Rob Beschizza

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Rob Beschizza
NationalityAmerican, British
Alma mater Goldsmiths College
OccupationWriter
Known for Boing Boing, txt.fyi
SpouseHeather Beschizza [1]

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]

Beschizza, formerly a technology correspondent and a crime reporter, is a graduate of Goldsmiths College and became a naturalized US citizen in 2015. [18]

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. [19]

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  2. ↑ "Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing". 30 November 2010.
  3. ↑ "How Boing Boing adapted to the social web". 13 May 2019.
  4. ↑ "Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza: "We're not big on cat videos anymore"". The Daily Dot . 4 May 2012.
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