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The century-old National Consumers League (NCL) announced today that veteran consumer protection lawyer Sally Greenberg will become its executive director, starting October 1st. For the past 10 years, Greenberg worked as senior attorney at Consumers Union (who publish Consumer Reports), and this week she’s testifying at Senate toy safety hearings. [Washington Post]
After trying his hand at regular posting, we decided we liked Christopher Walters blogging enough to bring him on full-time. Chris will be contributing six posts a weekday. Please join us in giving him a big and hearty welcome to The Consumerist team!
Server issues hamstrung us this morning, preventing any new posts from being made. Our techs worked diligently to solve the problem, but it ended up being a vendor issue beyond our control. The situation seems to have normalized.
Hello to those coming to our site after watching us on ABC’s i-Caught!
In the interest of full disclosure, here are the companies that undermined your editor’s objectivity this month.
In celebration of labor, we’re doing less of it. Half-day of posting today, no posts this weekend or Monday.
A publication wanted a site photo from our press kit and we’re like, uhh, we don’t have a photo. So we went out and Gawker’s resident photog Nikola Tamindzic [nsfw] snapped this one of us yesterday. Full version inside.
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So long, Consumerist readers! The past week has been a blast – We (okay, okay, “I”) posted over 40 different items and learned as much from reading the comment threads as I did from writing the posts. Here are my takeaways from this experience:
Ahhhh…. I’ll be on break and not blogging until I return, August 13th. I haven’t been gone from blogging for this amount of time, well, since I started blogging here at The Consumerist. Much wallowing in the sand will be had.
Chris Walters is a veteran shopper who enjoys being outraged by mismanaged customer service experiences. Why, just last week he was treated rudely by an employee at the Nokia flagship store in midtown Manhattan, but then the store manager swooped in and replaced his malfunctioning headset without further problems, which is why there’s not a post on the Consumerist about Nokia refusing to replace faulty Bluetooth headsets.
We hired Amy Adoyzie to help out with our tagging photos in our Flickr pool, a magical place where readers submit photos for possible use in our posts.
We’ve hired Shannon to help tag our pictures and those in our Flickr pool (which now has 576 members and 7493 photos, wow!). She takes neat photos, loves Flickr, lives in Japan and was recently bitten on her left foot by a spider!
Consumerist.com seeks to add an email slave to its staff. We need someone to help us respond the growing number of letters and complaints that increasingly swell our email box.
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Happy 4th of July! Celebrate your day of independence by shutting of the computer and going outside. Consumerist returns to regular posting tomorrow.
Changing up the layout around here. There may be some little wackiness as it fully comes into being. Let us know what you think of the new look and whether there’s something that needs fixing. P.S. The next button will be coming back sometime later.
Hey, we got in Google News. Thanks to everyone who filled out the petition two weeks ago. Onwards and upwards, excelsior, etcetera. — BEN POPKEN
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New Nested Comments Script
The new site design made YogurtEarl retweak his nested comments script so if you were using and loving it, you will have to download it again. Supports Firefox with GreaseMonkey and Opera with Opera UserJS.