David L. Jones (video blogger)

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David L. Jones
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David L. Jones in his electronics lab in January 2016
Personal information
Nationality Australian
OccupationVideo blogger
Website www.eevblog.com
YouTube information
Also known asDave Jones
"The Crazy Aussie Bloke"
Channel
Years active2009–present
Genre Video blog
Subscribers915,000 subscribers [1]
(24 August 2023)
Total views197+ million views [1]
(24 August 2023)
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers2013

David L. Jones is an Australian video blogger. [2] [3] He is the founder and host of EEVBlog [4] (Electronics Engineering Video Blog), a blog and YouTube channel targeting electronics engineers, hobbyists, hackers, and makers. [2] [5] His content has been described as a combination of "in-depth equipment reviews and crazy antics". [2]

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Life

Before becoming a full-time blogger, Jones worked on FPGA boards for the EDA company Altium. [6]

According to Jones, he began publishing electronic design project plans in electronics DIY magazines like Electronics Australia in the 1980s. [2] In recent years,[ when? ] several of his project articles appeared in Silicon Chip . [7]

Jones is also the founder and co-host of The Amp Hour, [4] an electronics engineering radio show and podcast.

EEVBlog

Jones' EEVBlog YouTube channel was created on 4 April 2009. [8] [2] The channel features in-depth equipment reviews and electronics commentaries. [2] Jones has posted over 1000 episodes.

Batteriser incident

In a mid-2015 video, Jones disputed the claims of an unreleased battery life extender called Batteriser (later called Batteroo Boost after a lawsuit by Energizer). Batteroo, the company behind the product, disputed the arguments put forth by Jones and others, and published a number of demonstration videos in response. [9] In the wake of Jones' video about Batteriser, his video was "disliked" by a torrent of IP addresses located in Vietnam. [10] Other bloggers with related videos experienced similar activity from addresses in Vietnam. The bloggers involved have suspected that either a click farm in Vietnam was engaged to harm the reputations of those attacking the claims about the product, or that a single computer with many fake or stolen YouTube accounts utilized proxied IP addresses to cover its tracks. [11] Due to the anonymous nature of the attacks, it remains unknown who was responsible. [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 "About EEVBlog". YouTube.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Osborn, Steven (17 September 2013). "Dave Jones, Host, EEVBlog". Makers at Work: Folks Reinventing the World One Object or Idea at a Time. Apress. ISBN   978-1430259923.
  3. ↑ "Interview with David L. Jones". EEWeb. 3 April 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2015. I started by taking stuff apart and trying to figure out how they worked.
  4. 1 2 Price, Nan (April 2012). "Electronics Engineering for the People: An Interview with David L. Jones". Circuit Cellar. Vernon, CT, USA: Circuit Cellar Incorporated. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  5. ↑ Jones, David (4 April 2009). "EEVBlog". David L. Jones. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  6. ↑ Leung, Isaac (6 April 2011). "Altium relocates from Sydney to Shanghai". Electronics News. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  7. ↑ Jones, David L. (18 April 2009). "µCurrent...a precision current adapter for multimeters". Silicon Chip. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  8. ↑ Jones, David (4 April 2009). "EEVBlog About". David L. Jones. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  9. ↑ Francis, Hannah (17 September 2015). "Batteriser battery life extender: scam or saviour?". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  10. ↑ Russon, Mary-Ann (7 September 2015). "Hackers spamming YouTube videos with dislikes using hijacked Vietnamese IP addresses". International Business Times UK . Retrieved 22 October 2015. ...received hundreds of dislikes on his 30 August video debunking a product called Batteriser, which claims to greatly extend the life of alkaline batteries.
  11. ↑ Stewart, Joe (3 September 2015). "Negative Feedback - Attack on a YouTube Channel". Dell SecureWorks Security and Compliance Blog. Archived from the original on 8 October 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2015. Dave Jones' EEVblog, came under attack after having published a series of videos debunking a product claiming to vastly extend the life of alkaline batteries.
  12. ↑ Anderson, Martin (4 September 2015). "Youtube Dislikes for Sale, DDoS Style". The Stack. Archived from the original on 28 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016. Neither can one blame Batteriser, whatever one thinks of the circumstantial evidence...
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