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Xeni Jardin: Bio
Xeni Jardin is a tech culture journalist and co-editor of the collaborative weblog BoingBoing, the Bloggie-award-winning "Directory of Wonderful Things."
She is a Contributing Writer for WIRED Magazine. Her work has appeared online, on-air, and in print, in venues such as WIRED News, National Public Radio (NPR), FINE LIVING Network, Grammy Magazine, DGA (Directors Guild of America) Magazine, WGA (Writers Guild of America) Magazine, LA Weekly, GOTHAM, Daily Candy, Silicon Alley Reporter (now Venture Reporter), Digital Coast Reporter, and other technology, business, and lifestyle publications.
As a technology conference developer, she has produced, created, and hosted events which include the Investment Capital Conference (which, in its eleventh year, is now the longest-running annual VC conference in America), and internal thinktanks for CxOs and senior executives at corporations including Motorola (event link here). Current event projects include Wired Magazine's Nextfest.
Previously, she was Vice President of Rising Tide Studios (RTS), the publishing company behind Silicon Alley Reporter, Digital Coast Reporter, and other tech publications. Xeni served as Senior Writer and oversaw the company's annual conference series, which included The Rising Tide Summit (hosted by Charlie Rose of television's "The Charlie Rose Show" and "60 Minutes II), Silicon Alley 2001, Wireless 2001, The International Network, Internet Healthcare 2001, The Venture Capital Summit, Digital Coast 2000, as well as a series of invite-only CEO gatherings.
Participants and speakers included CEOs, authors, artists, and thought leaders from academia and government, including counterterrorism expert L. Paul Bremer; attorney and Innocence Project founder Barry Scheck; RIM (Blackberry) CEO James Balsillie; musician and Beatnik founder Thomas Dolby Robertson; Broadcast.com founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban; former BMG CEO Strauss Zelnick; ICQ founder Yossi Vardi; former Bertelsmann e-commerce Group CEO Andreas Schmidt; filmmakers Darren Aronofsky, Wayne Wang, and Penelope Spheeris; Oxygen CEO Gerry Laybourne; Esther Dyson; former Terra/Lycos CEO Bob Davis; Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin; LA Lakers star Shaquille O'Neal; analyst Henry Blodget; New.net founder Bill Gross; RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser; nanotechnologist Ralph Merkle; actor Melanie Griffith; and many others.
Before joining RTS, she managed communications and helped launch a technology company with former top executives from Sun, BEA, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and Infoseek/GO Network.
An experienced manager of large-scale, business-critical intranet, extranet and public-facing information networks, she was previously Supervisor of Enterprise Web Technology at Latham & Watkins, one of the world's largest law firms. There she was responsible for designing and implementing web-hosted applications, and the online litigation support projects she directed were cited as industry-leading examples of legal technology.
Online projects include MSNBC combat correspondent Kevin Sites's live-from-Iraq weblog at kevinsites.net, the SARS Art Project, the SENT phonecam art show, and the digital culture event "Live From the Blogosphere."
Xeni travels extensively, and has studied over a dozen languages including Maohi (Tahitian), Quiché and Kakchikel Maya (Guatemala), Nahuatl (an indigenous language of Mexico), Mandarin Chinese, and Yoruba (Nigeria).
Xeni Jardin is based in Los Angeles.
photo: Quetzalkanbalam
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