Boingers

Posting this was put off in the hopes that I would get a response to the email interviews I sent out to some of the editors at Boing Boing. Sadly, all I heard back was an echo. That’s cool though, I know they’re busy. Except.

Except for David Pescovitz, who was sweet enough to send the following reply, which I sincerely appreciate, because it was a polite thing for him to do. He was thoughtful to wish me luck.

“Hi Elizabeth,

Thanks for your email but unfortunately I’m way too slammed right now to respond. Good luck though!

-dp”  

With good tidings, and without further ado, I diligently bring you this post.

This site is huge in blogging circles, it won ‘Weblog of the Year’ in 2004 and 2005, and even though the “in” folk know about it, I realized there were a lot of us “out” folk, who had no idea of it’s existence. So, if you’re already familiar with this catalog of wonderful things, consider yourself lucky. If you’re not, consider yourself lucky anyway, because its being brought to your attention now.

Boing Boing, which started out as a magazine, has been on the web in some form since 2000. However this version of the site was only launched last August. This is noteworthy because for the last four years they had disabled their user comments section. This latest version is their first attempt to reincorporate this feature, and is currently being edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, who is not pictured above.

My only warning would be to make sure that you don’t get sucked into reading it all day, that’s pretty much what happened to my entire Saturday when I found it.