It tastes like ADVERTISING! From BoingBoing's parent company, FederatedMedia's, "About Our Authors" page, "Authors who join the FM network of sites hold these values in common":

• Voice and Point of View: Strong voices and intelligent points of view drive robust conversations.

Heh, "conversations"? You mean one-sided, commentless "conversations"? About strong points of view that indicate that a comedian's speech not being covered by the mainstream media is, in fact, all part of a vast conspiracy? That's certainly a strong, intelligent point of view.

• Accuracy: Some FM sites are journalistic in nature; others are not. Regardless, FM sites strive for accuracy regarding items we post as facts.

So which is BoingBoing? And wouldn't a cursory examination of the history of the Star-Spangled Banner result in better accuracy than is exhibited here?

• Community: Weblogs are conversations, not lectures. The community that gathers around each site is the essence of its value, and we treat that community accordingly. We listen and respond to feedback, and incorporate it into the way we manage our sites.

BoingBoing. Reader comments. Nuff said.

• Responsibility: We take our role in the community we serve seriously, and feel responsible for our own words. When we make mistakes, we correct them. We do not seek to use our sites maliciously.

Except when Xeni's pissed, then she grabs a copyrighted photo from my band's site, as indicated in the html/htdb code, itself, and posts it, unattributed and without permission, as an update to her entry about xenisucks.com, along with the assertions that I live in Seattle, which a quick WHOIS would have provided more accurate information, as well as an incorrect spelling of my middle name, and my alleged employer's name?

Or except when Xeni's pissed about her goatse dildo cozy posts resulting in web filtering software marking BoingBoing as NSFW, at which point she feels the need to tell the whole world that a dude that works for the company that makes the web filtering software is a freaky-pervy "adult baby"?

• Transparency: We err on the side of disclosure to our readers. If we have an interest in something we're writing about, we disclose that interest. We are as transparent as we can be about our site's statistics, practices and policies.

I'm not even touching that one. BoingBoing needs a "Who's Friends With Who" chart to keep track of all the proverbial back-scratching self-promotion and nepotism going on.

Mmmm, delicious, delicious hypocrisy.

Therefore I support all of these immigrant rights marches because BUSHITLER is trying to take their rights away!!

I even included links so that students who want to skip school to support illegal immigrants can read their rights! "Dude, you mean I get to skip class? Hell yeah I'm Mexican..."


Today I hax0red the boingboing submission page for Xeni's BoingBoing UI. Take an insightful glimpse into what I found:

Please check all that apply:

Mock civil liberties threatened
ACLU involved
Stupidity regarding knitting
Relating to sex toys.
Contractual obligations (Promotional)
Vapid blogosphere posts
Self-promotional whoring
Shallow cultural awareness

You must meet two or more of the above criteria to submit
Submit to teh BoingBoing:

Will someone please tell these people that slashdot has been dead for years, already? Seriously, any "nerd" worth his weight in NaCL only reads the RSS feed to see what's going on at slashdot. That the comment section isn't exactly riddled with intellectual discourse is only a shock to newbies.

And thanks to Elton John for pointing this one out, as, while I read the rant-in-question, I missed the Xenification of the link.