include the slinky hotness…
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…
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.
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.
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 Ken Courtney challenge, Pt. 2
Several weeks ago, BoingBoing blogger Xeni Jardin issued a challenge to Brooklyn fashion entrepreneur Ken Courtney (of "I fucked Gisele" t-shirt fame.) She wanted an "I fucked John Ashcroft" t-shirt. Ken writes in, "the owner of RAGS A GO GO on 14th street is the proud new owner of an I FUCKED JOHN ASHCROFT tee." His…
The Ken Courtney challenge
Xeni Jardin has a challenge for Brooklyn fashion entrepreneur Ken Courtney (of "I fucked Gisele" t-shirt fame.) She wants an "I fucked John Ashcroft" shirt.
An open LazyCouture dare for Ken Courtney [BoingBoing]
Ken Courtney [Ju$t Another Rich Kid]
