Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza
Portrait of Rob Beschizza
Beschizza, undated
Nationality American, British
Alma mater Goldsmith's College
Occupation Writer
Known for Boing Boing, txt.fyi
Spouse(s) Heather Beschizza[1]
Website beschizza.com

Rob Beschizza is a British-American writer, artist and journalist, the editor of the Weblog Award-winning culture website Boing Boing[2][3][4] and the founder of txt.fyi, a publishing platform described by Wired Magazine as an example of "antisocial media.[5]" His works include minimalist video games,[6][7][8][9] short stories and generative software that produces psychedelic art,[10] wine descriptions,[11] and journalistic euphemisms,[12][13] among other subjects.[14] Beschizza has appeared as a news commentator on television networks including NBC, CNN and Al Jazeera.[15][16][17][18]

Beschizza, formerly a technology correspondent and a crime reporter, is a graduate of Goldsmith's College and became a naturalized U.S. Citizen in 2015.[19]

In 2014, Beschizza produced an unauthorized edit of David Lynch's 1984 motion picture Dune with the dialogue systematically removed, which was itself taken down after a copyright claim.[20]

In 2017, Ars Technica reported that web domains containing Beschizza's name, among others, were being squatted by former pharmaceutical executive and convicted felon Martin Shkreli, who demanded and was refused $12,000 for their release.[21]

References

  1. ↑ "Swiffer Ad Uses Rosie The Riveter To Encourage Women To Clean The Kitchen".
  2. ↑ "Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing".
  3. ↑ "How Boing Boing adapted to the social web".
  4. ↑ "Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza: "We're not big on cat videos anymore"".
  5. ↑ "This Stripped-Down Blogging Tool Exemplifies Antisocial Media".
  6. ↑ "Half-Half-Half-Half-Half-Elves: TinyHack".
  7. ↑ "Surely this is the smallest adventure game in the world".
  8. ↑ "Best Free Games of the Week".
  9. ↑ "Dying Bit By Bit: A Compilation Of Retro Video Game Deaths".
  10. ↑ "The Psygnosis generator will remind you how great game box art can be".
  11. ↑ "Every Audiophile Review Ever".
  12. ↑ "'New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator' Introduced By BoingBoing".
  13. ↑ "How a BoingBoing editor created a "New York Times Torture Euphemism Generator"".
  14. ↑ "White supremacy euphemism generator for struggling journalists".
  15. ↑ "Web Sites Aim to Join Protests While Keeping Their Mojo".
  16. ↑ "Lawmakers withdraw support of anti-piracy bills after online protest".
  17. ↑ "'BoingBoing' editor: SOPA bill 'badly written and open to abuse'".
  18. ↑ "MSNBC: What's at stake with SOPA".
  19. ↑ "British Invader Turned".
  20. ↑ "David Lynch's Dune Improved With No Dialogue".
  21. ↑ "Convicted felon Martin Shkreli finds novel way to be a jerk online".


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