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11 comments to "New Collaboration: The Neatest Posts on Boing Boing."
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Dave
June 8th, 2007 at
7:39 am
You know, BoingBoing was once the end-all of the blogosphere, but it seems to me they are slipping something terrible these days. I read it on occasion, even though some of the content thoroughly disgusts me, but lately many of the posts they put up I’ve seen already on Neatorama or Mental Floss or others. And it used to be that you could hardly keep up with the posts they put up; now I can go there once a week and not miss a thing (no, I don’t do RSS.)
I think BoingBoing has run its course, in a Saturday Night Live sort of way. They seem to try to push the envelope a bit too much and come out with the crude and gross, trying to pass it off as “wonderful”. And their politics and open-source-everything mentality is just a bit much sometimes. They still have some good content, but…
Or is it just me?
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Jack Hynes
June 8th, 2007 at
8:31 am
Great collection of links, my only thought is that I’m guessing most people who read Neatorama read Boing Boing as well — making this post pointless?
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Miss Cellania
June 8th, 2007 at
10:13 am
Is Boing Boing going to return the favor?
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Ashley
June 8th, 2007 at
12:01 pm
I was wondering the same thing as Jack. I’d assume that the majority of Neatorama readers are also Boing Boing readers. I hate to see wasted space on one of my daily reads!
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greg
June 8th, 2007 at
1:51 pm
haha jesus, jonny depp on a cookie. does neatorama really need more content that bad. if i wanted to read boing boing, id go read boing boing. i don’t need neatorama telling me what the best content is over there, we can all figure it out for ourselves. neatorama is a wonderful blog, but as for a web agrigator ill stick with an rss reader.
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hifidigitalboy
June 8th, 2007 at
1:52 pm
I agree about BoingBoing. They seem to be very self-serving these days. I still read it, but I skip a lot. Especially the stuff about Xeni and her trip to South America.
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Jason
June 8th, 2007 at
1:58 pm
I read BoingBoing for the same reason I read slashdot: habit. I’m still trying to decide if a month of kittah is better or worse than a month of tube maps.
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Jason
June 8th, 2007 at
2:07 pm
I used to read Boing Boing, but the content started to slip so they got put on my RSS list. That way I only read the 1 in 10 posts that are good. Hopefully I will never have to RSS Neatorama because I find all there content interesting.
SIDE NOTE: I am a different Jason then 7
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Alex
June 8th, 2007 at
3:35 pm
It seems that a growing legion of critics is one of the sure signs of success. All large blogs have critics and detractors, and Boing Boing is no exception. Even our beloved lil’ Neatorama has its trolls!
In regards to duplicate content raised by Jack Hynes and Ashley: I read Boing Boing daily (their website, not RSS). There’s actually very little overlap between the two blogs on a daily basis, but that’s a tangent. Anyway, when I did this post, I realized that there were a lot of good posts that I missed!
The Boing Boing gang do a great job of posting a wide variety of subjects, and it’s easy to skip noteworthy posts simply due to the sheer amount of volume. This is a chance to catch up on some of the lighter side of Boing Boing.
In response to Greg: A large amount of Neatorama’s posts are derived from via sources and suggestions - technically, this post is no different. It’s a collection of links via Boing Boing.
I like doing collaborations - for example, Neatorama has a long-standing collaboration with mental_floss and a newer one with Bathroom Reader. In both of these collaborations, Neatorama feature articles that had already been published by these two companies. So, they’re duplicative in nature - but our readers seem to like them very much.
Certainly no one is forcing you to read any of these blogs - and if you don’t like the post, you certainly are welcome to skip it (or complain about it, I suppose.)
About RSS reader (aside): I don’t know how you guys do it - I tried reading blogs from an RSS reader, but got overwhelmed by the process. Maybe I’m old school, but I like to bookmark a lot of blogs (and organize ‘em according to topics). To visit these blogs, I “tab” open ten, twenty of them at once in Firefox.
Finally, I’d like to thank Neatorama’s loyal readers for reading the blog - you guys rock!
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Dan
June 8th, 2007 at
6:20 pm
I concur with the majority of the posts. My BoingBoing and Neatorama buttons are right next to each other on my browser bar. BB posts a lot of stuff and credits finding it to Neatorama.
While they have some overlap, they have very different feels.
As a loyal reader, I’d like to throw my vote in for keeping the two sites separate. -
Ali S.
June 8th, 2007 at
7:25 pm
Brrrrr…that robot was beyond creepy! O_o
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