13 Facts About Boing Boing

1.

Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog.

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Boing Boing started as a zine in 1988 by married duo Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair.

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3.

Boing Boing was established as a website in 1995 and one year later was a web-only publication.

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4.

Boing Boing relaunched Boing Boing as a weblog on 21 January 2000, describing it as a "directory of wonderful things".

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5.

In September 2003, Boing Boing removed their Quicktopics user-comment feature without warning or explanation.

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6.

In 2013, Boing Boing switched from the proprietary Disqus comment system to Discourse, an open-source internet forum developed by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward and Sam Saffron.

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7.

Boing Boing featured a "guest blogger" sidebar, then stopped the series in summer of 2004.

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8.

In September 2006, Boing Boing introduced a weekly podcast, "Boing Boing Boing", intended to cover the week's posts and upcoming projects.

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9.

In September 2009, Boing Boing refused to comply with a demand from Polo Ralph Lauren's lawyers to remove a post concerning a heavily manipulated image of model Filippa Hamilton, originally published by the Photoshop Disasters blog.

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10.

Blogspot complied, but Boing Boing's ISP consulted with Boing Boing and agreed that the image was fair use.

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11.

Gweek is a podcast in which the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, TV shows, music, movies, tools, gadgets, apps, and other "neat" stuff.

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12.

In October 2007, Boing Boing started a new component, Boing Boing TV, that consists of video segments including SPAMasterpiece Theater with John Hodgman, produced by its co-editors in conjunction with DECA, the Digital Entertainment Corporation of America.

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13.

Boing Boing has been described as an "outspoken critic of censorship elsewhere", and operates a high speed, high quality Tor exit node.

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