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Kiplinger Dubs Consumerist "Best Consumer Blog"
By 10.25.07
Kiplinger personal finance magazine named Consumerist.com as “Best Consumer Blog” in their 2007 roundup of the 25 best web sites.
Vote For Consumerist In Best Of The Blogs
By 10.24.07
The Consumerist has been nominated as being one of the best blogs in the world by the readers and jury of Deutsche Welle (think of it as the BBC of Germany). You can help us move up the ranks by voting for us as “Best Weblog – English” here. We’re going up against sites like Patrick.net, TPM Muckacker, and MAKE ZINE: Blog. Right now we’re leading our category with 16% of the vote. You have 23 days left to vote. Let’s bring it home and make it happen!
Take Our Survey, Get Chance To Win $100 Amazon Gift Certificate
By 10.12.07
We’d like to know more about Consumerist readers, and we need your help with this brief 4 question survey. We want to know is you age, gender, income, and educational level. Providing email and name are optional, but doing so ensures entrance in a random drawing for a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate. All of your information will be kept strictly private with data only distributed in anonymous aggregated form, and you won’t receive any email or sales pitches by participating; except for the winner of the drawing who will, of course, receive an email notification and an Amazon gift certificate. The survey takes less than 2 minutes. If you have any questions, please email surveys AT gawker.com. Take survey here.
Intern For Consumerist.com
By 10.10.07
You rock Gmail and Gmail macros. You feel uncomfortable going to bed with an umemptied inbox. You will help sift out the best stories and tips from the tipline.
By 10.7.07
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Looking for a project this weekend that will earn you some cash? We’re going to have a Consumerist eBay Neighborhood Garage Sale tomorrow, so load up your goodies on eBay and then you can link to them in the comments on the announcement post.
By 10.4.07
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Previously, Carey posted a photograph of a Geek Squad car on a sidewalk as if it were some sort of problem. We have informed Carey that this is in fact a Best Buy sidewalk, and it’s done to promote Geek Squad services inside the store. This has been so noted this on the original post, and we’ve encouraged him to get out into the countryside more often. The Consumerist regrets the error.
Meet Your New Associate Editor, Chris Walters!
By 9.10.07
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!
Sorry About Delayed Posts
By 9.6.07
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.
Welcome, i-Caught Viewers
By 9.5.07
Hello to those coming to our site after watching us on ABC’s i-Caught!
Swag Watch: August '07
By 8.31.07
In the interest of full disclosure, here are the companies that undermined your editor’s objectivity this month.
Happy Labor Day
By 8.31.07
In celebration of labor, we’re doing less of it. Half-day of posting today, no posts this weekend or Monday.
Meet Your Editors
By 8.29.07
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.
Getting Foreclosed? We Want To Hear About It
By 8.20.07
Have you or someone you know experienced or are experiencing foreclosure? The Consumerist is interested in interviewing people who are losing their house. Please send an email, subject line “foreclosure” with your contact information and the best time to reach you at tips@consumerist.com.
Things I Have Learned From The Consumerist
By 8.13.07
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:
Ben Is On Vacation
By 7.27.07
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.
Introducing Commenters Moderator ACAMBRAS
We’re pleased to introduce long-time commenter ACAMBRAS as your new comments moderator!