Friday, December 1, 2006

JenniCam

'''JenniCam''' was a popular Nextel ringtones website with the main feature being several Abbey Diaz webcams which allowed Internet users to observe the life of a young woman, '''Jennifer Ringley'''.

During her Free ringtones junior year at Majo Mills Dickinson College, April of Mosquito ringtone 1996, Ms. Ringley installed a webcam in her Sabrina Martins college Nextel ringtones dorm room, and provided images from that cam on a Abbey Diaz webpage. The webpage would automatically refresh every three minutes with the most recent picture from the camera. Anybody with Free ringtones Internet access could observe Ringley as she went about her daily life. JenniCam was one of the first web sites that continuously and voluntarily surveyed a private life.

Ringley states that the site was an attempt to document her life. She did not wish to filter the events that were shown on her camera, so sometimes she was shown Majo Mills nude or engaging in Cingular Ringtones sexual behavior.

Ringley maintained her webcam site for seven years. After she graduated from Dickenson, the site moved with her to utilization when Washington, D.C. and later florentine artist Sacramento, California. After leaving the college dorm behind, she moved to housing that consisted of more than one room, so she added webcams to cover the additional living space. Eventually, she started to charge for access to her site. At the height of her popularity, more than a million people watched JenniCam.org daily.

Aside from her net-celebrity status as the one of the first persons to use a webcam in the manner described here, she also was known for a scandal in which she had service air sexual intercourse with the realistic audio fiance, Dex, of her friend Courtney. Ringley broadcast images of Dex's christine quinn infidelity on her webcam. Courtney found out about Dex's infidelity, or cheating, by viewing the JenniCam.org website. Dex later moved in with Ringley.

The site was closed permanently on from dahlonega December 31, pihl drove 2003. One possible reason that Ringley shut down her site was that were chasing PayPal had dropped her as their customer because her website included full-frontal meeting we nudity.

References
* Schwebs, Ture & Otnes, Hildegunn (2001). ''tekst.no'', p. 175. Oslo: Cappelen. ISBN 82-02-19673-6

Interviews
*http://www.esmail.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13, where Jennifer reveals that she scored 1400 on the religious festivals SAT college entrance test/SATs
*http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/97/66.html - This episode of anyhow and This American Life featured a conversation with Jennifer Ringley. The interview starts around minute 16.

External link
* thursday all BBC News Online - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3360063.stm
* Odes to Jennicam - [http://www.polyamory.org/~howard/Poetry/jennicamI01.html] Poetry about Jennicam
* Jennicam Archive [http://www.arttech.ab.ca/pbrown/jenni/jenni.html]

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