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''Boing Boing'' is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog. Common themes include technology, futurism, science fiction, gadgets, intellectual property, Disney and left-wing politics, and it twice won the Bloggies for Weblog of the Year, in 2004 and 2005. The editors are Mark Frauenfelder, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, Xeni Jardin, and Rob Beschizza. ==History== ''Boing Boing'' (originally ''bOING bOING'') started as a zine in 1988 by Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair, his wife. Issues were subtitled ''"The World's Greatest Neurozine"''. Associate editors included Gareth Branwyn, Jon Lebkowsky, and Paco Nathan. Along with Mondo 2000, ''Boing Boing'' was an influence in the development of the cyberpunk subculture. It reached a maximum circulation of 17,500 copies.〔 The last issue of the zine was #15. ''Boing Boing'' became a Web site in 1995 and one year later was a web-only publication.〔 While researching for an article about blogs in 1999, Frauenfelder became acquainted with the Blogger software, which led〔 to the relaunch of ''Boing Boing'' as a weblog on 21 January 2000, described as a "directory of wonderful things." Over time, Frauenfelder was joined by four co-editors—Doctorow, Pescovitz, Jardin and Beschizza—who previously contributed to ''Wired'' magazine. Maggie Koerth-Baker, after a run as a guest blogger in 2009, joined the site as its Science Editor. In September 2003, ''Boing Boing'' removed their Quicktopics user-comment feature without warning or explanation. Bloggers commenting on the change at the time speculated that it stemmed from "identity impersonators and idiot flamers" pretending to be co-editors. Xeni Jardin was also a guest on the ''NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'' to discuss the ''Washington Posts decision to remove their comments section, and spoke from her experience at ''Boing Boing''. In August 2007, a redesigned site was launched, which included a restored comment facility, moderated by Teresa Nielsen Hayden. In 2004, the project incorporated as Happy Mutants LLC, and John Battelle became the blog's business manager. Boing Boing, by the mid-2000s, "had become one of the most-read and linked-to blogs in the world" according to Fast Company.〔 The site added advertising over the course of late 2004, placed above and to the left and right of material, and, in 2005, in the site's RSS feed as well. Editor Cory Doctorow noted that "John () said it's going to be harder to make a little money to pay your bandwidth bills than it will be to make a lot of money and have a real source of income from this." The advertising income during the first quarter was already $27,000, and , ''Boing Boing'' still "makes a nice living for its founders and a handful of contract employees" but is no longer member of Battelle's blog network Federated Media Publishing Inc.〔 ''Boing Boing'' featured a "guest blogger" sidebar, then stopped the series in summer of 2004. In 2008, the "guest blogger" series resumed, with guests posting in the main blog for two-week periods. Guests have included Charles Platt, John Shirley, Tiffany Lee Brown, Karen Marcelo of Survival Research Laboratories, Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom, Rudy Rucker, Gareth Branwyn, Wiley Wiggins, Jason Scott of textfiles.com, Jessamyn West of librarian.net, journalists Danny O'Brien and Quinn Norton and comedian John Hodgman. In September 2006, ''Boing Boing'' introduced a weekly podcast, "Boing Boing Boing", intended to cover the week's posts and upcoming projects. The show's cast consists of the ''Boing Boing'' editors accompanied by a weekly guest. In the same month, ''Boing Boing'' introduced a second podcast called "Get Illuminated", which features interviews with writers, artists, and other creatives. The site's own original content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license, as of August 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Policies )〕 In September 2009, ''Boing Boing'' refused to comply with a demand from Polo Ralph Lauren's lawyers to remove a post concerning a heavily manipulated image of model Filippa Hamilton, originally published by the Photoshop Disasters blog, which was itself forced to comply by its hosting provider. Ralph Lauren issued DMCA takedown notices to ''BoingBoing'' On the evening of 27 October 2010, somebody hacked the ''Boing Boing'' website. About one hour later, it was down, but then returned. On 3 May 2011, the 1st podcast of "Gweek" was released. Gweek is a podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, TV shows, music, movies, tools, gadgets, apps, and other neat stuff. In the first episode of Boing Boing's Gweek, Rob Beschizza and Mark Frauenfelder discussed subjects such as the video game "Portal 2", graphic novels, upcoming science fiction books, and recommendations of some of their favorite adventure games for mobile platforms. Gweek has since been joined by several other podcasts. In 2013, Boing Boing switched from the proprietary Disqus comment system to Discourse, an open-source internet forum developed by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward and Sam Saffron. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boing Boing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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