From Encyclopedia Dramatica
ED is noticeably more popular than other
unfunny websites.
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:
- Some links may be dead because they are so old.
[edit] May 2005
- Peter Cooper, author of Beginning Ruby, talks about it on his blog.
[edit] June 2005
[edit] January 2006
[edit] April 2006
- ED gets featured in Wikipedia's 'Wikizine'. See Archive.
[edit] May 2006
[edit] August 2006
- A German news article is one of the first to mention the craiglist experiment and links to the ED article.
- The University of Amsterdam blogs about the SlimVirgin article on ED. See Link.
[edit] September 2006
[edit] 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 screen shots 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
[edit] 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.
- 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.
- 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 and a half million readers talks about a scammers who's personal details were put on the website
- NU.nl a popular Dutch news website.
[edit] Blogosphere
[edit] News websites
[edit] March 2007
[edit] July 2007
[edit] November 2007
- A serbian news source mentions ED whilst writing about the Craigslist controversy.[1]
[edit] December 2007
- MyCrimeSpace.com a site that writes crime-related news about MySpace talk about a hoax relating to the Megan Meier article in an article
- Jules Crittenden a Boston Herald city editor and columnist recommends the site on his blog.
[edit] January 2008
[edit] TV news coverage
[edit] February 2008
[edit] March 2008
- LAist a news website about Los Angeles talks about a person who uses the site, Scientology related.[2]
- Gawker links to the Rickroll in an article about rickrolling[3]
[edit] April 2008
- Newteevee cites ED in a blog about Rickrolling.[4]
- 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"[5]
- The University Register of the Univ of Minnesota cites ED in reference to Chanology [6]
[edit] May 2008
- Ninemsn does an article explicitly about ED itself. [7] Fukken saved.
- Ninemsn links to the Chin-chan in another article - "Chin-Chan", a girl with an unfortunately sunken chin)." [8]
[edit] June 2008
