#5.5 Jennicam Revisited

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In 1996, 19-year-old Jennifer Ringley started the Jennicam, a 24-hour online chronicle of her life. Seven years later, she disappeared entirely from the internet. But why? Also, PJ and Alex discuss how even in the past five months, the landscape of "lifecasting" has changed. And PJ puts Alex on Meerkat and he gets very uncomfortable. Don't forget! Tomorrow is Email Debt Forgiveness Day! Leave us a voicemail at (917) 475-6668 about your most anxiety inducing unanswered email. We will post a special mini-episode that is Email Debt Forgiveness Day-themed this weekend. Our Sponsors: http://www.framebridge.com (offer code 'reply') http://www.stamps.com (offer code 'reply') http://www.mailchimp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So the thing about doing a podcast about the internet is that the internet is changing all
0:07.6	the time.
0:08.6	It is a even right now.
0:09.8	Somebody just wrote a new web page.
0:13.9	What's it about?
0:15.4	Sports.
0:16.4	Oh, that is eminently believable.
0:19.8	Also like the technologies behind the internet and the way people use the internet is changing
0:23.4	all the time.
0:24.4	It's very fascinating.
0:25.4	We do a podcast about it.
0:26.4	This story back in December about Jenny Ringley.
0:32.1	And the idea was that she was possibly the first person to ever stream a video of her
0:38.6	life 24 hours a day on the internet.
0:41.8	And when we ran that story, one of the points we made was that in a lot of ways, what she
0:45.4	was doing in 1996 was predicting the way a lot of us would use the internet in December
0:50.1	2014.
0:51.1	It's what I can't do math six months later.
0:54.8	Definitely not.
0:56.8	December.
0:57.8	Who can tell time?
0:58.8	It's four months later.
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