What is up with Boing Boing ?

I have seen a complete clone of this very popular blog, i am not sure why would they do like this, or maybe there is someone who has copied it.

Original
http://boingboing.net/

Clone

http://boingboing.hexten.net/

 

Definitely a duplicate with the same name! (how silly is that!) you sure they're not owned by the same person?

 

even if it was from same person, why would they create duplicate content

 

Ironic thing is to prevent a duplicate account.. I know when I have an idea/name I register it at wordpress, and blogger, etc

 

well, that is strange, could it be for link popularity?

 

I don't think so, that would not be a good way to get backlinks.. through an exact duplicate of the site you're trying to promote..

 

the original is famous all right! PR8
but then the dupilicate on is PR6, i thought google hates duplicate content!

perhaps the owner created that themselves, some people like to have a blogger version of the blogs or sites!

 

I also don't see the reason for this but whatever it is, it sure did pay off. (I think)

--Joe

 

Andy is running boingboing through a proxy server he hosts at hexten. There are actually hundreds of these setup for boingboing, since many employers block access to boingboing at work. Boingboing (and boingboing's founder, Mark) encourages this:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/14/distributed_boingboi.html

Hope this clears things up,
Anita

 

this is strange, but we can believe this story

 

lol those stacking obelisk chairs are awesome!