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Xeni Jardin (IPA: ) (born August 5 1972 ) is an American weblogger and journalist.

Jardin is co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing, contributor to Wired and Wired News, correspondent for the National Public Radio show Day to Day, and television tech news commentator.

Family and early life

Jardin was born in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother, Monica S. Rumsey, and younger brother, Carl M. Hamm, both still live in Richmond . Her father, artist Glenn B. Hamm Jr., died in August 1980 of ALS. Jardin left home at age 14, but remained in school in Richmond .

Formerly known as Xeniflóres Hamm, and Xeniflóres Jardin Hamm, she currently goes by Xeni Jardin. "Xeniflóres" is a Guatemalan name meaning "protector of plants/flowers", and jardin is the French word for "garden."

Career

Prior to becoming a journalist, she was site editor for travel agency Traveltrust , then Supervisor of Enterprise Web Technology for Latham & Watkins before working at Quaartz, an internet calendaring startup .

From 1999 to 2001 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. In 2002, she began contributing to Boing Boing after Mark Frauenfelder met her at a party and invited her to be a co-editor .

In 2003, she began contributing the "Xeni Tech" segment for NPR's show Day to Day .

2006 saw Jardin's work appearing on the op-ed page of the New York Times . She was also 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 .

Jardin is also currently a partner with Mar Doré in Ambience Doré, a southern California furniture dealer.

Criticism

Jardin and her work have not been without criticism. Her perceived self-promotion, her allegedly irresponsible journalistic practices, her writing style, her choice of subject matter, and her appearance have been cited by her critics.

• In March 2005, Jesse Andrews created a script for GreaseMonkey that filters out Boing Boing posts by Jardin Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page)., noting "every so often her posts are over the top (for work)" .

• In March 2006, Matthew N. Sharp created XeniSucks.com , which criticizes and parodies Jardin's posts on Boing Boing. New York Times columnist Dan Mitchell wrote that XeniSucks.com is a "hate blog" that delivers "nasty, sarcastic invective delivered in spot-on Comic Book Guy tone" . Jardin, however, posted a link to the site on Boing Boing and described it as "a total hoot" .

• In March 2006, The temple of me blog said that Xeni "is no better than a rumor monger" in trying to publicly drag the president of the Smart Filter software company through the mud because of the results of a google search .

References

1. ^ Piccalo, Gina (April 10, 2005). Behold, the wizard of blogs. Los Angeles Times. Piccalo 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.
2. Turko, Jaime (October 1, 2004). Glenn B. Hamm — A Two-Part Retrospective. via Upcast Gallery, retrieved 30 April 2006
3. Hamm, Xeniflóres (1997). Traveltrust.com via Internet Archive
4. Hamm, Xeni Jardin (July 14, 1999). UKNM: That pesky Euro symbol. via chinwag.com
5. Kirkpatrick, David and Daniel Roth (January 10, 2005). Why There's No Escaping the Blog. Fortune
6. Breslin, Susannah. Xeni Jardin. via Suicide Girls
7. Jardin, Xeni. Xeni Tech. Day to Day, NPR. Retrieved May 1, 2006.
8. Jardin, Xeni (March 9, 2006). Exporting Censorship. New York Times
9. Lehrer, Jim (January 24, 2006). Post Web Site Silences Public Comments After a Flood of Complaints. NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
10. Andrews, Jesse (April 28, 2006). de-Xeni (Release 0.0.1). via userscripts.org, retrieved May 1, 2006.
11. Sharp, Matthew N. XeniSucks.com. Retrieved May 1, 2006.
12. Mitchell, Dan (April 1, 2006). Worst. Hate Blog. Ever. "What's Online" column, New York Times
13. Jardin, Xeni (March 27, 2006). xenisucks.com, via Boing Boing
14. "Domoni" (March 10, 2006). The Death Knell of boingboing. templeofme.com, retrieved May 3, 2006

External links

• Xeni.net: Xeni Jardin's home page
• Xeni Tech columns for National Public Radio
• Stories by Xeni Jardin for Wired
• Xeni Jardin profile: Scan of 2005 Los Angeles Times piece
• Xeni Jardin at IMDb

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• 1972 births
• Living people
• American bloggers
• American journalists
• People from Virginia
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