It is very strange to wake up one morning and discovered you’ve been IP banned from commenting at a site that has a helpful link on every page explaining how to route around such censorship. I’m just hoping they don’t take away my birthday; that might actually be difficult to reclaim.
Tag archives for Boing! Boing!
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As Teresa Nielsen Hayden once noted on her web site, moderation isn’t rocket science. In fact, I’d recommend a nice rule of thumb — watch what ever Hayden does, and then do the exact opposite. I thought I’d seen everything on Boing! Boing!’s discussion forums until I read this thread. Nielsen herself shows up halfway…
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Over at Boing! Boing! gadgets guru John Browlee profiles some awesome looking Lazer Tag guns, but slips in a pretty big factual error in the process, I’m really tempted to pull the trigger on these. I’ve never played LazerTag: I’m an 80s child whose parents unfortunately bought into the whole nightly news scare when the…
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Versionista recently showed up in the top results from del.icio.us, which made me laugh out loud. Versionista monitors web sites and not only alerts you when they change, but also shows you exactly how they changed. Sounds like I’ll switch to that, instead of Google Reader, for surfing Boing! Boing! The Versionista home page highlights…
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Xeni Jardin has a post today about her “unpublishing” of Violet Blue-related posts that caused so much controversy. Go read it now before she decides to take it down. The post is fairly long but doesn’t really say anything beyond reaffirming that their her posts and she’ll take them down if she wants to. In…
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Not to beat up on Boing! Boing!, but what the heck . . . I can’t be the only one who sometimes sees a lot of dissonance between the folks who post on Boing! Boing! For example, Cory Doctorow goes off on global warming “denialists”. Fair enough. I used to be fairly skeptical of global…
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The Boing! Boing! vs. Violet Blue death match at least gives BB fans something to do between Cory Doctorow’s posts plugging his book. For those of you who don’t care about Boing! Boing!, the short version is they had some sort dispute with sex blogger Violet Blue, and about a year ago went through and…
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The last thing that any anti-RIAA activists needed to do was distort what RIAA chief Cary Sherman had to say about the Sony rootkit debacle. And yet both Boing! Boing! and Slashdot have chosen to push completely ridiculous interpretations of a comment Sherman made in response to Sony’s actions. Boing! Boing! claimed that Sherman said…
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Cory Doctorow makes the ridiculous claimthat, . . . shut down the Lokitorrent site (Xeni’s post from yesterday), they hijacked the domain and put up a snotty note that included the phrase “You can click, but you can’t hide.” That follows on Xeni Jardin’s posting yesterday, which quoted reprinted speculation that the MPAA had hijacked…
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I think Boing! Boing! has exactly the right approach to ads in RSS feeds. Their feed has the full text of their blog entries, and they’re putting ads in about 1/3rd of those in the RSS feed. Frankly, I think it’d be perfectly reasonable to put them in each entry. What I can’t stand and…