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Why do I love Boing Boing as much as I hate seeing Mark Frauenfelder in an Adobe ad? steampoweredboy files a tidy 3-paragraph reply: More »

4:40 PM on Thu Oct 16 2008
By Paul Boutin
504 views, 1 comment
mark frauenfelder
Boing Boing founder's directory of wonderful ads
Mark Frauenfelder launched bOING bOING, an ink-on-paper zine, in 1988. He did the artwork for Billy Idol's 1993 Cyberpunk album, using a Mac instead of a photo studio. Frauenfelder joined Wired when that was considered a foolish move by media professionals. Later he resurrected Boing Boing as a website, then again as a blog in 2000. He's now editor-in-chief of Make magazine. Does this guy have an unlimited supply of cool? Not unless he learns to say no to advertisers who co-opt him. More »

7:00 AM on Thu Oct 16 2008
By Paul Boutin
2,559 views, 10 comments

Most discussed El_Feo: They also FREAK the fuck out if you criticize anyone n one of their sponsored posts. So hypocritical. It's slimy more »
Back to our regularly scheduled Xeni Space Pr0n Save your blog drama for Obama. Boing Boing starship trooper Xeni Jardin posted close-up photos of fun-loving Virgin billionaire Richard Branson's new space tourism plane, Eve, from yesterday's big debut event.
(Photo by Brian Lam) MORE »

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we read twitter so you don't have to
Boing Boing expands from unpublishing to untweeting
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, the Boing Boing comments moderator who posted Boing Boing's formal response to last month's Violet Blue "unpublishing" flamefest, is a smart lady who, judging from her own comments, doesn't afraid of anything. She invented the practice of removing the vowels from blog comments she deems out of line, to avoid scrubbing them completely from the public record. So I'm surprised to see that Hayden took down one of her own Twitter updates Monday, apparently because Blue linked to it. Teresa, wht th fck?

12:20 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Paul Boutin
1,271 views, 6 comments

Latest by jsavimbi: Under attack by Gawker Media? Half a dozen posts and twenty comments no constitute an attack? Apparently she's become insensitive more »
nerdfight
Violet Blue tries to restrain critic with court order instead of sexy rubber strap
Internet sex educator Violet Blue has asked a court to serve a restraining order against Ben Burch, a Wikipedia editor. Blue's entry on Wikipedia has been home to almost as much conflict as the fallout from her deletion from the popular blog Boing Boing: her boyfriend, Jonathan Moore, is responsible for at least eighteen of the entry's edits (as "Wikiwikimoore"), prompting Burch and others to question whether he can observe the site's requirement for a neutral point of view regarding all subjects. Blue's response, based on documents forwarded to Valleywag, is to ask a court to declare Burch a threat to her physical safety. More »

12:20 PM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
4,120 views, 41 comments

Latest by Baleusias: Actually, denied "without prejudice" means that it was denied, but that it wasn't a frivolous case. If the plaintiff more »
boing boing
The glamorous way out of a Web drama
What's the classiest finish to an Internet catfight? The shining example will be July 2008's Boing Boing vs. Violet Blue. It wasn't about player-hating and girl-on-girl sex, we'll all say. No no, it was about freedom and blogging and privacy and good versus evil. Now that we've all moved on, the New York Times steps in a week later to clean things up with a G-rated rehash that suggests Violet Blue may be the real winner. What have each of the participants learned? More »

1:00 PM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
2,153 views, 11 comments

Latest by TallulahSkankhead: Map seems to have been removed--why link to it here? And, why do I care? more »

100-word version
Boing Boing's unapologetic eleventh-hour apologia
Boing Boing's readers, hopped up on free-speech rhetoric, continue to find the tech-culture blog's act of unpublishing unspeakable. Hoping to put the Internet's most enduring drama llama this month to bed, the Los Angeles Times rounded up four members of Boing Boing's staff yesterday for a late-night confab. The result is transcribed here and there, but for those about to launch into a three-day weekend, we salute you with only the most wonderful bits, perfect for around-the-barbeque reblogging. It is at once brilliant and brain-numbing in its inconclusiveness. But if the answer to bad speech is more speech, why not answer an act of unpublishing with more nonwords? More »

2:00 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
2,143 views, 6 comments

Latest by drinkwater: I can't help but ponder what the internet would be shaped like if it was founded in some place like more »
nerdfight
Boing Boing's relationship with Violet Blue comes full circle
Sex blogger Violet Blue may have tried to ride the Boing Boing coattail express to microfame by airing grievances publicly. But once upon a time she waged the same kind of war on Boing Boing cofounder Xeni Jardin's side against Matthew Neal Sharp, curator of xenisucks.com, and the New York Times. Now, after the bad breakup between the two bloggers became serious business, another gentleman has put a thumb in the third eye of the popular catalog of eclectic ephemera by creating violetbluevioletblue.net — a directory of formerly wonderful things from Boing Boing that featured Blue, deleted by Jardin from the site a year ago. More »

7:00 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Jackson West
3,581 views, 8 comments

Latest by raincoaster: @Avery: Seven comments in and it's already time for someone to pull a Godwin's? more »
metafilter
1,259 insults on one page
As a human being with a soul in there somewhere, I've avoided blogging about the Xeni-Violet scandal. But as a wannabe comedy writer, I found myself obsessively poring over the 1,200-plus Metafilter comments on our report. I'd forgotten why I love-hated Metafilter: It's a boyzone of spiteful, pseudonymous insult comics, but many are snappy with the English language. "Instead of calling it what it is, they're going to clown us with semantics." Red meat for you guys at MeFi: The "homophobic" headline on yesterday's post was added by big gay Owen Thomas himself. Discuss.

3:00 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Paul Boutin
2,447 views, 6 comments
full disclosure
The Valleywag-Boing Boing sex map
"Did you sleep with Violet Blue? I can't keep track," my editor IM'd me. He's not nosy; he's just trying to stay on top of things. To help him — and you — out, I've dashed off this sex map of l'affaire Boing Boing, including my own involvement. (Why didn't Xeni Jardin just do this in the first place? In retrospect, that seems easier than taking the abuse she's now getting.) Jardin thinks blogging one's personal life is "stupid," but then, I get to report for an operation where my seriously gay editor factchecks the difference between "lesbian" and "girl-on-girl." And if we're fucking the people we're reporting on, we'll tell you. So no, I did not sleep with Violet Blue. Even though she asked. More »

12:00 PM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
6,489 views, 39 comments

Latest by lastweeksdate: the map isn't very clear. how to do i get to nick? more »

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