About Us
Mark Frauenfelder Editor
Mark is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles. He co-founded bOING bOING magazine and this blog, and was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998. For three years, he wrote a monthly column for Playboy called "Living Online," and was the co-editor of The Happy Mutant Handbook (Putnam-Berkley, 1995). He was also the design columnist for Mobile PC magazine and a contributing editor to TheFeature. He is a ukulele fanatic.
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Writing & illustration
Make • Dinosaurs and Robots
Cory Doctorow Editor
Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger, the author of Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novels like FOR THE WIN and the bestselling LITTLE BROTHER. He was also the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Cory has written for Wired, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Make, Locus and others. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.
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Craphound.com • The Guardian
My books at Amazon
David Pescovitz Editor
David is a research director with the Institute for the Future. He is also editor-at-large for MAKE. Pescovitz co-wrote the book Reality Check, based on his long-running forecasting column in Wired magazine where he remains a correspondent. He also has contributed to Scientific American, Popular Science, the New York Times, the Washington Post, New Scientist, and many other publications.
Xeni Jardin Editor
Xeni is an award winning writer and the Executive Producer and host of Webby-honored "Boing Boing Video," online and in-flight on Virgin America. She has contributed to such diverse venues as NPR, Wired, NYT, LAT, and Guardian. A frequently-sought tech expert in TV news, Xeni loves music, is a Zero-G junkie, and named a plane. She is multilingual.
Xeni at xeni dot net • Twitter
Xeni.net • NPR
Boing Boing Video
Rob Beschizza Managing Editor
A former newspaper reporter, illustrator and developer, Rob was editor of Wired.com's Gadget Lab before landing at Boing Boing in 2008. Recent works include a musical momento mori, a computer game and a short story; recent mentions/interviews may be found at Fast Company, NPR, Bloomberg, Prosa, and Huffington Post.
Maggie Koerth-Baker Science Editor
Maggie tweets pretty much daily; writes monthly for The New York Times Magazine; and recently published her first book, Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before it Conquers Us. Her work has appeared in magazines such as Discover and Popular Science, and in the anthology The Best Science Writing Online 2012. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and her bipartisan cats, Red and Blue.
Jason Weisberger Publisher
Born into slavery in Pharoah's Egypt, Jason escaped with friend Moses until a minor mishap at the Red Sea separated them. Appearing at crucial times in human development, only to later fade back into obscurity, Jason is currently serving as Publisher of Boing Boing and advisor to the Happy Mutants Board.
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Ken Snider System Administrator
Ken Snider is the director of operations at Federated Media.
Dean Putney Developer
Dean Putney has built software for Institute for the Future, MAKEzine.com, Kevin Kelly, Buyer's Best Friend and Youth Radio. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's Information Systems department, he lives in San Francisco and collects animated GIFs.
Eric Mittleman Video Editor
Eric Mittleman has produced more than 1,000 hours of television programming in New York, London, Toronto, Moscow, and Cannes; and several feature films including the multiple award winning “Comic Book: The Movie,” starring Mark Hamill, Kevin Smith, Bruce Campbell, Sid Caesar and Jonathan Winters.
