Boing Boing
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Website type | Blog |
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| Owner | Happy Mutants |
| Founders | Carla Sinclair, Mark Frauenfelder |
| Editors | Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, Rob Beschizza, Carla Sinclair |
| Key people | Jason Weisberger, Cory Doctorow (until January 2020), Xeni Jardin (until February 2021) |
| Website | boingboing |
| Commercial | Yes |
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One report named Boing Boing as the most popular blog in the world until 2006, when Chinese-language blogs became popular; it remained among the most widely linked and cited blogs into the 2010s.