Boing Boing

Boing Boing is an English blog, which was launched in 2000 and emerged from an eponymous magazine, the publication was discontinued, however. It is written by several people and treated mainly topics such as technology, science fiction, Copyright, Intellectual Property, nerds.

History

Boing Boing was first issued in 1988 as a magazine by Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair. Despite relatively high awareness, and influence on the cyberpunk scene, distribution was stopped after the publisher had gone bankrupt.

Frauenfelder, author of Wired magazine, decided in 1995 Boing Boing restart, but as a Web page. In January 2000, the site was transformed into a blog. It joined other authors who also wrote for Wired. The authors include Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and Xeni Jardin. In addition to the contributions of the fixed group of bloggers also guest contributions from other bloggers are published.

The popularity of weblogs increased enormously and Boing Boing became one of the most highly trafficked blogs. It counts about 3 million visits per month and has 600,000 RSS subscribers. It won the 2004 and 2005 Weblog Award " Bloggies " as the best American and best group blog and was nominated in 2006 for the Webby Awards.

2007 Boing Boing has been expanded and now has a special weblog about "gadgets" and a video blog called " Boing Boing TV".

The blog content also available under a Creative Commons license, which permits non-commercial processing with attribution.