WASHINGTON -- Jennifer Ringley is her own paparazzo.
Perched above her bedroom in her Washington apartment, a camera snaps her picture every day, 24 hours a day, and then transmits it onto her "JenniCam" web site (http://www.boudoir.
org).
JenniCam has about 20 million "hits," or access to the site, each day.
"The camera started looking at the life of a normal college girl, and now it's become the JenniCam [that] is looking at the life of a celebrity," the 21-year-old web page designer said.
Most of the time, the photos are anything but thrilling -- Jenni working on her computer, Jenni talking on the phone. But sometimes those who log on get a more tantalizing image -- Jenni changing clothes or getting out of the shower.
"That first night I saw her, she was sitting topless at the computer," Josh Willner, 35, a warehouse worker from Florida, said in an e-mail message. "That was, I guess, what had first hooked me on it. The fact that a woman would do something so bold was fascinating."
Since JenniCam started out of her Dickinson College dorm room in Pennsylvania 1 1/2 years ago, fans have erected web pages in honor of the woman one site calls "The Queen of Cyberspace." Computer users talk to each other online about JenniCam on chatrooms and hundreds e-mail her every day.
"Without the camera, I probably would have always been a nobody," Ringley said.
But most of the fan web sites are devoted to pictures of Jenni. Some declare themselves "clean" sites, featuring snaps of a fully clothed Jenni in innocent poses. Others, however, feature nude shots of Jenni, and she is not shy about having sex in front of the camera.
Jenni said the pictures out there are part of the "project" that is JenniCam, to give a person a window into someone's private world, virtually live.
"The point is that it's a real person doing real things," Ringley said.
There are other "webcam" sites similar to Jenni's, but many claim that Ringley is the one who started it all.
About 5,500 people pay $15 each year to be JenniCam subscribers who can receive updated images every three minutes. It costs more than $3,000 to run the site each month, Ringley said.
"Guests" can receive a new image every 30 minutes for free. There are about 75 men to every woman who subscribes.
Starting next week, JenniCam goes on the road as Jenni travels through Europe for five weeks. Using a digital camera, Ringley will download shots of her trip onto the Internet to fill the void of her empty bedroom, she said.
After meeting Ringley, it is hard to imagine that the 1.77-meter, slightly plump, freckle-faced redhead is the same person who bares all in cyberspace.
Dressed in a crisp white blouse, white tights and a pleated maroon skirt, she is polite and friendly. Her bed is always made. Teddy bears sit neatly on her pastel pillows. Even her e-mail address, [email protected], is the portrait of innocence.
"I'm not a remarkable person," she said. "The interesting thing is not me. The interesting thing is the camera."
REUTERS
WASHINGTON -- Jennifer Ringley is her own paparazzo.
Perched above her bedroom in her Washington apartment, a camera snaps her picture every day, 24 hours a day, and then transmits it onto her "JenniCam" web site (http://www.boudoir.
org).
JenniCam has about 20 million "hits," or access to the site, each day.
"The camera started looking at the life of a normal college girl, and now it's become the JenniCam [that] is looking at the life of a celebrity," the 21-year-old web page designer said.
Most of the time, the photos are anything but thrilling -- Jenni working on her computer, Jenni talking on the phone. But sometimes those who log on get a more tantalizing image -- Jenni changing clothes or getting out of the shower.
"That first night I saw her, she was sitting topless at the computer," Josh Willner, 35, a warehouse worker from Florida, said in an e-mail message. "That was, I guess, what had first hooked me on it. The fact that a woman would do something so bold was fascinating."
Since JenniCam started out of her Dickinson College dorm room in Pennsylvania 1 1/2 years ago, fans have erected web pages in honor of the woman one site calls "The Queen of Cyberspace." Computer users talk to each other online about JenniCam on chatrooms and hundreds e-mail her every day.
"Without the camera, I probably would have always been a nobody," Ringley said.
But most of the fan web sites are devoted to pictures of Jenni. Some declare themselves "clean" sites, featuring snaps of a fully clothed Jenni in innocent poses. Others, however, feature nude shots of Jenni, and she is not shy about having sex in front of the camera.
Jenni said the pictures out there are part of the "project" that is JenniCam, to give a person a window into someone's private world, virtually live.
"The point is that it's a real person doing real things," Ringley said.
There are other "webcam" sites similar to Jenni's, but many claim that Ringley is the one who started it all.
About 5,500 people pay $15 each year to be JenniCam subscribers who can receive updated images every three minutes. It costs more than $3,000 to run the site each month, Ringley said.
"Guests" can receive a new image every 30 minutes for free. There are about 75 men to every woman who subscribes.
Starting next week, JenniCam goes on the road as Jenni travels through Europe for five weeks. Using a digital camera, Ringley will download shots of her trip onto the Internet to fill the void of her empty bedroom, she said.
After meeting Ringley, it is hard to imagine that the 1.77-meter, slightly plump, freckle-faced redhead is the same person who bares all in cyberspace.
Dressed in a crisp white blouse, white tights and a pleated maroon skirt, she is polite and friendly. Her bed is always made. Teddy bears sit neatly on her pastel pillows. Even her e-mail address, [email protected], is the portrait of innocence.
"I'm not a remarkable person," she said. "The interesting thing is not me. The interesting thing is the camera."
Perched above her bedroom in her Washington apartment, a camera snaps her picture every day, 24 hours a day, and then transmits it onto her "JenniCam" web site (http://www.boudoir.
org).
JenniCam has about 20 million "hits," or access to the site, each day.
"The camera started looking at the life of a normal college girl, and now it's become the JenniCam [that] is looking at the life of a celebrity," the 21-year-old web page designer said.
Most of the time, the photos are anything but thrilling -- Jenni working on her computer, Jenni talking on the phone. But sometimes those who log on get a more tantalizing image -- Jenni changing clothes or getting out of the shower.
"That first night I saw her, she was sitting topless at the computer," Josh Willner, 35, a warehouse worker from Florida, said in an e-mail message. "That was, I guess, what had first hooked me on it. The fact that a woman would do something so bold was fascinating."
Since JenniCam started out of her Dickinson College dorm room in Pennsylvania 1 1/2 years ago, fans have erected web pages in honor of the woman one site calls "The Queen of Cyberspace." Computer users talk to each other online about JenniCam on chatrooms and hundreds e-mail her every day.
"Without the camera, I probably would have always been a nobody," Ringley said.
But most of the fan web sites are devoted to pictures of Jenni. Some declare themselves "clean" sites, featuring snaps of a fully clothed Jenni in innocent poses. Others, however, feature nude shots of Jenni, and she is not shy about having sex in front of the camera.
Jenni said the pictures out there are part of the "project" that is JenniCam, to give a person a window into someone's private world, virtually live.
"The point is that it's a real person doing real things," Ringley said.
There are other "webcam" sites similar to Jenni's, but many claim that Ringley is the one who started it all.
About 5,500 people pay $15 each year to be JenniCam subscribers who can receive updated images every three minutes. It costs more than $3,000 to run the site each month, Ringley said.
"Guests" can receive a new image every 30 minutes for free. There are about 75 men to every woman who subscribes.
Starting next week, JenniCam goes on the road as Jenni travels through Europe for five weeks. Using a digital camera, Ringley will download shots of her trip onto the Internet to fill the void of her empty bedroom, she said.
After meeting Ringley, it is hard to imagine that the 1.77-meter, slightly plump, freckle-faced redhead is the same person who bares all in cyberspace.
Dressed in a crisp white blouse, white tights and a pleated maroon skirt, she is polite and friendly. Her bed is always made. Teddy bears sit neatly on her pastel pillows. Even her e-mail address, [email protected], is the portrait of innocence.
"I'm not a remarkable person," she said. "The interesting thing is not me. The interesting thing is the camera."
REUTERS
WASHINGTON -- Jennifer Ringley is her own paparazzo.
Perched above her bedroom in her Washington apartment, a camera snaps her picture every day, 24 hours a day, and then transmits it onto her "JenniCam" web site (http://www.boudoir.
org).
JenniCam has about 20 million "hits," or access to the site, each day.
"The camera started looking at the life of a normal college girl, and now it's become the JenniCam [that] is looking at the life of a celebrity," the 21-year-old web page designer said.
Most of the time, the photos are anything but thrilling -- Jenni working on her computer, Jenni talking on the phone. But sometimes those who log on get a more tantalizing image -- Jenni changing clothes or getting out of the shower.
"That first night I saw her, she was sitting topless at the computer," Josh Willner, 35, a warehouse worker from Florida, said in an e-mail message. "That was, I guess, what had first hooked me on it. The fact that a woman would do something so bold was fascinating."
Since JenniCam started out of her Dickinson College dorm room in Pennsylvania 1 1/2 years ago, fans have erected web pages in honor of the woman one site calls "The Queen of Cyberspace." Computer users talk to each other online about JenniCam on chatrooms and hundreds e-mail her every day.
"Without the camera, I probably would have always been a nobody," Ringley said.
But most of the fan web sites are devoted to pictures of Jenni. Some declare themselves "clean" sites, featuring snaps of a fully clothed Jenni in innocent poses. Others, however, feature nude shots of Jenni, and she is not shy about having sex in front of the camera.
Jenni said the pictures out there are part of the "project" that is JenniCam, to give a person a window into someone's private world, virtually live.
"The point is that it's a real person doing real things," Ringley said.
There are other "webcam" sites similar to Jenni's, but many claim that Ringley is the one who started it all.
About 5,500 people pay $15 each year to be JenniCam subscribers who can receive updated images every three minutes. It costs more than $3,000 to run the site each month, Ringley said.
"Guests" can receive a new image every 30 minutes for free. There are about 75 men to every woman who subscribes.
Starting next week, JenniCam goes on the road as Jenni travels through Europe for five weeks. Using a digital camera, Ringley will download shots of her trip onto the Internet to fill the void of her empty bedroom, she said.
After meeting Ringley, it is hard to imagine that the 1.77-meter, slightly plump, freckle-faced redhead is the same person who bares all in cyberspace.
Dressed in a crisp white blouse, white tights and a pleated maroon skirt, she is polite and friendly. Her bed is always made. Teddy bears sit neatly on her pastel pillows. Even her e-mail address, [email protected], is the portrait of innocence.
"I'm not a remarkable person," she said. "The interesting thing is not me. The interesting thing is the camera."
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