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Grats (Score:1)
The great thing about Jennicam in a way is the time difference, I'm in the UK, so I get to see Jenni in bed for most of the day
*puurrr*
Re:WTF??? (Score:1)
internet culture, and therefore of geek-interest,
then perhaps you really don't belong here.
JenniCam automatic downloader (Score:1)
* Jennicam fetcher. Requires curl. Known to compile and run under that
* *evil* operating system. Grabs latest pic every
* 15 minutes and writes HTML file with all pictures
*/
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <process.h>
#include <time.h>
int fetchPic( char *fname );
int main( void )
{
time_t t,t2;
struct tm *tm;
static char fname[256];
while( TRUE )
{
t = time( NULL );
tm = localtime( &t );
wsprintf( fname, "jennicam-%04d%02d%02d%02d%02d.jpg",
tm->tm_year+1900, tm->tm_mon+1, tm->tm_mday, tm->tm_hour,
tm->tm_min );
fetchPic( fname );
writeHtml( fname, t );
t += ( 15 * 60 );
t2 = time( NULL );
tm = localtime( &t );
printf( "Sleeping until %02d:%02d:%02d...\n\n", tm->tm_hour,
tm->tm_min, tm->tm_sec );
if ( t > t2 )
SleepEx( ( t - t2 ) * 1000, FALSE );
}
return 0;
}
int fetchPic( char *fname )
{
char buf[256];
printf( "Executing curl: %s\n", fname );
spawnl( P_WAIT, "curl", "curl", "-o", fname, "http://www.jennicam.org/guests/cam.jpg", NULL );
printf( "curl finished...\n" );
return 0;
}
int writeHtml( char *fname, time_t t )
{
FILE *fp;
char buf[256];
long int currPos;
BOOL done = FALSE;
char insline[] = "<!-- next line -->";
fp = fopen( "jennicam.html", "r+t" );
if ( fp == NULL )
{
fp = fopen( "jennicam.html", "wt" );
if ( fp == NULL )
return 0;
fprintf( fp, "<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n<TITLE>JenniCam Captured Pics</TITLE>\n" );
fprintf( fp, "</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n" );
}
else
{
while( !feof( fp ) && !done )
{
currPos = ftell( fp );
fgets( buf, 256, fp );
if ( !strncmp( insline, buf, lstrlen(insline) ) )
{
fseek( fp, currPos, SEEK_SET );
done = TRUE;
}
}
if ( !done )
{
printf( "did not find insert line...
return 0;
}
}
strcpy( buf, ctime( &t ) );
buf[lstrlen(buf)-1] = '\0';
fprintf( fp, " Picture captured at: %s<br>\n", buf );
fprintf( fp, " <img src=\"%s\"><br><br><hr><br>\n", fname );
fprintf( fp, "%s\n", insline );
fprintf( fp, "</BODY>\n</HTML>\n" );
fclose( fp );
return 0;
}
Re:JenniCam - what's in it for me. (Score:1)
yeah that's right she hacks on her PCs. just the other day I looked at jennicam and she was rebuilding her computer's linux kernel. I also heard her skills were integral to the effort to port NetBSD to the StrongARM processor.
I never understood the whole concept (Score:2)
The whole JenniCam thing is pretty sick. I can understand if you watch to see if she gets naked, but you might as well just go out and rent a porn tape because the picture quality is much better. The losers who say they don't watch JenniCam for the sex are either liars, or they are those pathetic people who are so lacking in self-esteem that they have to lurk around people to feel some sense of self-worth; you know, potential stalkers.
Re:Well, good for her. (Score:2)
Cock Tease cams (Score:4)
Let's face it, an attractive woman who sits around the house all day for a for-pay webcam is a quick profit. She is profiting off of horny lonely men, and will not give out any refunds(a drunk friend of mine signed up for jennicam, and refused to give him a refund).
i predict these webcams will stay popular until one evening a crazed stalker enters the home and rapes/kills her for EVERYONE(including the guest cam) to see. The media will get wind of it(since all men on the internet are creepy in the media's eyes), and all of these cams will thank god shut down overnight.
ways to waste $15.00 (Score:2)
I think I made my point, $15 is pretty much nothing unless you're a starving college student, and even then, it's just two cases of horridly cheap beer, or one mag of really bad vodka.
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Ewww . . . (Score:1)
I mean .
She's NOT ALL THAT . . . I've brushed off women 10 times cutier and finer than that !
Come on . . PLEASE don't tell me you think she's hott. . . CRUSH or NOT !
huh? (Score:1)
And the score was 3. How does that work?
Check Out an Original LINUX Cam (Score:2)
I started one of the first Linux cams way back when the Connectix first came out. It's still up today, years later. Instructions on how to do it, etc.
Check it out. [eunuchs.org]
Re:Not JenniCam(quite humurous): (Score:1)
Oh very brave moderating me down. (Score:1)
Slashdot has always been about quirk (Score:1)
www.anonymizer.com is for you! (Score:1)
Firewall blocking is a waste of time, imho.
Zipwow
How dose she do it ? (Score:1)
Jenny on the other hand is on display 24/7 for the whole world. You can watch her eat sleep hack or just plain live. I don't think I could handle the pressure. Then again, maybe I am just not as pretty as Jenny. Not that she is particularly hot or anything. In fact the only thing unusual about her is that you get to see how she lives.
What a difference the cam makes.
A cow ? I woldn't know. (Score:1)
I can however recognise a few that I consider very hot. The girl from "Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human" is hot. Trinity is hot. Anything below 1st rate hot, I just don't categorise.
Hear, hear... (Score:1)
JenniCam is more about intimacy than sex. In many places you can go to see a woman get naked; there are plenty of porn sites which fill that demand. What Jenni does is let the viewer into her life, in honest, intimate detail; and that her life is just a normal life, not the exploits of a porn star or anysuch.
(Of course, that she's pretty cute also helps her traffic, no doubt. Though I doubt that much of the traffic is from the dirty-raincoat brigade, who wouldn't waste their time watching a fully clothed woman typing or folding her laundry or whatever when there are actual porn sites for them to visit.)
Re:1st cyberstar (Score:2)
Re:Maybe A Little Background Would Help? (Score:2)
Re:1st cyberstar (Score:2)
Re:you gets what you asks for (Score:1)
Although, the moderation system will assure that only the most interesting, informative, insightful, and funny obscene garbage and spam will float to the top of the heap. :-)
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"Big Brother" (Score:1)
But it's being licensed accross Europe.
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Yeah, sure (Score:1)
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1st cyberstar (Score:5)
It showed that you could be a mere student and get worldwide famous, a dedicate followership, even alt.fans.jennicam [alt.fans.jennicam] and only by some pieces of networked hardware.
It couldn't happen before the net.
Besides, it's the only webcam available as a Slashbox.
(What about some statistics about Slashboxes people choose?)
But yes, 4th anniversary is not that exciting.
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JenniCam IPO (Score:2)
So when is the JeniCam IPO? As one of the few web sites that actually make money it is past due.
Re:And it celebrates its anniversary by... (Score:1)
Ghasp!!! I jumped on the link as I thought you wrote going down.
Nevermind ...
Feeling old. (Score:2)
Back in the day (Score:1)
The point is this woman is anything but some money-grubbing whatever. She is a clever early-adopter who figured out a way to let her hobby pay for itself and then some.
Re:You know that you are bored when... (Score:1)
Re:Not geek news, what?? (Score:1)
Re:You know that you are bored when... (Score:1)
Re:You know that you are bored when... (Score:1)
Re:You know that you are bored when... (Score:1)
Unless you're in a running battle with a sig nazi
Jennicam Activity Meter (Score:2)
It was a silly use of image analysis to figure out just what was going on, I never quite got round to implementing an automatic Jenni-Alert for users.
Still this whole automatic download/image analysis did one thing original.... I remember SGI claiming a patent for a random numbver generator based on a camera pointed at a Lava Lamp.... well I used the jenni images for random number generation and occasionally - this featured a lava lamp.
So... anyone wanting to challenge this patent can talk to me for 'prior art'
Interesting (Score:2)
I find it amusing that the number times I run into mentions of her is about as often as she shows up on
Cheers,
Ben
Re:A little self-indulgent nostalgia (Score:2)
I remember her from the early days of the Web, when everyone was trying to figure out how to use this new medium. Lots of the ideas were clearly crap, but there were a few that got lost in the corporate rush into the 'Net.
Jenni came up with a simple & obvious idea (which Bezos & Co. would have patented), which in the spirit of the time was more cinema verite than voyeurism. It was a peek into someone else's world -- which was what the Internet was all about then. Yes, she was doing it in part for the sexual turn-on, but we are all sexual creatures -- at least in part.
Now instead of people talking to each other & learning about each other, the trendy thing to do with the Internet is to make money -- in any new way one can think of. Maybe the posters who think she runs a pay-for-a-peek site are right in a way: that's all anyone expect you to do with a web cam anymore.
A little innocence has been lost.
Geoff
Re:"Big Brother" (Score:1)
But it's being licensed accross Europe.
I am not sure what you mean, but if you mean 'why bring it out all over Europe if it ain't popular', the answer is it was a huge hit in the Netherlands, the first country to show it.
Re:Lies,lies,lies (Score:2)
I respect Jenni as a (probably) intelligent human being who made something of her life and had an impact. But I DON'T respect Jennicam, nor the bigger picture that it stands for, which is to use other people's dull lives as entertainment. Not for moral reasons, she's not "selling herself" anymore than a TV actor is, anyway. My opinion of Jennicam is more or less the same as my opinion of soap operas on TV. Pure meaningless time-filling dumb entertainment. Which is fine as a guilty pleasure if you take it like that, but in terms of "how worthwhile it is for you", it's really very near the bottom of it all.
Re:Lies,lies,lies (Score:2)
1986 (Score:2)
In this show you can watch a couple of people who are isolated in a house (at their own will) and every week one of them is elected to leave. The last one gets o lot of money. As this show came up I was somehow shocked. Ok, I know there are enough idiots who want to be in tv at any price, but think of the consequences. It supports the tollerance of being watched. Things like this
risk our privacey on a long term basis.
Privacy issues (Score:4)
Warning: Flamebait material ahead.
I am, as usual, stunned at Slashdot. These are the people who are privacy freaks, I mean a lot of people here are all for encrypting every little byte of data on their drives. The sheer number of venomous comments directed at ``Big Brother,'' the CIA, the NSA, the DIA, Congress, corporations, or whatever else Jon Katz decided ``threatens geekdom'' leaves me amazed.
But a lot of people are huge fans of JenniCam! Seems like a huge privacy violation. Granted she's doing it voluntarily, but still---we never want anyone spying on out private lives, no sir, absolutely not! But spying on other people's lives? Hehe. Sounds like fun, to all the voyerism fetishists in this audience. Everyone else's privacy can go to hell.
Re:Can you say LOSER?! (Score:2)
But read my original message a bit closely, and you'll realize that I echo your thoughts to a large extent - and that's why I quit viewing the JenniCam entirely.
D
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Re:A little self-indulgent nostalgia (Score:2)
After having run the archive for years (albiet not having updated it in well over a year), I was contacted by someone proporting to be her. The message was chilly-cold corporate: You no longer have permission to use those pictures, take them down or we sue.
I thought it was much unlike the Jen I knew, but this was confirmed by others. As I said on the page I created immediately after I received the request: "I change, Jen changes, we all change. Allow me to shed a tear".
Note that I never made one thin dime from my archive, although at the time I was asked to take it down I was considering using it as a traffic source for some of my other projects.
D
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A little self-indulgent nostalgia (Score:5)
And then she created the JenniCam. I well remember that dramatic moment, her always loveable enthusiasm: "I got a cam for my birthday!* And you do know what I'm going to do with it, don't you?"
I didn't. But I soon found out. At first it was something special for her favourite fans. Then word spread. I didn't like it because I knew my server couldn't handle the hits. So she got another server, had someone design her JENNICAM format, and off she ran. I liked the personal feeling of her old pages more than the almost corporate look she has now, but that's just me.
At first, I loved the cam just as I adored its object. I lovingly collected the best images into an archive that was probably the most popular thing I've ever done on the Internet.
But then she told me she could never, ever love me - and I told myself "You know, watching this thing is just twisting the knife in the wound. It hurts like crazy and doesn't get me anywhere". And so I stopped, cold turkey. From watching the thing in every spare moment I could get, I basically stopped. For a while I maintained the archive because my fellow fans loved it so much, but that fell by the wayside.
The JenniCam was not the first webcam, but it was the first webcam to feature a girl's life. It spawned thousands of imitators, none of which had quite the "real" spirit of the original. Curiously, sometimes the simplest ideas are the hardest to think of - and the most apparently obvious once they're created. I can tell you through numerous email and phone conversations with her that she is a highly creative and intelligent woman.
Incidentally, her BDSM pages, which were erotically charged creations, were taken down by her when she received one too many insulting comments. And she stopped doing her incredibly creative "shows" when she got death threats if she didn't continue. I consider this to be the depressing side of creative expression on the Internet.
Sadly, we've drifted apart over the years, but I still remember her fondly and wish her luck, wherever she is and whatever she does.
D
(*) I don't remember if it was birthday or christmas or whatever -- but it was a gift from her parents.
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Re:Cock Tease cams (Score:1)
...Except according to her and her journal, she's not making a lot of profit. She's commented many times that if more people actually signed up as members, she'd have the money to do some really cool stuff. I remember her discussing the move from 30-min refresh/2-min-for-members to 15 and 1, trying to see if the increase in bandwidth usage would break her or not.
Most of her hardware (including her laptop) is actually donated to her by fans. As for her bed selling on eBay for $2800? Well, she said she paid over $3000 for it, so hawking her stuff hasn't been too lucrative either.
She is profiting off of horny lonely men, and will not give out any refunds(a drunk friend of mine signed up for jennicam, and refused to give him a refund).
Funny, I'm not lonely -- I proposed to my fiancee back in November, yet I still resubscribed to Jenni last month. Trust me, if I'm horny, I don't need to go to a website to get my rocks off.
Besides, in the last year, I've actually seen her having sex maybe 4 times, 5 times tops. That's a piss-poor average for a "porn site".
i predict these webcams will stay popular until one evening a crazed stalker enters the home and rapes/kills her for EVERYONE (including the guest cam) to see.
Fortunately, Jenni seems to have enough sense to take reasonable precautions to protect herself.
Jay (=
Anybody want to see a CmdrTaco cam? (Score:3)
Seriously, once you take out the fact that Jenni happens to be a pretty young lady (who sometimes gets naked) and replace it with a guy, the concept looses some of it's charm (OK, maybe not for the geek girls out there).
Re:JenniCam - what's in it for me. (Score:1)
JenniCam - what's in it for me. (Score:5)
Kudos to CT for seeing JenniCam as worthy of a Slashdot article.
I've seen posts here, mostly commenting how JenniCam is about Jenni 'doing' her boyfriend. Grow up guys. Read the journals and get a clue.
/Disclaimer: I am NOT a JenniCam subscriber. I just pop in now and again out of curiosity.
Some time ago, Jennifer went through a messy situation with her folks. At that same time, I had a very similar thing happen in my family. I'm a grown adult, but it still shakes you to the core to see your parents at each other's throats. Reading about Jenni's experiences, having a glimpse inside her feelings - which she bravely puts on display - helped me realize, confront and resolve my own issues. Jenni, thanks.
That was a rather singular event, but it made me a fan of Jenni's courage. She's forced me to consider the fact that I'm neither special nor typical - just like her. So she takes her boyfriend to bed on the Internet. So what? She also does yoga, pets her cats, hacks on her PCs, watches South Park...
She's one of us, whatever US means. She just doesn't hide any aspect; doesn't consider things dirty or inappropriate. Such restrictions are ours to place on ourselves.
So, Jen, thanks a bunch for exposing your self (and I do mean SELF, not body). It's nice to know another person. Best of luck in CA.
Re:Earlier webcams (Score:2)
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Re:Earlier webcams (Score:2)
And I was strongly affected by the bravery of that little coffee pot in baring its every waking moment to the world.
No duh. Nobody said that Jenni was the first "webcam". There were even peoplecams long before her -- I remember there was some lady programmer who had one at her desk, and people watching THAT one crashed her work server, so she got rid of it. (Men with deskcams didn't seem to have the same problem....) Jenni was the first webcam subject to go online 24/7. There still aren't many
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Re:Maybe A Little Background Would Help? (Score:2)
The first lifecam. Don't make this into something it's not, and the people who are flaming back with "fishcam" and "coffeecam" are also missing the unique aspects of Ms. Ringley's innovation.
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Re:Not geek news, what?? (Score:1)
But in any case, the coffee pot isn't autoreloading, which is really one of the functions required for a "webcam", and something Jenni has had the entire time. (I rememver even CNET's original studio cam, which came after they ran a story on her, had an autoreloader and ran on NS 2.0)
-Julius X
Not geek news, what?? (Score:5)
Honestly, I agree with him, that Jennicam was the first(if not the first, than one of the first) sites on the internet that showed just to what degree someone could go on a website.
Jennicam is one of those sites that really shows why the internet is such a stronger medium than we've ever had available before, because one can expose themselves to the entire public, but at the same time, be completely hidden as well.
I, for one, admire Jenni, and think that she, if nothing else, deserves a little recognition on
(This isn't just pr0n here guys, take some time to actually read the site)
-Julius X
Being down: A haiku (Score:1)
Who taught her web-admin stuff,
Cmdr Taco?
Re:Bit more information (Score:2)
Big deal. She bought it two years ago for $3100.
Re:How is this news? (Score:2)
Four years of voyeurism. Damn.
Re:It is pr0n. (Score:2)
This is flawed logic, and highly circular. People who defend porn and view porn, don't go around saying that it's not porn. I view JenniCam, and I view porn, but I don't think that JenniCam is porn any more than life in and of itself is pron. The voyeurism slant doesn't work either, because she's openly letting you into her life.
Also, it's not a 'show' because she is, as much as possible, not changing her normal lifestyle to appease an audience.
Obviously Caimlas doesn't watch Jennicam, because he/she doesn't like porn, and has somehow decided that it is porn, but making judgements on it, and the truthfulness of the people who participate in it in that context, is stupid.
Kevin Fox
Re:Not geek news, what?? (Score:2)
Re:JenniCam automatic downloader (Score:1)
$output = qx( "wget --http-user=username --http-passwd=passwd http://www.jennicam.org/~jenni/livecam/cam.jpg");
($MINUTE, $HOUR, $DAY, $MONTH, $YEAR) = (localtime)[1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
$MONTH = $MONTH +1;
$YEAR = $YEAR + 1900;
if ( $MONTH < 10 ) {$MONTH = "0" . $MONTH};
if ( $DAY < 10 ) {$DAY = "0" . $DAY};
if ( $HOUR < 10 ) {$HOUR = "0" . $HOUR};
if ( $MINUTE < 10 ) {$MINUTE = "0" . $MINUTE};
$TIME = $YEAR . "-" . $MONTH . "-" . $DAY . "-" . $HOUR . $MINUTE;
if ($HOUR < 6) {$SEG = "0-Midnight\-to\-6AM"};
if (($HOUR > 5) && ($HOUR < 12)) {$SEG = "1-6AM\-to\-Noon"};
if (($HOUR > 11) && ($HOUR < 18)) {$SEG = "2-Noon\-to\-6PM"};
if ($HOUR > 17) {$SEG = "3-6PM\-to\-Midnight"};
$DATE = $YEAR . "-" . $MONTH . "-" . $DAY . "-" . $SEG;
$output = qx( "md $DATE");
$output = qx( "copy cam.jpg $DATE\\Jenni-$TIME.jpg");
$output = qx( "del cam.jpg ");
sleep(59);
I also wrote some simple perl to create index pages for it, but you can probably do that on your own.
Re:Privacy issues (Score:2)
Well, then it's *not* a privacy violation, is it? And if it's not a privacy violation, then what exactly are the 'privacy issues' of which you speak?
see for yourself (Score:1)
Getting down (Score:1)
Re:It is pr0n. (Score:2)
Re:1st cyberstar (Score:1)
nuff said
Re:Cock Tease cams (Score:2)
Actually, drunk men used to end up enlisted in the Army. I'd just take the $15, write it off, and remember that far worse things can happen...
Re:1986 (Score:1)
[moderators: If you don't get it, don't moderate]
correct URL (Score:1)
Previously you posted www.jennicam.com !
which is pr0n.
Thanks (Score:2)
-russ
I only watch it for the stories (Score:4)
-russ
Re:It is pr0n. (Score:2)
People that defend pornography generally view pornography. At least, that's what I've seen.
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CAIMLAS
Re:Cock Tease cams (Score:3)
No refund? Of what, $15.00 for a year of one-minute peeks instead of once every 15? That's something to get upset about?! :)
Drunk men waste far more than $15.00 just ordering drinks. Ever been sitting at a bar and go to pay for that one last drink and sit there intently trying to count those one dollar bills in your pocket, hoping not to get it wrong, then just say "fuck it" and pile the entire mess on the table and ask the bartender to keep em coming until you run out? Just losing $15.00 on a binge should be considered a fortunate fate!
so what (Score:2)
Re:Earlier webcams (Score:2)
A close relative (but much younger) is AT&T Laboratories Cambridge [att.com]'s Smart Beverage Dispenser [att.com]. It, however, does not yet conform to rfc2324, Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) [nottingham.ac.uk], and rfc2325, Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2 [nottingham.ac.uk], "is not sufficiently flexible to represent the advanced multiple beverage dispenser". But, "Development of a revised MIB supporting multiple dynamic beverage options is under way". Hooray!
Re:I never understood the whole concept (Score:2)
Jennicam let's us all be Jimmy Stuart in Rear Window, in that movie, the disturbing thing wasn't just the murder, it was Jimmy Stuart in his wheelchair watching all the other people's lives and watching them. Watching the sad parts of their lives and the happy ones with a coldly judgemental voyeurs eyes...
Of course, if you want judgemental voyeurs, looks like Slashdot is the place to get them! ^_^
Funny how popular it got ... (Score:2)
Have you seen the screen captures? Yikes! It's a wonder that the Christian Coalition hasn't sprung on this yet!
Re:Coincidentally... (Score:2)
Not JenniCam(quite humurous): (Score:3)
AMEN!
Jenni & Geeks In Space (Score:2)
I'm not sure what is sadder, that I would think Jenni would actually be on Geeks In Space, or that I'm disappointed every time I visit that she's not.
Re:How dose she do it ? (Score:2)
Re:Cock Tease cams (Score:2)
Don't get mad get even. Have your druken freind do the same thing the Cookie lady did and publish the password right here on
Fish cam (Score:2)
And now for something completely different...another fish cam [oscarfish.com]
Re:Logging Jenni (Score:2)
But since it is possible, I thought I would point out to everyone else how unlikely it would be for her to read my messsage.
Re:You know that you are bored when... (Score:2)
Fear the day when the troll league starts spamming with *replies* instead of original posts. I will check every damned "Re: Grits" post until I die from starvation...
Re:You know that you are bored when... (Score:2)
Actually some of the better discussions I've had here has been on "dead" topics.
April 14 (Score:2)
The day the Titanic sunk.
The day I was born.
The day JenniCam was born.
Obviously, history has a way of evening things out.
Maybe A Little Background Would Help? (Score:5)
Anyway, her site was the first webcam site, so this makes her a pioneer of something that's now a common aspect of Net culture. I would call that geek news.
Lies,lies,lies (Score:2)
Quite the gift... (Score:2)
I think the Slash effect broke it (Score:3)
Taco, it might just be possible that by trying to celebrate her anniversary, and Slash-ing her URL, you broke her.
Re:Cock Tease cams (Score:4)
It's easy (Score:2)
At least Jenni's real, The Real World is a boring, painful to watch experience. It's a whole bunch of whiney posers that MTV selected because they knew that they wouldn't get along. Seem's like Jenni is at least trying to make an effort to add a personalized, friendly face to the net. Well, what do ya say?
Re:Anybody want to see a CmdrTaco cam? (Score:2)
Pretty young lady? WTF!
Have you ever seen a picture of her?!!?!
Earlier webcams (Score:3)
Well, good for her. (Score:2)
Mind you I can see why some people would then think that this is truly news for nerds.
This IS News (Score:2)
*real* meaning an everyday girl........(remember, it's not EVERYDAY you see a porn star)
Bit more information (Score:2)
Since I submitted this article, I may as well fill everybody in
I think it 'nerd news' because not only was Jennicam one of the first (not the first - I agree that it was probably the Cambridge coffe pot), but her site is one of the busiest (and this is the first time I've known it to be down and, no, it was down before the story was posted).She also helped raise the media profile of the web and internet - I've lost track of the number of news articles about her and her site
Okay, her site isn't free (I'd hate to think how much she is paying per month in bandwidth charges), and she doesn't 'get her kit off' much - but that isn't the point of the site. It is to show an insight into her life and everything.
She has also recently sold her bed on Ebay [ebay.com] for $2,760!
Hope that answers all your wondering...Richy C. [beebware.com]
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So far (Score:2)
Re:Huh? (Score:3)
Jenni's been on Letterman. Since the media-savvy intelligentsia recongizes Letterman as the metric of who has made it or not, it is now officially you who is behind the times.[1]
And, I'm surprised that nobody has brought up the fact that JenniCam can be had as a Slashbox!!
Herbie J.
[1] Just kidding, of course, although she has been on Letterman. And I don't want to hear any guff about "what is Letterman???" If I can get it here in Finland...
Re:Putting the fun into DysFUNctional (Score:2)
well then let's all help by talking about her then.