POPROCKS.COM
The online home of Jess Barron

Web content and community expert, writer, editor, blogger, and internet video producer.
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In 2004, 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." It still amuses me. Here's the mp3 and here are the lyrics.

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See how this site looked in 1998
Poprocks.com screenshot from early 1998
and how the place looked in 2000.
Poprocks.com from June 2000
Yahoo counted me as a "cool person" from 1997-2001. How far have I fallen?!
Yahoo counted me among the "Cool People" in 1997-1998.
The internets have come a long way, baby...

November 7, 2006 Turning Away from Jackson's Breasts for a Moment...
For this Election Day, I turned my focus away from topics such as purses and Janet Jackson's breasts to something slightly more important -- and political -- for the Yahoo! Top 5 segment on ABC News NOW.

In today's special political video segment, I spoke about the Top 5 Political Blogs and the Top 5 Hot-Button Ballot issues. This wasn't my best segment. I was talking way too fast, and also my neck and chest broke out in a rash from the heat. (It was 92 degrees yesterday in Los Angeles when we taped this segment and there's no make-up person on-hand to save me from unsightly redness.) I'll try to look past my disturbing appearance, and take comfort in the fact that we got some more serious info out there.

Did YOU vote today? Why or why not? What's the big issue for you this election?

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posted by Jess Barron @ 1:23 PM
October 1, 2006 I'm Very Knowledgeable About Purses and Janet Jackson's Breasts...
People have been asking for a link to see the ABC News Yahoo! Top 5 video segment that Heather, LJ, and I appear on each week. ABC News: Yahoo! Top 5 Searches
OK, you can have a peak, but only if you promise not to make fun of me for blushing when I talk about Chanel handbags and Janet Jackson getting all naked on magazine covers. Check out the video.

Is this what you all expected when I majored in American Culture at Vassar? That I'd build a career of knowing where to find knock-off Gucci bags online and what the story is behind Janet Jackson's "invisible daughter..." Yeah, I thought so, too.

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posted by Jess Barron @ 4:37 PM