Andy Baio (blogger)

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Andy Baio (born April 22, 1977) is an American technologist and blogger. He is the founder of Upcoming.org, and the author of the Waxy.org blog.

[edit] Media

In 2003, Baio launched Upcoming.org, a collaborative event calendar.^[1] The site was acquired by Yahoo for an undisclosed sum in 2005.^[2] In 2007, Baio announced his departure from Yahoo.^{[3] [4]}.

Baio writes mostly about technology and media on Waxy.org, and publishes a sideblog known as Waxy Links. Baio was one of the first bloggers to draw attention to the Star Wars Kid video, which depicted teenager Ghyslain Raza clumsily emulating martial arts moves for the camera. ^{[5] [6]} He was the first to identify the youth and interview him. ^[7] In response to the negative attention Raza received, Baio later organized a fundraiser for him, raising $4,300 in a week. ^{[8] [9]}

When the parody cartoon House of Cosbys was taken down from its original site due to a cease and desist letter from Bill Cosby's attorney, Baio placed the videos on his own website.^[10] Baio later received a similar cease and desist letter but refused to comply, citing fair use and decrying what he termed "a special kind of discrimination against amateur creators on the Internet", since Cosby had often been parodied in the mainstream media.^[11]

Baio has also written for Wired magazine^[12] and was a staffer on R. U. Sirius' online magazine GettingIt.com.^[13]

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[edit] External links

• Waxy.org main blog
• Waxy Links links selected by Baio, each with a few words of commentary