I’ve been reading Wired Magazine for over 10 years, and Boing Boing for the last few. So it makes sense that I’m a fan of Xeni Jardin’s work. She’s heavily involved in both. When I asked if she’d be so kind as to be on the show, she enthusiastically agreed, and while storms lashed LA (again), Xeni suggested that people were hunkered down with their soy milk and manicurists, and I interviewed her while the mercury soared to 42 degree C (107 degrees Fahrenheit) in Perth.

Thanks for the chat Xeni, it was great fun!

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The Gadget Show #6 - 29th March 2005 (43min 43sec): MP3 - 15.1MB

TIME
00:00 Network Intro

01:05 Welcome and introduction to Xeni Jardin

02:00 Why Xeni gets all the adult related posts on Boing Boing, or at least the label

04:12 The Sydney Morning Herald Article, Boing - best of the blogs (requires registration)

07:50 How Xeni got into tech journalism and Boing Boing

10:16 Contributing Writer for Wired Magazine and how they pay for Boing Boing, and Technology Culture Corespondent for NPR’s Day to Day

13:35 Is writing for Wired as fun as I think?

15:40 Digital Cinema and the Wired article “The Cuban Revolution”

22:20 Freedom to innovate, create, invent and hack

27:30 Xeni at ETech, and the first ever complete meeting of the Boingers

29:43 Xeni’s favourite presentation at Etech, Von Neumann’s Universe by George Dyson (Cory’s notes)

33:32 Xeni’s trip to Burning Man

34:20 Cory’s talk at Etech, All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites and the future of the internet

38:54 Xeni’s favourite gadget, the Treo 650, and Korea’s mobile network

41:54 Thanks to Xeni for being on the show, and pumping up Richard’s ego about the show ;)

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