Editing Boing Boing (section)

==Boing Boing Gadgets and Offworld==
In August 2007, ''Boing Boing'' introduced a gadgets-focused companion site headed by former ''[[Gizmodo]]'' editor Joel Johnson. Johnson left in July 2009, to be replaced by Rob Beschizza,<ref name="farewellJoel">{{cite web | url=http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/06/farewell-joel-johnso.html | title=Farewell, Joel Johnson | work=Boing Boing | date=6 July 2009 | access-date=27 March 2012 | author=Pescovitz, David}}</ref> formerly of ''Wired News''. Other writers include Steven Leckart and Lisa Katayama.<ref name="welcomeKatayamaLeckart">{{cite web | url=http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/06/welcome-lisa-katayam.html | title=Welcome Lisa Katayama and Steven Leckart to BBG | work=Boing Boing Gadgets | date=6 April 2009 | access-date=27 March 2012 | author=Johnson, Joel}}</ref> Offworld, a blog covering video games edited by [[Brandon Boyer]], was added in November 2008.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10098933-52.html | title=Boing Boing launches game blog Offworld | work=CNET | date=17 November 2008 | access-date=27 March 2012 | author=Terdiman, Daniel | author-link=Daniel Terdiman }}</ref> These sites were incorporated into Boing Boing itself around 2010.{{Citation needed|date=August 2014}} Plans to revive the Offworld site were announced in 2015, with [[Leigh Alexander (journalist)|Leigh Alexander]] as Editor-in-Chief and Laura Hudson as Editor.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://boingboing.net/2015/03/06/offworld-returns.html | title=Games return to Boing Boing| date=6 March 2015}}</ref> Leigh Alexander and Laura Hudson left Offworld in early 2016 after publishing a collection of selected articles, successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter in March 2016.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1315256652/the-offworld-collection | title=The Offworld Collection}}</ref>