Editing Boing Boing (section)

{{Short description|Blog site}}
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{{Infobox website
| name = Boing Boing
| logo = Boing Boing Logo.svg
| screenshot = Boing Boing screenshot April 7 2025.png
| caption = Screenshot on April 7, 2025
| url = {{url|boingboing.net}}
| commercial = Yes
| collapsible = yes
| type = [[Blog]]
| owner = Happy Mutants
| founder = [[Carla Sinclair]], [[Mark Frauenfelder]]
| editor = Mark Frauenfelder, [[David Pescovitz]], [[Rob Beschizza]], [[Carla Sinclair]]
| key_people = Jason Weisberger, [[Cory Doctorow]] (until January 2020), [[Xeni Jardin]] (until February 2021)
| launch_date = {{plainlist|
*1988 (zine)
*1995 (website)
*2000 (blog)}}
}}
'''''Boing Boing''''' is a website, first established as a [[zine]] in 1988, later becoming a [[Collaborative blog|group blog]]. Common topics and themes include [[technology]], [[futurism (art)|futurism]], [[science fiction]], [[gadgets]], [[intellectual property]], [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]], and [[left-wing politics]]. It twice won the [[Blog award|Bloggies]] for Weblog of the Year, in 2004 and 2005. The editors are [[Mark Frauenfelder]], [[David Pescovitz]], [[Carla Sinclair]], and [[Rob Beschizza]],<ref name="editors">{{cite web | url=http://boingboing.net/about | title=About Us}}</ref> and the publisher is Jason Weisberger.

One report named ''Boing Boing'' as the most popular blog in the world until 2006, when Chinese-language blogs became popular;<ref>{{cite book|last1=Morrill|first1=Dan|title=Boom and bust in the blogosphere : case studies of the blogging industry|date=2008|publisher=D. Morrill|location=[United States]|isbn=978-1439216736|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6q822xv2w4MC&q=popularity+of+boingboing+blog&pg=PT33}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Boing Boing Loses #1 Most Popular Blog on Technorati to Chinese Blog|url=http://www.impactlab.net/2006/05/10/boing-boing-loses-1-most-popular-blog-on-technorati-to-chinese-blog/comment-page-1/|website=www.impactlab.net|date=10 May 2006|access-date=15 December 2017|archive-date=15 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215221533/http://www.impactlab.net/2006/05/10/boing-boing-loses-1-most-popular-blog-on-technorati-to-chinese-blog/comment-page-1/|url-status=dead}}</ref> it remained among the most widely linked and cited blogs into the 2010s.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jackson|first1=Nicholas|title=Profiling BoingBoing, One of the World's Most Popular Blogs|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/11/profiling-boingboing-one-of-the-worlds-most-popular-blogs/67204/|website=[[The Atlantic]]|date=30 November 2010}}</ref><ref name="fastcompany">{{cite web |author=Walker, Rob |author-link=Rob Walker (journalist) |date=30 November 2010 |title=Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1702167/print |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118082045/http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1702167/print |archive-date=18 January 2012 |access-date=27 March 2012 |work=[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Jatain|first1=Vishveshwar|title=We Analyzed the 10 Most Popular Blogs in the World and Here's What We Found|url=https://www.adpushup.com/blog/we-analyzed-10-most-popular-blogs-in-the-world-and-heres-what-we-found/|website=AdPushup Blog|date=20 July 2015}}</ref>