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Meet Guest Bloggers Carrie McLaren And Jason Torchinsky Of Ad Nauseam And StayFree
I'm stoked that Carrie McLaren and Jason Torchinsky, co-editors of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture (which I blurbed, my first blurb!), will be guest-blogging, tag-team style, with us this week and next. Carrie was editor of the awesome Stay Free! Magazine, which alternately skewered and threw cream pies at our marketing-drenched society. Jason is an artist who also writes for the Onion News Network, but just for sport. Please give them a warm welcome and enjoy the show.
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Looking To Interview Truth-In-Advertising Lawyer
Are you a lawyer with experience and knowledge of truth-in-advertising litigation? Or know someone who is? I'm looking to interview such a person for an article with a deceptive marketing hook. Email me at ben@consumerist.com, subject line, "lawyer." -
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Intern For Consumers Union In Austin
No, you're not seeing double! In addition to the Intern positions we posted last month, Consumers Union — the publisher of The Consumerist and Consumer Reports — is looking to fill another position in its Austin, TX, office. This is a part-time, year-long web-development internship. Responsibilities will include uploading content, and working on database upgrades. Applicants should live in the Austin area. Apply here. (Photo: treasuresthouhast) -
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Try Consumer Reports Online For Free
Try ConsumerReports.org free for 30 days. Get access to Consumer Reports exclusive and unbiased full product ratings and reviews, expert recommendations and interactive features, and become the most-informed shopper on the block.
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Want to learn more about the Obama administration's new cybersecurity plans? @JeffreyFox of Consumer Reports is live-tweeting the press conference now. [Twitter]
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Intern for Consumers Union in Austin
Apply now for a great internship with Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumerist and Consumer Reports. This is a part-time, year-long internship with the Share Your Story team, based in CU's Austin, TX, office. Responsibilities will include reading through stories submitted by consumers, writing case studies for CU sites, and helping to identify ways to solve consumer problems. Applicants should live in the Austin area. Apply here. More » -
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Donation Drive Raises $8,292.04
Thank you everyone who contributed to donatetoconsumerist.com! Together we raised $8,292.04 for Consumerist. Thank you for your awesome show of support. The monies raised will go to help defray the costs of writers' salaries, servers and legal costs for the site. Now, as promised as a sort of cherry on top of this whole endeavor, stay tuned for the Consumer Reports Snuggie test video... (Photo: Kila (kee-la)) -
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Get Emailed About Comment Replies
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Consumerist/Consumer Reports Panel/Party Went Well
Our panel discussion last night was a huge success, and seemed to be enjoyed by all. For those of you who sadly could not attend, please enjoy these two fine write-ups of the event from FishbowlNY and the Wall Street Journal. To get an idea of what was said, here's some folks who were Twittering the event using #CR as the hashtag. We'll post video of the panel later. We'd also like to thank all the readers who made it out to Manhattan to say hello. It was nice to put some faces to log-ins.
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Drink With Consumerist In DC
Ben and Meg have finished their interview with Austan Goolsbee and we are now heading to Recessions to drink cheap beers in big mugs. Come join us! (Photo: Jeremy Brooks) -
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You're Invited To A Consumerist Panel Party
Consumer Reports and Consumerist are hosting a panel on how online media is making a difference for consumers. Panelists include myself, Ben Popken, Craig Newmark, Rachel Sklar, and Bob Sullivan. Moderated by Kevin Mckean, VP and Editorial Director of Consumer Reports. Come and meet some of the Consumerist gang, get a free drink, hear some media folks jaw, that sort of thing. Tuesday, May 19, 6-8pm, NY, NY. Hit rsvp@consumerist.com for location (it's downtown) and complimentary cocktail. Space limited to first 125 respondents. Fancy invite, inside:
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Consumerist Starts Taking It Seriously?
Why so serious? Can all these companies really be taking all of these incidents as seriously as they say? Or is "taking it seriously" really just "disaster ketchup," an all-purpose phrase you can toss on any situation and mask the underlying bad taste it leaves in your mouth? We have no idea, we just know that as long as companies keep messing up, "taking it seriously" will still be with us. However, we have our own policy about "taking it seriously" on Consumerist, which you'll have to watch this video of me inside the Consumers Union anechoic testing chamber to find out. And if it's a policy you agree with, shove some bucks in our tipjar at donatetoconsumerist.com.
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For a while today, messages sent to tips@consumerist.com bounced. The problem has been fixed. If your tip bounced, please send it again. Or send an entirely new one; we won't know the difference.
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Meg & Ben Dance-Fight The Shaky Machine
Ain't no party like a shaky-machine party! Meg and I were cruising through the halls of Consumers Union, sporting our awesome lab coats, and then we came across this thing. It's a machine whose whole purpose is to shake. Oh, and tap. That's not a bad way to go through life. We tried to communicate with it through the universal language of dance. Not sure if what we were saying came out right, we were trying to tell it it should visit donatetoconsumerist.com and toss a few bucks in our tipjar, but I think what came out is that we all agreed to go on a bicycle tour of Europe together this summer.
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Answering Some Of Your Tip Jar Questions
I've noticed a few recurring questions and themes in the donatetoconsumerist.com tip jar comments, so I'm going to take my best crack at answering them. More » -
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EAT MANGURT
Sorry guys, you just didn't donate enough. Our tipjar, Donatetoconsumerist.com, has raised $5,639.67 so far with 392 donors. In these tough times, that doesn't cut the mustard. We're going to have to start taking sucking down some payola. We've already signed our first sponsor: MANGURT. More » -
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$4,334.86 Raised, Ben Eager To Test Snuggie
280 people have donated $4,334.86 to The Consumerist tip jar so far, hootie-hoo. The average donation is $15.48, which surprises me because I ask, "don't people know you can give as little as two bucks? C'mon, just two bucks to spare at donatetoconsumerist.com." But I don't get any response back because I'm still locked inside the Consumer Reports anechoic chamber and there's no echo. The odd shape of the sound baffling has ceased to baffle me. Instead, it has become my friend. There's just one thought on my mind. Well, two, really. Firstly, how do I escape. Lastly, I can't wait to get Consumer Reports to test the Snuggie!
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