BoingBoing.net Announces Boing Boing Gadgets, Comments, and Redesign.Seven Years In, It's Time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for a Bit of Renovation SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. Media Publishing Inc.(FM) and the co-editors at Boing Boing Boing Boing (originally bOING bOING) is a publishing entity, first established as a magazine, later becoming an award winning group blog. History Boing Boing started as a zine in 1988 by Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair. , one of the world's most popular and influential blogs, today announce three new features for the award-winning "directory of wonderful things" at BoingBoing.net: * The debut of Gadgets.BoingBoing.net * The return of audience comments * A major design makeover for Boing Boing The redesign and addition of Boing Boing Gadgets comes 7 years and nearly 40,000 posts since the former print magazine BoingBoing, which debuted in 1989, became a blog. In collaboration with FM's technical team, BB has developed and added an array of new custom community features. "BoingBoing is a lens on Internet culture that we four co-editors, our new collaborators, and a few million other people are looking through," said Mark Frauenfelder Mark Frauenfelder is a weblogger, illustrator, and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine and co-editor of the collaborative weblog Boing Boing. He, along with Carla Sinclair, founded the bOING bOING print zine in 1988. , Boing Boing founder and co-editor. "With our first ever site re-design today, we hope to offer our audience a clearer, broader lens on the wonders of the Web." Boing Boing Gadgets will feature a daily stream of reviews on consumer electronics, games, and related geek A technically oriented person. It has typically implied a "nerdy" or "weird" personality, someone with limited social skills who likes to tinker with scientific or high-tech projects. The origin of the term dates back to the late 1800s. gear. Led by veteran gadget-blogger Joel Johnson For the American politician and surgeon from Nebraska, see Joel T. Johnson Joel Johnson is an American businessman and former White House Senior Advisor. He is currently a partner with the Glover Park Group. , Gadgets.BoingBoing.net will also include contributions from BoingBoing.net's four co-editors: Cory Doctorow, Mark Frauenfelder, Xeni Jardin Xeni Jardin (IPA: [ʃɛniː ʒɑːrdæn]) (born August 5 1972)[1][2] is a journalist and weblogger in the United States. , and David Pescovitz. Johnson, technology writer and former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com, says the idea behind Boing Boing Gadgets is to explore the wonder of new technologies without getting drunk on the hype. "Electronics are a small thing when held up against other human endeavors, but we should do what we can to make them better," explained Johnson. "We can create an electronics industry that wastes less to create better things." Today, Boing Boing also debuts a new system to accommodate reader comments and discussions. "It's been four years since Boing Boing removed a more primitive comment publishing system," said Federated Media founder John Battelle John Linwood Battelle is a journalist as well as founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing[1]. He has been a visiting professor of journalism at UC Berkeley and also maintains Searchblog, a weblog covering search, technology, and media[2]. . "We've worked together to design a new system that makes Boing Boing even more responsive to its community members." Boing Boing's comment threads will be moderated by Teresa Nielsen Hayden Teresa Nielsen Hayden (born March 21, 1956) is an American science fiction editor, fanzine writer, essayist, and teacher. She works for Federated Media Publishing where she edits the newly reopened comment section for the blog BoingBoing[1]. , a science fiction editor who for the last five years has overseen the busy comment threads on her own weblog See blog and Web log. (World-Wide Web) weblog - (Commonly "blog") Any kind of diary published on the World-Wide Web, usually written by an individual (a "blogger") but also by corporate bodies. , Making Light (http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/). Hayden is known throughout the web for her insight on how to effectively manage online communities. "We know Boing Boing's readers want to talk," Nielsen Hayden Nielsen Hayden may refer to:
Visitors to Boing Boing will today also see the first major redesign ever undertaken at the popular site. To rethink the site design, Boing Boing looked to Jemma Hostetler, a designer well-respected in the interactive media worlds for avant garde online experimentation. Hostetler, co-founder of StudioSansNom (www.StudioSansNom.com), focused on updating the typography for improved readability, introducing more intuitive navigation, and rethinking the page format while retaining the clean, white look of classic Boing Boing. Pixel art collective eBoy (http://hello.eboy.com), creators of Boing Boing's iconic Jackhammer Jill mascot, revamped the site's logo. Blog application experts Apperceptive ap·per·cep·tion n. 1. Conscious perception with full awareness. 2. The process of understanding by which newly observed qualities of an object are related to past experience. (http://apperceptive.com/) developed custom plugins for Six Apart's Moveable Type 4 publishing platform. And Federated Media's technical team brought the refreshed design and back-end to life and implemented a slew of new features, demonstrating once again that the company's author services go well beyond securing sponsorships for its partner sites. About Boing Boing Boing Boing attracts more than 2 million unique visitors to its site each month, and has over 3.3 million RSS (Really Simple Syndication) A syndication format that was developed by Netscape in 1999 and became very popular for aggregating updates to blogs and the news sites. RSS has also stood for "Rich Site Summary" and "RDF Site Summary. subscribers. By Comscore's measure, Boing Boing is among the five most-visited blogs on the web. BoingBoing.net launched in 2000, and Technorati's list of most influential blogs -- based on how many other sites link to that blog -- now places Boing Boing at #2. According to Google, more than 600,000 other sites link to Boing Boing. Forbes voted Boing Boing "best of the web" among tech blogs, as did BusinessWeek. AdRants, ad exec veteran Steve Hall's blog, posted an article to the effect that if Boing Boing covers your ad campaign, it's gone viral. 2006 Bloggies winner: Best Group Blog and Lifetime Achievement. 2006 Webby Awards nominee. Named 'Best of the Web 2006' by BusinessWeek. In a 2006 article, The New Yorker described Boing Boing as "a technology blog that is read by geeks the world over." Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/category.jhtml?id=308 BusinessWeek: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/bestof/editorpicks.htm AdRants: http://www.adrants.com/ 2006 Bloggies: http://2006.bloggies.com/ http://www.boingboing.net About Federated Media At FM, we believe great voices attract great audiences. We're in the business of supporting those voices by connecting them to great marketers, as well as providing a suite of services that let authors focus on what they do best: make compelling media. In so doing, we are creating federations of respected voices that prosper on their own terms. Current federations include Sports, Technology, Automotive, Business & Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Momentum, Travel & Leisure and Parenting. For more information, please go to http://www.federatedmedia.net. |
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