ChasNote

Boing Boing TV topped the Today’s Top Podcast list for the tech category, meaning — I think — that Boing Boing TV added more new iTunes subscribers today than any other tech program. (I love to see Diggnation and WebbAlert helping to fill out the top ten!)

The press, too, seems to like what they’re seeing.

The Chicago Tribune:

“As a kind of unbound catalog showcasing what’s ingenious, ignoble or otherwise provocative on the Net, Boing Boing is one of the few sites that deserves to be a fixture in the Bookmarks Toolbar…. Despite the confines of the conventional anchor-and-clip format, it still comes close to being the same loose-limbed feat of curation that the blog has been. Now, however, the emphasis is on what can be shown rather than described, on the image rather than the link….. Boing Boing TV is already a winning effort. But given its pedigree and the rich store of material to draw from, expect it to move closer to must-see as it ventures outside of the studio and into new experiments with content generated by site devotees — and as its makers get a better handle on what can and should be done in the confines of a daily Web video segment.”

The LA Times:

“The show … brings an arty, tech-savvy intellectualism to the online TV realm. Seven-year-old BoingBoing has gained its hipster cred by culling from the vast pool of ephemera on the Web the oddest bits that reflect the Internet zeitgeist. Readers flood the e-mail in-boxes of BoingBoing’s co-editors with URLs and ideas, hoping to prompt a post, and each contributor is credited. The video site will eventually incorporate reader input as well.”

The NY Times (reg required):

“Boing Boing is, by some definitions, one of the leading media sites for young technologically aware folks. And that’s a lot of folks. Since going online in 2000 — it began as a paper ‘zine conceived by Mr. Frauenfelder in 1989 — 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…. None of this necessarily spells doom for established media brands, some of which, when you think about it, have done very well on the Web, including CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC. But as platforms become less important and a new audience raised on broadband comes together, seemingly goofy little enterprises like Boing Boing could end up playing very large for their size.”