Comments on: New Collaboration: The Neatest Posts on Boing Boing.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:25:19 +0000

Brrrrr…that robot was beyond creepy! O_o

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:20:49 +0000

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.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:35:33 +0000

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!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:07:11 +0000

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

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:58:48 +0000

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.

By: hifidigitalboy

hifidigitalboy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:52:29 +0000

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.

By: greg

greg — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:51:07 +0000

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.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:01:52 +0000

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!

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:13:56 +0000

Is Boing Boing going to return the favor?

By: Jack Hynes

Jack Hynes — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:31:20 +0000

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?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:39:55 +0000

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?