Boing Boing Museum
Posted by: Loren Coleman on October 8th, 2007
Boing Boing is the big boy and girl on the block in blogging, there’s no two ways about it.
In an article in today’s New York Times entitled “Nerd Chic Arrives on TV” by David Carr, it is noted that Boing Boing is expanding to television broadcasts via the internet, spurred on by the talented Xeni Jardin.
But what Boing Boing, created by Mark Frauenfelder, does just with their blog is already rather amazing. According to that article: “Boing Boing has become one of the five most visited blogs on the Web, according to Comscore, with a monthly traffic of about 7.5 million page views a month. According to Google, more than 600,000 sites link to the site, making it a maypole for technologists around the world.”
Now that’s major and magical impact, if you ask me. It is therefore nice to have friends at Boing Boing, and I wanted to mention and thank David Pescovitz for his fantastic presentation today on the International Cryptozoology Museum story.
Pescovitz does a wonderful job of introducing the story with this: “Our pal Loren Coleman’s Portland, Maine home-office doubles as the International Cryptozoology Museum, a literal cabinet of curiosities devoted to ‘hidden animals’ and oddities related to his Fortean passions. The Lewiston Sun Journal’s Kathryn Skelton paid a visit to the museum and documented the experience with a wonderful article, photos, and audio clips.”
Boing Boing, an adventure on the web, gets to the point and shares the first wave of tomorrow. It’s great cryptozoology can be in their mix too.
I know this is a love fest, but, hey, friends need to be appreciated too.
(Photo by Amber Waterman.)
More on the International Cryptozoology Museum can be found here and here.
wow look at that coelecanth! Where’d you get that?!
See, Loren? You are appreciated! I love that coelecanth too!
Hey all,
BoingBoing.net is definitely one of my favourite blogs along with Cryptomundo.com. I think there has been an excellent resurgence of interest in Cryptozoology on the net lately thanks in part to these two blogs.
The post also links to Loren’s museum page where he mentions that the coelacanth is a 57-inch replica by Fintastic Fish Mounts.