WIL WHEATON dot NET
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WIL WHEATON dot NET (WWDN), also known as wilwheaton.net, is a weblog run by former child star and actor Wil Wheaton. On the site, Wheaton writes stories and anecdotes about things that happen in his day-to-day life. His writings on WWDN have led to a book, Dancing Barefoot (ISBN 0974116009), with a three-book deal from O'Reilly promising another edition of Dancing Barefoot (ISBN 0596006748) and two additional books to follow. Just a Geek (ISBN 059600768X) was released June 2004.
Between 2001 and Fall 2004, Wil operated a message board known as "The Soapbox" or "Paracosm" where people could gather to talk about various subjects including movies, music, books, religion, politics, gaming, geocaching, etc. (and not so much about Wil Wheaton). Over 10,500 people joined the Soapbox community; however a December 2003 purge of inactive accounts dropped that number to about 2,500 active members, of which about 400 were regular daily visitors at the time of closing. The Soapbox users were eventually spun off to a non-Wil-Wheaton run site, at tehsoapbox.net (http://www.tehsoapbox.net/) (sic). The community continues to be well known for being very friendly and nearly flame free. Community members collaborate on many projects for charity: in 2002, the community raised over $17,000 for breast cancer research, and in the spring of 2004 raised over $27,000 to sponsor Wil and his wife Anne on a 26-mile walk to help fund leukemia research. Community members continue to share a community MoBlog.
Wheaton also maintains a photo gallery, a MoBlog, and an AudioBlog.
Wil Wheaton is not affiliated with the websites wilwheaton.org and wilwheaton.com, which are both held by domain name squatters.
External links
- www.WilWheaton.net (http://www.wilwheaton.net/)
- Wil's moblog (http://wilwheaton.buzznet.com/)
- Wil's audioblog (http://wwdnaudblog.blogspot.com/)