Sharing her thoughts on glamour is Jackie Danicki, the director of marketing for Qik, the live mobile streaming video platform. She's also the proto-type of the earlier adapter, having been in on every tech innovation since the whole thing began. And she blogs with Hillary Johnson at Jack & Hill, a beauty blog with wit, style and a post (by Hillary) about Sarah Palin that had the regulars reeling.
Who better to help us navigate the corridors of tech while seeking glamour?
DG: You cover two seemingly unrelated worlds--beauty and high tech. Glamour in both places? Or do you just ignore the lack?
JD: I didn't realize until you asked me this that I've cultivated a deep appreciation for those spaces where glamour is surplus to requirements. There is something pressured and thrilling about a
context in which utilitarianism is the purest form of beauty; charm and pulchritude might get you funded, but your technology still has to work. The contrast with our workaday version of glamour, all tans, hair products and French manicures (which I like, by the way) is stimulating.
JD: We always hear how the internet has "democratized" everything - politics, media, entertainment. I disagree, and don't think that we should settle for democratization anyway, but the internet is a scarcity killer at its core, and has definitely done a good job of killing the scarcity of the instruments of glamour. Whether actual glamour is being achieved in many places is up for debate. Ludwig von Mises wrote that "The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow," but I don't think glamour is as fluid as luxury. What was alluring and charming 100 years ago would probably work today, too.
The DG Dozen
1) How do you define glamour?
JD: For me, it's a level of allure and beauty that is striking for being so exceptional. It's a cliche, but glamour can no more be bought than class.
2) Who or what is your glamorous icon?
JD: Nigella Lawson. She's a bit sluttish in her personal and domestic upkeep, all those cupcakes and homemade graham crackers notwithstanding, but is as glamourous with unwashed, tangled hair and no makeup as she is in a Vivienne Westwood corset gown and stilettos.
3) Is glamour a luxury or a necessity?
JD: It's only glamour if you don't need it, but want it so much that it feels as if you do. Life does not owe us glamour, is not obliged to produce the exceptional; that is what makes glamour itself so remarkable.
4) Favorite glamorous movie? 
JD: I'm probably the only person who will say The Breakfast Club. It made a huge impression on me as a little girl (I was six when the film came out). Here you had two (ostensibly) teenage girls, one with bright red hair and freckles, one who was a complete mess. The redhead is scorching hot in classic riding boots and knee-length skirt. The pseudo-Goth turns pretty with the help of a hairbrush, a headband, and mascara. It definitely made me think that glamour was not the exclusive domain of the Rita Hayworths of the world.
5) What was your most glamorous moment?
JD: I grew up as a fairly dumpy nerd on a farm in Ohio; almost every moment since I hightailed it out of there has seemed comparatively glamourous to me. There have been many amazing nights in London, Paris, New York and Beverly Hills - champagne, the perfect dress, heady perfume in obscenely exquisite settings with charming company. But I observe apart from all that; the glamour belongs to everyone around me, it's not mine. I feel lucky to be in that world even if I am not of it.
JD: Aston Martin DB9. I tell myself I'll buy one when I can afford to pay cash outright for it - there's nothing glamorous about debt.
JD: Paris, with almost zero effort. Unoriginal but true.
8) Most glamorous job?
JD: Kept woman for the world's most glamorous, brutal man. I wish I knew who he was.
JD: Gold lamé is unspeakably common, and yet it keeps showing up on otherwise cultured women and in the pages of Vogue. I remain baffled.
10) Something or someone that you find glamorous whose glamour is unrecognized?
The Breakfast Club. It made a huge impression on me as a little girl (I was six when the film came out). Here you had two (ostensibly) teenage girls, one with bright red hair and freckles, one who was a complete mess. The redhead is scorching hot in classic riding boots and knee-length skirt. The pseudo-Goth turns pretty with the help of a hairbrush, a headband, and mascara. It definitely made me think that glamour was not theexclusive domain of the Rita Hayworths of the world.
JD: The humble bobby pin: Functional, streamlined, enables glamour and gets closer to the action than a fly on the wall.
11) Can glamour survive?
JD: Glamour will thrive, especially as capitalism spreads around the world and the standard of living is raised globally as a result. Glamour holds no truck with socialists.
JD: Nothing so extraordinary can be the sole spoil of those who have won a lottery of birth.
EITHER/OR
1) Angelina Jolie or Cate Blanchett?
Cate Blanchett is more glamourous, but I'd rather go with Angelina.
2) Paris or Venice? Paris ("of course," I want to add).
3) New York or Los Angeles?
New York, if only because all that sunshine doesn't allow the dark side you need for proper glamour.
4) Princess Diana or Princess Grace?
I should say Grace, but Diana wins on purity retention; there's something glam about extended innocence, no matter how spectacularly it eventually shatters.
5) Tokyo or Kyoto?
Tokyo; how glamorous can a city be once it's so closely associated with proposed legislation?
6) Boots or stilettos? Stilettos - no clear plastic, though.
7) Art Deco or Art Nouveau? Art Deco, by a mile.
8) Jaguar or Aston Martin? 
Aston Martin (see above. ed)
9) Armani or Versace?
I find myself wanting to pick neither. I have Versace glasses, though.
10) Diana Vreeland or Anna Wintour?
Anna Wintour, if only because she's stayed admirably quiet.
11) Champagne or single malt?
I was never woman enough for whiskey, so will choose Champagne with slightly hurt dignity.
12) 1960s or 1980s?
The 1980s seemed more fun, but shoulder pads versus all that ultra-feminine tailoring is no real contest for glamour.
13) Diamonds or pearls?
Diamonds, for versatility and inherent lack of dowdiness.
14) Kate Moss or Naomi Campbell? It says something about the accessibility of glamour that we have two South London girls pitted against one another, but I think Pete Doherty disqualified Kate Moss from winning this one.
15) Sean Connery or Daniel Craig? Oh, Daniel Craig.
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5) What was your most glamorous moment?
JD: I grew up as a fairly dumpy nerd on a farm in Ohio; almost every moment since I hightailed it out of there has seemed comparatively glamourous to me. There have been many amazing nights in London, Paris, New York and Beverly Hills - champagne, the perfect dress, heady perfume in obscenely exquisite settings with charming company. But I observe apart from all that; the glamour belongs to everyone around me, it's not mine. I feel lucky to be in that world even if I am not of it.