Mark Frauenfelder (born November 22, 1960) is an American

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ger, illustrator, and

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. He was editor-in-chief of the magazine '' MAKE'' and is co-owner of the collaborative weblog ''

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''. Along with his wife, Carla Sinclair, he founded the ''Boing Boing'' print zine in 1988, and he acted as co-editor until the print version folded in 1997. There his work was discovered by

Billy Idol William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Idol achieved fame in the 1970s on the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of Generation X ...

, who consulted Frauenfelder for his ''

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'' album. While designing ''Boing Boing'' and co-editing it with Sinclair, Frauenfelder became an editor at ''

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'' from 1993–1998 and the "Living Online" columnist for ''

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'' magazine from 1998 to 2002. He is the co-editor of ''The Happy Mutant Handbook'' (1995, Riverhead Books), and was the author and illustrator of ''Mad Professor'' (2002, Chronicle Books). He is the author and illustrator of ''World's Worst'' (2005, Chronicle Books) and ''The Computer: An Illustrated History'' (2005, Carlton Books). He is the author of ''Rule the Web: How to Do Anything and Everything on the Internet—Better, Faster, Easier'' (2007, St. Martin's Griffin), and ''Made by Hand'' (2010, Portfolio). He was interviewed on the Colbert Report in March 2007 and in June 2010. On June 21, 2003, Frauenfelder and Sinclair moved from Los Angeles to

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, an island in the South Pacific, where they lived for five months with their two young daughters. Frauenfelder wrote about the experience as a website called ''The Island Chronicles''. Mark currently works at

Institute for the Future The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is a Palo Alto, California, US–based not-for-profit think tank. It was established, in 1968, as a spin-off from the RAND Corporation to help organizations plan for the long-term future, a subject known as ...

as a Research Director.

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Mark Frauenfelder's homepage
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