Encyclopedia Dramatica:ED in the News
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Encyclopedia Dramatica (ED) is a major and very important Internets website whose Alexa rank sometimes reaches the 1,000~ range, making it among roughly the Top 1,000 Websites on the entire World Wide Web. It is considered a safe site by McAfee. Conservapedia has an article on it. Uncyclopedia has several articles and a category about it too. ED is also the "Best Place to find the Lulz". Don't expect to see an article at Wikipedia on it, their tearful admins won't allow it, but a saved version at Wikitruth can be seen Here. CREATED LOL WUT! ED is known for its biting humor, witty and critical commentary, and all-around greatness. It gets mentioned in the news a lot too:
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- Some links may be dead because they are so old.
2005
June 2005
- The Guardian, a major United Kingdom news magazine, reported on ED's political commentary about the George W. Bush role in the TL;DR on ED.
2006
January 2006
- Bantown claimed responsibility on ED for discovery of a critical LiveJournal hack, as reported by the Washington Post.
April 2006
- ED gets featured in Wikipedia's "Wikizine". See Archive.
May 2006
- The Transcript, a British newspaper, wrote an article criticising the MySpace article on ED, calling it an "long, blunt, vulgar essay"; see Google cache
August 2006
- A German news article is one of the first to mention the craigslist experiment and links to the ED article on the same.
- The University of Amsterdam blogs about the SlimVirgin article on ED (link).
September 2006
TV news coverage
- MSNBC TV - MSNBC, the major and leading cable news network, reported on ED and its role in the RFJason Craigslist Experiment, including screenshots of the website and the URL. Google Video mirror, and YouTube mirror.
- Global TV, a Canadian English language privately owned television network showed clips of the site on their broadcast. YouTube
International news coverage
- The Ottawa Sun referenced ED, quoting the sites take on the evolution of the Emo scene.
- The Toronto Sun also reported on the coverage of that music scene, in a much more expanded article.
- Jason Fortuny
- Der Spiegel, a major German news source, reported on ED and Jason Fortuny.
- La Presse Affaires, a leading Francophone news source, also covered ED and Fortuny.
- The San Francisco Chronicle, a major newspaper in San Francisco describes the incident in detail.
- Maclean's, a Canadian national weekly current affairs magazine with over 2.5 million readers talks about a scammer whose personal details ended up on ED
- NU.nl a popular Dutch news website
Blogosphere
- Boing Boing (post by Xeni Jardin) (link)
- Broowaha (link)
- Good Morning Silicon Valley (link)
- Ten Zen Monkeys - "Webzine" (link)
- Waxy (link)
- Wired Blogs - 27BStroke6: 1, 2
News websites
- Slashdot article
2007
March 2007
- Alternet.org, an award-winning news magazine, links to the John Edwards article on ED in their blog
- 10 Zen Monkeys "Webzine" - again, on John Edwards (link)
July 2007
- New York Times Magazine: The SlimVirgin article gets a mention in a paragraph about Wiki [[drama.
August 2007
The Wall Street Journal links to the I am in your base killing your d00ds page in an article about memes.
November 2007
December 2007
- MyCrimeSpace.com, a site that writes crime-related news about MySpace, talks about a hoax relating to the Megan Meier article in an article
- Jules Crittenden, a Boston Herald editor and columnist, recommends the site on his blog.
2008
January 2008
- Gawker (link)
- Wired magazine (link)
- Lestercavestany.com (link)
- Riight, inc and riight.com. all rights reserved (link)
- MND, one of the top 75 most popular right-of-center websites for 2007 (link)
- Online Opinion is a professional Australian e-journal: "Articles are gathered from a variety of independent sources" (link)
- The Synthesis Magazine blogs about it (link)
- Wikipedos at wikinews (link)
TV News Coverage
- NBC shows a page of ED
(Dead YouTube link).
February 2008
- NewsReview.com publishes their take on the site.
- ED is mentioned in a five page article in a German magazine; see DAS TROLLPARADIES.
March 2008
- LAist, a news website about Los Angeles, talks about a person who uses the site in a Scientology related article (link)
- Gawker links to the Rickroll in an article about Rickrolling (link)
April 2008
- Newteevee cites ED in a blog entry about Rickrolling (link)
- Citypaper.com writes an article about Anonymous/Scientology which refers to ED as: "A humor wiki, Encyclopedia Dramatica, chronicles various internet pranks, raids, and drama" (link)
- The University Register of the University of Minnesota cites ED in reference to Chanology (link)
May 2008
- Ninemsn does an article explicitly about ED itself (link)
- Ninemsn links to the Chin-chan page in another article - "Chin-Chan", a girl with an unfortunately sunken chin)." (link)
June 2008
- The NEWSTATESMAN quotes the lolcats article and links to ED (link)
- Butthurt ex-Wikipedo David Shankbone gets interviewed, where he mentions the Wikicide article on ED; appropriate, as he has committed it over 9000 times (link)
- The Bostonist mentions ED in an Anonymous related article
- The Torontoist quotes and links to the Anonymous page.(link)
- The London Times talks about the relationship between Anonymous and ED (link)
August 2008
- Article in the New York Times Magazine about internet trolls with quite a lot about ED, also printed in the International Herald Tribune
- Someone at scienceblogs.com suffered serious butthurt over the publicity of ED in the New York Times mag and published a blog whining about it here.
- Another person at Reason.com also suffered major butthurt (link)
- Also, MetaFilter and the Wall Street Journal's computer blog (link)
- And someone from The Guardian (link)
- And The Atlantic (link)
- YouTube View Fraud got some media attention after being Article of the Now (link)
- Jason Fortuny is getting attention again: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- A short article from The Standard about how ED needed monies (link)
- San Francisco Weekly (see page 5)
- The American Chronicle mentions ED and Nazism.(link)
September 2008
- YouTube View Fraud gets attention again (link)
- Oprah Winfrey's 9000 penises incident (link)
November 2008
- ED page about a hacker gets linked to by The Register (link)
December 2008
- ED wins a web award (covered at mashable.com)
2009
January 2009
- ED gets linked to in an Israeli article about Anonymous (link; translation)
- ED mentioned in a Wikinews article about Anonymous (link)
February 2009
- ED gets linked to in an LA Weekly Column (link)
March 2009
- The Chattanooga Pulse magazine does an article on memes and links to the X? In My Y? page (link)
April 2009
- ED is mentioned in a leaked government document "2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment" (on Slashdot)
- ED is mentioned along with other sites which are used to cyberstalk internet denizens (link)
May 2009
- Article about how the craigslist troll was sued. (link)
- Part of the Jessica Valenti article is quoted in an interview with the subject (in The Guardian and on u.tv)
- Cracked article cites and quotes multiple ED articles as part of a review of of five wikis other than TOW. link
- Wired article cites and quotes Creepy Chan entry on the wiki. Full details located here.
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October 2009
- The Moonspeak News site SKY.it mentions Encyclopedia Dramatica in their report of Sveltopedia. (translation)
- Marc Randazza, a First Amendment attorney mentions Encyclopedia Dramatica in the Heide Iravani LAW ’09 Brittan Heller defamation case on the Yale Daily News site.
