Welcome NY Times Readers, If You’ve Made It This Far

February 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

I was just tipped off - through a comment here - that this site was “kinda” mentioned in “the Times”. Not being able to find any direct mention of Great Family Gadgets, I hunted it down and found that a submission of mine to the Festival of Frugality became their “headline post” (yay!).

Still, I wondered exactly which “Times” referred to this site (there are so many, aren’t there… local ones, etc.) when I saw that the festival site had a welcome message to readers of the New York Times. My mind went “waaah” :shock: as I thought, “THE Times?”

Reading the post, I realized that maybe the reference to my post wasn’t so positive. Off to read Consumers Have Allies on the Web, I realized it wasn’t positive, but it wasn’t horrible.

“Ridiculous”, it calls my recommendation. But as I stated in my post, I’ve had that gadget for more than 10 years. So a $12 gadget to save pennies over more than 10 years (it’s showing no wear, mind you) is not ridiculous. And what it also saved me was time; being able to continue using the product until I was able to get to the store again to buy more of it.

Then I read other parts of the article and realized not much of it actually was positive. I wonder if the author was trying to impress Mr. Denton (Gawker Mediaâ€™s owner - you’ll have to read the article to make the connection) with the “insulting tone” of much of his article.

While reading, I realized I was actually “kind of” listed in the same article as some of my favorite sites, like Lifehacker.com and Make: Blog - woohoo!! So I am “kind of” honored to have been “kind of” listed in the NY Times. I’ll have to go tell all my friends.