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Type of site | Blog |
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| Owner | Happy Mutants |
| Founder(s) | Carla Sinclair, Mark Frauenfelder |
| Editor | Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, Rob Beschizza, Carla Sinclair |
| Key people | Jason Weisberger, Cory Doctorow (until January 2020), Xeni Jardin (until February 2021) |
| URL | boingboing |
| Commercial | Yes |
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Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. Common topics and themes include technology, futurism, science fiction, gadgets, intellectual property, Disney, and left-wing politics. It twice won the Bloggies for Weblog of the Year, in 2004 and 2005. The editors are Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, Carla Sinclair, and Rob Beschizza,[1] and the publisher is Jason Weisberger.
One report named Boing Boing as the most popular blog in the world until 2006, when Chinese-language blogs became popular,[2][3] and it remained among the most widely linked and cited blogs into the 2010s.[4][5][6]
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- ^ Jackson, Nicholas (30 November 2010). "Profiling BoingBoing, One of the World's Most Popular Blogs". The Atlantic.
- ^ Walker, Rob (30 November 2010). "Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing". Fast Company. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
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