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    Profile: BoingBoing

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    J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

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    Company: BoingBoing

    Launched: January 21. 2000 (as a weblog)

    What is it?

    If you haven’t heard of BoingBoing, you are seriously behind in contemporary Internet culture. It is the number one most linked to blog according to Technorati (link), by a huge margin. It is a must-read every day here at Techcrunch.

    It is a self-described “directory of wonderful things”, and that it is. Topics fluctuate wildly, but common themes include technology/science fiction/intellectual property.

    The Bloggers:

    Site content is written by four people, all of whom are or were at one time writers for Wired magazine as well:

    Mark frauenfelder
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    David Pescovitz
    Xeni Jardin


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    In 2004 John Battelle became involved and the site incorporated as Happy Mutants LLC. Revenue is generated via ads.

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      Bob: I was covering what a VP from MySQL was saying at a Sun conference, this isn’t editorial. I am a big fan of Postgres and will definitely be talking about it

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      Great summary. Just the kind of info that belongs on techcrunchit. Can you post links to more complete coverage?

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      John – we have more coverage, including video, that we will be posting tonight.

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      Tom: so far its not, and they didn’t mention changing the pricing

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