 The advertising income during the first quarter was already $27,000, and , "Boing Boing" still "makes a nice living for its founders and a handful of contract employees," but it is no longer a member of Battelle's blog network Federated Media Publishing, Inc.

"Boing Boing" featured a "guest blogger" sidebar, then stopped the series in summer of 2004.In 2008, the "guest blogger" series was resumed, with guests posting in the main blog for two-week periods.Guests have included Charles Platt, John Shirley, Mark Dery, Tiffany Lee Brown, Karen Marcelo of Survival Research Laboratories, Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom, Rudy Rucker, Gareth Branwyn, Wiley Wiggins, Jason Scott of textfiles.com, Jessamyn West of librarian.net, journalists Danny O'Brien and Quinn Norton and comedian John Hodgman.