Boing Boing
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Boing Boing became a website in 1995 and later relaunched as a weblog on January 21, 2000, described as a "directory of wonderful things." Over time, Mark Frauenfelder was joined by three co-editors: Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and Xeni Jardin. All four Boing Boing contributors are or have been contributing writers for Wired magazine. More » (Source: Wikipedia)
Overview
Media:
Blog
Audience:
Very large audience (1M or more) (English)
Scope:
Not Applicable
Editorial
Edited By:
Kaizar Campwala
Last Edit:
Nov 7, 2006 - 4:36 PM PST
Story Stats
Top Topics:
Business (11), Politics (9), Sci/Tech (9), U.S. (8), World (7), Media (6), Internet (4), Technology (3), Entertainment (3), Movies (2), Apple (2), Human Rights (2), Living (2), Presidential Election 2008 (2), National Security (2)...
Top Authors:
Cory Doctorow (6), Xeni Jardin (4), Rob Beschizza (1), Xeni (1)
Top Formats:
Opinion (22), News (3), Review (1)
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KILL ACTA
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Graphic novel on stage in Los Angeles
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Canadian musician outsources his indie video to Bangalore, beauty ensues - Boing Boing
Derryl Murphy sez, "Drew Smith's lovely new song 'Smoke and Mirrors' needed a video, so he decided to outsource it. The result is wonderful." So I outsourced my video to ...via NewsRack -
Yahoo co-founder, former CEO Jerry Yang resigns from board and "all other positions"
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Google's Kenyan ripoff
Mocality is an African startup that has a Kenya-wide business directory. There is no Kenyan yellow pages, so the directory was crowdsourced, paying thousands of Kenyans to ...via NewsRack -
Lockdown - The coming war on general-purpose computing
General-purpose computers are astounding. They're so astounding that our society still struggles to come to grips with them, what they're for, how to accommodate them, and how ...via Xeni Jardin -
Occupy Wall Street hand signals, an illustrated guide by Ape Lad
Link. Context. A related video. A NY Mag article. A Boston Globe article. I give Ape Lad's illustration massive uptwinkles.via Xeni Jardin -
The diagnosis
I have breast cancer. A week ago, I had breast cancer, and the week before that, and the week before that. Maybe five, eight, even ten years ago, the first bad cell split ...via Andy Carvin -
Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student
He used military grade pepper spray on us. It's supposed to be used at a minimum of 15 feet. But he sprayed us at point blank range. Another student, 20 years old, who was ...
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