Boing Boing is a directory of mostly wonderful things. We've been at it since 1988, when it started as a print zine, and have published original posts on the web since 1995, which makes us one of the longest-running blogs on the internet.
What we do
Boing Boing publishes a mix of original reporting, link curation, and personal commentary. We cover technology, culture, science fiction, makers, civil liberties, art, design, weird internet phenomena, and whatever else we find interesting. Most posts are short — a link, an image, a thought — and reflect the voice and opinions of their author. Some are longer features. Many are playful. Some are angry. Few are neutral.
We have a perspective, and we don't hide it. Boing Boing supports civil liberties, privacy, free expression, open culture, makers and DIY, and is skeptical of concentrated corporate and state power. These commitments have held across decades and across whichever party happens to be in office. We are not a wire service and have never claimed to be.
Who we are
Boing Boing was co-founded by Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair as a print zine in 1988. The current editors are Mark Frauenfelder, Rob Beschizza, and Jason Weisberger. Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and Xeni Jardin were longtime co-editors and remain part of our extended family. A rotating roster of contributors writes for the site.
Every post carries a byline. Author archive pages collect each writer's work. The editors and core team listed below have direct contact information here; many of our regular contributors maintain their own public websites and social profiles, which readers can readily find.
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Contact
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EDITORS
Mark Frauenfelder | mark@boingboing.net Author, illustrator, co-founder. Wink Books. MarkFrauenfelder.com. @frauenfelder
David Pescovitz | pesco@boingboing.net BB's managing partner. Futurist. Writer. @pesco
Rob Beschizza | rob@boingboing.net Writer, artist, and developer. Game Deaths. TinyHack. Nomen Ludi. 19A0. @beschizza
Carla Sinclair | carla@boingboing.net Co-founder of Boing Boing.
PUBLISHER
Jason Weisberger | jason@boingboing.net Publisher, Photographer, Prestidigitator. @jlw
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Ken Snider | ken@boingboing.net SysAdmin, Gamer, Technologist, Community Manager. @orenwolf@mstdn.ca
CONTRIBUTORS
Thom Dunn, Devin Nealy, Rusty Blazenhoff, Seamus Bellamy, Andrea James, Gina Loukareas, Gareth Branwyn, Xeni Jardin, Cory Doctorow, Caroline Siede, Maggie Koerth, Futility Closet, Peter Sheridan, Ruben Bolling, Richard Kaufman, Ethan Persoff, Dave Tolnai, Adam Gelbart, Dean Putney, Mark Dery, Ferdinando Buscema, Sarina Frauenfelder, Michael Borys, Jonathan Allen, Soona Amhaz, Jeff VanderMeer, Nate 'Igor' Smith, Teresa Larraz Mora, Sarah White, Racheline Maltese, Andrew Cartmel, Ugo Vallauri, Ed Piskor, David Katznelson, Karl Schroeder, Gregory Benford, Rob Reid, Andrew Wingate, Jayson Elliot, John O'Reilly, Shahid Buttar, Dan Hillier, Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group, Simone Brunozzi, Caleb Kraft, Amy Stewart, Rosemary Frei, Bill Barol, Brian Heater, Kevin Kelly, Marykate Smith Despres, Arwen Elys Dayton, Matthew Kressel, Eric Faden, Sarah Granger, Jess Kimble Leslie, Glenn Fleishman, LibraryLab, Evan J. Peterson, Roderick Miller, Cecil Castellucci, Ju-min Park.
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