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Consumerist Nominated For 3 Bloggies – Vote Now
By 1.24.08
Thanks to your helpful votes, we’ve become finalists for three Bloggies: Best Topical Weblog, Best Group Weblog, and Weblog of the Year. Hooray! Now we need more of your votes to seal the deal. Head on over to 2008.bloggies.com and if you think we are deserving, select the little buttons under our names for the various categories. If we win, it will be a sure sign that America is “taking The Consumerist seriously.” Oh, and cats – If we win, on the day that it’s announced, all the post during that day will be illustrated with cat-based photos. Voting closes on January 31st.
In Honor Of Martin Luther King
By 1.21.08
In remembrance of MLK’s birthday, our overlords have given us a half-day today, so there will be half-day’s worth of posts.
Nominate Consumerist For Bloggies
By 1.9.08
It’s time to nominate blogs for the 2008 Bloggies, which awards the best blogs on the planet, and darnit, we think should at least have the honor of being nominated. If you agree, head over to 2008.bloggies.com and submit our name under one of the categories. Something like Best American Weblog, Best Topical Weblog, or Best Group Weblog might be fitting. It’s mainly for bragging rights but there’s a possibility we could win 2,007 cents, which we pledge to only use to buy all the site editors burgers.
Happy New Year's Eve
By 12.31.07
Wow, has another year really gone by? By all appearances, the answer is yes. Here’s wishing you and yours a happy and a merry. Half-day of posts today, tomorrow is off, and then we’re back in action on January 2nd.
Happy Holidays
By 12.24.07
Half-day of posting today, and no posts tomorrow. Ben Popken is off for the rest of the week afterwards, with Carey Greenberg-Berger, and Chris Walters picking up the slack. From all of us at The Consumerist, Merry Christmas.
Gawker Tshirt Shop Liquidation Sale
By 12.12.07
We’re liquidating the Gawker Tshirt Shop and all shirts are on sale for $17.99, down from $20 (yes, we know, Gawker is taking a cue from the CompUSA handbook. The liquidation company sets the prices! ::ducks). That means it’s your last chance to get The Consumerist “My Call Is important To You” before it becomes a valuable collector’s item and we post confessions from people who scalp it on eBay. A perfect gift for the consumer avenger in your life, even if that person is just you. Retailers will quake in fear when you stride up to the counter in this hot baby blue number. Printed on American Apparel so you’ll probably want to get one size larger than you normally do.
Florida's SunPass Toll Free Number Is NOT 1-800-SUNPASS
By 12.12.07
Sometimes you need to call a company or government service and you guess at the toll free number. “SunPass” seems like a gimme—it’s got the right number of letters, it’s two words, and they’re even broken into groups of 3 and 4 just like a phone number. It’s a no brainer! But it’s also a sex line number, which a reader’s friend realized last week when she tried to get some information about Florida DOT’s prepaid toll program. The real number for SunPass is 1-888-TOLL-FLA.
By 11.24.07
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No posts today or tomorrow as Carey takes his Thanksgiving respite.
Didn't Win BOBs
By 11.23.07
Oh, by the way, we didn’t win that Deutsche-Welle Best of The Blogs contest. We got third for our category. We probably could have finished stronger if I had done another post about voting for us, but I couldn’t get excited about trying to beat a blog that was all about helping people in the deaf activist community. Come on everybody, let’s beat the deaf people! Didn’t sit right. Plus, the voting site got hacked. Oh well, there’s always the Rhode Island blog awards… [The BOBS]
Happy Thanksgiving
By 11.22.07
The Consumerist will take a break from posting on Thursday, in celebration of Thanksgiving. Friday will be a half-day of posting. Enjoy your turkey and your families. From all of us at Consumerist, gobble, gobble.
Read Consumerist In RSS
By 11.20.07
It’s easy to follow The Consumerist in your favorite RSS Reader. Here are the magic links to paste in:
Announcing New Comment Features!
By 11.20.07
As a commenter on Consumerist.com, you now have some awesome new powers. Let’s check ’em out!
7 Days Left To Vote For Consumerist In Best Of The Blogs
By 11.12.07
Sound the klaxons, there’s scant seven days left to vote for Consumerist as being one of the best blogs in the world. We’re up for Best Weblog – English. The contest is run by the industrious people of behind Deutsche-Welle, the BBC of Germany. Winners get fabulous prizes and even more important, bragging rights. We’re much too modest to actually use those rights, but it’s nice to have them in reserve. Vote here.
Vote For Gizmodo For Best Technology Blog
By 11.8.07
Our brother blog Gizmodo is in the running for Best Technology Blog in the 2007 Weblog Awards, neck and neck with Engadget. Do you really want an AOL-owned blog to win? Gizmodo breaks all sorts of cool technology news hot and fast and is always a fun read. We know you like clicking buttons so go over here and click the one next to Gizmodo. Apparently if you don’t they won’t let these kittens out of their cups. Voting ends today.
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By 11.8.07
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How To Do Neato Formatting In Comments
By 11.8.07
Here’s a primer on how you can bold, italicize, hyperlink and blockquote in The Consumerist (or any Gawker blog) comments.
How To Register For Comments
Some of the protocols for registering for new comments on The Consumerist have changed. Also, there’s was a bug that was preventing people from registering since the new layout changed and it’s been fixed. Here’s a quick guide to how the commenting works.