How to get published at Boing Boing and influence people
I scan Boing Boing, on average, once every three days. And I've come to a conclusion that regular readers of the massively popular culture/technology blog might agree with. Simply: BB posts lots of items devoted to
a.) Legos
and
b.) video game icons.
In fact, a near-surefire way to join Boing's hallowed archives seems to be this: Build something unlikely and/or inordinately time-consuming out of Legos. (Or butter, or cheese, or toothpicks, or circus peanuts, or whatever bizarre medium you can dream up.) The BB editors -- who I really like, by the way -- eat this stuff up. I daresay they're fairly jonesing for it.
If making BB's cut is flatly imperative and you want absolute, unconditional assurance that your effort will be posted, try this: Build a detailed replica of, say, Nintendo's Mario out of an unconventional substance. (I'd recommend Legos, but it's been done.) If 3-D construction isn't your bag, try embroidery; BB is enraptured by "retro" geek-culture icons repurposed for today's cyber-nostalgic milieu.
There you have it -- the Posthuman Blues guide to getting published at Boing Boing. So get to work. Cory Doctorow will thank you.
That said, have you actually tried to submit things?
ReplyDeleteI know that when my husband commented on something on Boing Boing in a way that put a far different perspective on it from what they'd originally written, they not only added his first comment, but also his follow-up (I don't remember what the subject matter was).
Carol,
ReplyDeleteActually, I submitted this very post.