Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza is a British-American writer, artist and journalist, the editor of the culture website Boing Boing[2][3][4] and the founder of txt.fyi, a publishing platform described by Wired as an example of "antisocial media".[5] His works include minimalist video games,[6][7][8][9] short stories, 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]

Rob Beschizza
NationalityAmerican, British
Alma materGoldsmith's College
OccupationWriter
Known forBoing Boing, txt.fyi
Spouse(s)Heather Beschizza[1]
Websitebeschizza.com

Beschizza, formerly a technology correspondent and a crime reporter, is a graduate of Goldsmith's College and became a naturalized US 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]

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".


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