Dangerous Candy
she's precocious

...But then again, she's weird, and she knows a lot of bad people.


"I want to be
the girl with
the most URLs."

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who?

Jess Barron
Los Angeles, California

I do web stuff

thoughts on the past and future of online journalism

Does Online Journalism Have a Future? -- share your thoughts

e a r c a n d y :

1. A guy who I don't know named Jeremy Abbate saw my website and wrote a song called "I Wanna Be As Cool As Jessica Barron". Another person in New York emailed the MP3 to me in Nov. 2004. The narcissist in me loves the lyrics and the song itself is pretty darn catchy. Don't you think?

2. In 2005 I had a weekly radio show on Pirate Cat Radio 87.9 FM in San Francisco from 6-8p.m. on Friday nights. You can listen online from anywhere in the world. Or just check out our podcast.

3. Also, listen to my LAUNCHcast station

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  • Gavin Admits He Likes Us
  • 22 Hours in Los Angeles, 2 Hours in a Karaoke Boot...
  • Brides, Bachelorettes, and my Scorching Hot Social...
  • Peter Jennings Was My Favorite Broadcast Journalis...
  • Anyone Have Any Good Lawyer Jokes?
  • A Healthy 'Self'-Interest?
  • I'm very worried about dragons...
  • The Phoenix from the Flames...
  • "Little surprises around every corner, but nothing...
  • Da Governator Vs. Da Protestors
  • New Year's Eve 2005 pics

    Mici's pics from the Pirate Cat Party (12/04/04)

    Los Angeles (11/27/04)

    2004 U.S. Presidential Election (inside Yahoo! newsroom) (11/02/04)

    London (11/15/04)

    Allyson's photos from our London trip (11/22/04)

    Halloween 2004

    Oregon beach house weekend for Esther's birthday (10/22/04)

    Simone and David's wedding at Fairytale Land in Oakland(08/01/04)

    Owen's 30th birthday (05/01/04)

    Mirror Project Gallery, "The Make-up Mirror"

    Daniel's birthday suprise party (04/23/04)

    live band karaoke at El Rio (04/10/04)

    August's closing party at Ebb Tide(02/27/04)

    valentine's day weekend in NYC(02/16/04)

    nice day, new convertible(02/08/04)

    nostalgia for the present (02/02/04)

    my 30th birthday(01/04)

    August's art opening at Ebb Tide (01/03/04)

    Jeff's 30th birthday (12/20/03)

    pics from Yahoo Holiday Party 2003 with The Flaming Lips (12/12/03)

    Nathan's band, the cables(11/15/03)

    pics from Burning Man 2003(09/03)

    photos from Burning Man 2002 (09/17/02)

    pics from Allyson's wedding(09/03)

    Cali Convertible Adventures with Nemesis(ter)(07/03)

    Allyson's bachelorette party(07/04/03)

    Dogpatch Sunrise - There are some visual benefits to waking up at 6a.m. when you live by the San Francisco Bay. (04/11/03)

    Kicking it with Frank the KJ (04/05/03)

    Bad Pioneer weekend - riding horses in Hollywood and swimming with dolphins in Malibu (02/14/03)

    Dat Ass - hip-hop and ghetto tech party, SF, CA (01/25/03)

    Jeno spins at House Plant - Oakland, CA (01/17/03)

    Halloween Costumes at Yahoo! and in the Castro (10/31/02)

    pics from Portland (10/26/03)

    the story I told at Fray Day 6 in SF (09/23/02)

    What is YOUR Anti-Drug? (09/16/02)

    ugly kids (08/19/02)

    Save poprocks.com

    Picking Blackberries (07/12/02)

    she said, she said (06/28/02)

    The Phoenix Festival (07/10/02)

    Photos from my SXSW road-trip (05/01/02)

    off-site:
    Esther

    Allyson

    Lana

    Mary

    Jen

    Leanne

    Fruitcake Brigade

    Sarah

    re-runs:

    love letter to los angeles (11/09/01)

    pics from Scuba with Migual Migs (08/11/01)

    robots and warehouses in my SF neighborhood (06/19/01)

    My pics from Burning Man 2001

    My pics from Burning Man 2000

    My journal from Burning Man '99

    Meeting Monica Lewinsky (11/15/99)

    What was Diane Sawyer really like? (11/17/95)

    Turkish Delights (09/08/95)

    The Scatman in Greece's Modern Ruins (08/26/95)

    Caught in a Mosh (10/94)

    Montreal Stripped Down (08/01/94)

    sophomore year spring break in Russia (04/08/94)

    conversationskill: a real life mellow-drama of Vassar students abroad in Russia (04/08/94)

    pics from the Russia trip (04/08/94)

    sophomore year road-trip to Mardi Gras (02/12/94)

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    Take a Bite of Me:
    9.15.2005
    Getting Into The Hot Zone

    A few weeks back I alluded to some cool upcoming content on Yahoo! that I couldn't tell you about on my blog. One of those supersecret things is about to launch in just over a week -- it's Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone. So, Kevin Sites is this hunky war-correspondent-turned-solo-journalist (or "SoJo," if you will) who is working for Yahoo! and spending the next 365 days travelling around the world dropping into all the areas of armed conflict. Kevin will travel without a crew and transmit video content and his thoughts via blog-posts. Here are some of the places he's going over the next year (you may have heard of them):
  • Afghanistan
  • Chechnya
  • Colombia
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Israel/Palestinian Territories
  • Kashmir
  • Nepal
  • The Philippines
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • Sudan
  • Uganda
    You can read the articles from The New York Times and The LA Times. It's pretty exciting stuff. "What the heck is Yahoo! up to?" Well, I would tell you more, but then they'd hafta fire me.

    Please note: many of these articles about Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone describe this as Yahoo!'s first foray into the world of original content creation. This is not correct. Yahoo! Finance produced the original video show FinanceVision back in 2000. It was cut in 2002 during the downturn. The Yahoo! Sports team has also been producing original sports reporting and a weekly video show called SportsStream for the past 2 or 3 years. So, the whole "Yahoo is just starting to create original content" angle in the stories isn't painting the whole picture.


  • She certainly has some crazy mixed-up: