Boing Boing, an Internet publishing entity, magazine, and group blog
In August 2008, Basenotes was one of 50 websites recommended by Men's Vogue in a best-of-the-web round-up which also featured IMDB, Slashdot, Boing Boing and eLuxury.
In July 2008, New York Times reporter Noam Cohen criticized disemvoweling as a moderation tool, citing a June 2008 dispute about the deletion of all posts on Boing Boing that mentioned sex columnist Violet Blue.
He is regularly featured on Boing Boing TV on Virgin America flights and is also the co-founder of YouTube music collective Cdza.
Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow has written a novel, Makers, which he describes as being "a book about people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet".
The English football team West Bromwich Albion F.C.'s "Boing Boing" crowd chant, is reportedly based on this track.