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BOG - The Residents Official News Blog (informally known as the BOG; originally titled The Residents Official News Blog and Website Wrapper, and later, The Residents Official News Blog and <the residents blog>) was an official news blog dedicated to the activities of The Residents, maintained by Big Brother of The Cryptic Corporation beginning in August 2003.

During the years it was active, the BOG was The Residents' primary means of communication, and detailed the release and touring cycles of many of their popular albums from this period, including Demons Dance Alone, Animal Lover and The Bunny Boy.

The traditional news blog closed around the start of September 2010, following a website redesign which integrated the website's news section into the chat room and replaced the blog format with updates in undated bullet points. This section of the website, originally titled The Residents News and Chat Room or Residents Headline News, once again was briefly titled "BOG" from 2013 until the section was replaced with an XML news feed in September 2014, following another redesign of the website.

Following yet another redesign in January 2017, residents.com resumed a news blog, with the advent of the News Machine section, which has continued into the present day.

History[]

The Residents' Official News Blog (or "BOG")[]

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"BOG" header logo, September 2005 - April 2007

The BOG (in its various guises) functioned as the primary online presence of The Residents and The Cryptic Corporation, beginning in August 2003 when the group acquired the residents.com domain name from fan James "tzoq" Redekop, administrator of the now-defunct fan website RZWeb.[1] The blog was maintained by the site's administrator Will Rothers, who wrote the blog under the pseudonym Big Brother.

The BOG continued officially until the redesign of the website in April 2008, although despite these changes (and the installation of new blog software following a crash) the website would feature a news blog on its home page for some time afterward, which was still occasionally referred to informally as the BOG.

After the redesign and expansion of the website (and installation of new blog software following a crash), the blog was simply titled "<the residents blog>" (according to the website header of the site's main page).

Format change and integration with chat room[]

Following another redesign around September 2010, the format of The Residents' home page was changed, with webmaster Big Brother instead merging news updates with the website's chat room. Unlike the earlier news blog, news updates on the revised website initially did not include dates or timestamps, instead being comprised of "headlines" in short bullet points under the banner "Residents Headline News".

The news section was later expanded to include both the bullet point "headlines" alongside more detailed news updates in early 2011. Beginning in 2013, the title "BOG" was once again applied to the section. Originally, the section also featured the most recent updates from Mama Ralph's official Twitter feed; later it featured the most recent posts from the Residents review blog by independent music collector and diarist "Grandpa Gio". The chat room was moved to a separate area of the website in early 2013, and then merged back into the news page the following year.

This version of the news feature was removed and replaced by an XML feed in September 2014, following another redesign of the website. The XML feed was itself succeeded by another news blog, The Residents' News Machine, following a further redesign of the website in January 2017.

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Official News Blog and Website Wrapper (August 2003 - March 2004)[]

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Official News BOG (March 2004 - April 2007)[]

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Official News Blog (April 2007 - April 2008)[]

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The Residents Blog (April 2008 - August 2010)[]

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The Residents News and Chat Room (September 2010 - March 2013)[]

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Residents.com news (aka BOG) (March 2013 - August 2014)[]

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External links and references[]

  1. ↑ Big Brother, "RZWEB has a new address.", The Residents' Official News Blog and Website Wrapper, August 28th 2003
Bog-2013-header The Residents' Official News BOG
(2003-2014)

Official News Blog and Website Wrapper (August 2003 - February 2004)
August 2003 · September 2003 · October 2003 · November 2003 · December 2003 · January 2004 · February 2004

Official News BOG (March 2004 - April 2007)
March 2004 · April 2004 · May 2004 · June 2004 · July 2004 · August 2004 · September 2004 · October 2004 · November 2004 · December 2004 · January 2005 · February 2005 · March 2005 · April 2005 · May 2005 · June 2005 · July 2005 · August 2005 · September 2005 · October 2005 · November 2005 · December 2005 · January 2006 · February 2006 · March 2006 · April 2006 · May 2006 · June 2006 · July 2006 · August 2006 · September 2006 · October 2006 · November 2006 · December 2006 · January 2007 · February 2007 · March 2007 · April 2007

Official News Blog (May 2007 - March 2008)
May 2007 · June 2007 · July 2007 · August 2007 · September 2007 · October 2007 · November 2007 · December 2007 · January 2008 · February 2008 · March 2008

The Residents Blog (April 2008 - August 2010)
April 2008 · May 2008 · June 2008 · July 2008 · August 2008 · September 2008 · October 2008 · November 2008 · December 2008 · January 2009 · February 2009 · June 2009 · July 2009 · August 2009 · September 2009 · October 2009 · January 2010 · February 2010 · March 2010 · April 2010 · July 2010 · August 2010

residents.com news (September 2010 - September 2014)
September 2010 · October 2010 · November 2010 · December 2010 · January 2011 · February 2011 · March 2011 · April 2011 · June 2011 · July 2011 · August 2011 · September 2011 · October 2011 · November 2011 · December 2011 · January 2012 · February 2012 · March 2012 · April 2012 · May 2012 · June 2012 · July 2012 · August 2012 · September 2012 · October 2012 · December 2012 · March 2013 · June 2013 · August 2013 · September 2013 · October 2013 · November 2013 · December 2013 · January 2014 · March 2014 · April 2014 · June 2014 · July 2014 · August 2014

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residents.com · Big Brother · BOGcast · The Residents Historical (The Last Word) · The 12 Days of Brumalia · "Santa Dog 2006" · Summer Tunes · Not-So-Secret Cruel Tunes · News Machine

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