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striking Hollywood writer? (or just in L.A.) reddit would like to buy you a drink

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Sure, we know what the effect of these drankkit meetups has been on traffic, but it's also been a great chance to meet redditors (and give them free beer!)

Now that we're going to be in L.A., we know there are a bunch of striking Hollywood writers wandering around in need of a drink. Our alien would be picketing with you, but its contract bars it from any union-related activity. That said, we'd like to give you some beer.

So if you're a striking writer, or a redditor in L.A. (or both!) bring some friends and come out to Hollywood this Thursday. Maybe if the night goes really well, we can create a follow-up movie to the DailyShow's and ColbertReport's analyses.

Thursday, Nov. 29th
open bar from 7-9pm @ The Well
6255 W Sunset Blvd, Ste 115, Los Angeles, CA (map)

feeling facebook-y?

posted by alexis [kn0thing]

giuliani's google ads

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Already a #1 story and falling off the hot page, the damage has already been done -- so this did seem rather moot -- but Google demanded that we remove the link to the Giuliani search results as it was encouraging people to engage in clickfraud (pointing out the violation of both our User Agreement and their ToS).

You can still find the permalink, we've just "cooled it off." It was a clever submission, but unethical nonetheless.

Granted, since it already was off the top 25, this may have gone unnoticed -- I just wanted you to hear this explanation from me first.

*updated

posted by alexis [kn0thing]

help me, redditors; you're my only hope

Monday, November 05, 2007

That's probably what our alien mascot would be telling you right now, if it had stored a message inside a droid onboard Tantive IV.

We had a fantastic time out in New York for our NY reddit meetup, but something was terribly wrong by the end of the night. For the last few days, we'd been taking around a reddit alien bobblehead and photographing it "traveling garden gnome" style. Only this alien could obviously thrash any gnome -- even a gnomish wizard.

Anyway, I had left it sitting on top of the beer taps and noticed it every now and then throughout the night. But with so many people moving in and out (it really was packed tight -- sorry about that) we all lost track of it. And at around 1am, as I prepared to leave, the alien was gone.

I've already done the obvious thing and placed a Craigslist ad, but I'm counting on the community to track this alien down (I've even created a "lost alien" poster to help you canvas your neighborhoods).

There really is only one in existence. We were planning on blowing it up at the end of the tour anyway, but now we'll have to photoshop all the rest of those travel photos.

...unless it turns up somewhere. If you know the whereabouts of this bobblehead, you don't even need to send it back to us, just keep taking photos of it in random places (and put them online). I think that's what the alien would have wanted.

We're also heading to Toronto, Detroit, and Chicago this week (drankkit updated!) if you'd like to have a few free drinks and mourn the loss of our mascot along with us.

TORONTO - mon. november 5th

(no rsvp) open bar from 7-9pm @ Madison Avenue Pub

14 Madison Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5R, Canada! (map)

DETROIT - tue. november 6th

(no rsvp) open bar from 7-9pm @ The Town Pump

100 W Montcalm St, Detroit, MI 48201 (map)

CHICAGO - thu. november 8th

(no rsvp) open bar from 7-9pm @ English

444 N. La Salle St, Chicago, IL 60610 (map)

posted by alexis [kn0thing]

reddit would like to buy you a drink, new york

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

San Francisco was a success. We hope our homecoming in Boston tomorrow will go smoothly (Steve doesn't have a costume yet - so messages him with suggestions or he'll end up as "man in a hat"). I really ought to announce our upcoming visit to New York.

It's happening this Saturday, November 3rd from 7pm to... umm... well... last call.

The place is Hanger Bar and it's on East 3rd between Ave B and C.

RSVP if you want via MyPunchbowl, facebook, or yelp.

Bonus! We'll have a karaoke system -- not for singing, thankfully -- to do a little Q&A with team reddit. It will happen a couple hours into the drinking for maximum hilarity. If you can't make it to NY, I'm sure you'll find the highlights on YouTube.

Bonus bonus!! We did such a good job with the Valleywag-bait last time, I'm trying for some Gawker-bait. The lovely Julia Allison is not only a reddit fan, she's also been invited.

posted by alexis [kn0thing]

reddit would like to buy you a drink, boston

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

We're coming home for Halloween (keep tabs on the tour via drankkit.com).

Steve and I started reddit in a summer sublet in Medford. Sixteen months later, we weren't living much further away, but right in the center of the incomparable Davis Square. Now we shall return (really, the bar is just a short stagger from our old apartment) and we'd like you all to join us.

We still haven't gotten those ponies, so it looks like Wired is giving us another open bar on exactly the 1 year anniversary of our acquisition.

If you've finished carving your pumpkin and got some time on October 31, the open bar will run from 7pm to 9pm at The Burren. (Need a costume?) Just leave the bowl of candy outside your door with a guilt-tripping note and step out for a few drinks. I know we've given away drinks in Boston before, but this time it's beer!

Grab a nametag when you show up; you'll need one so bartenders know you're there for the reddit event and thus get free booze. It will also allow us to address one another as our usernames and avoid other formalities of normal human interaction.

You don't need to RSVP, but if you're hankering to add your name to the guest list, please use MyPunchbowl (because evite still sucks). We're also on facebook, yelp, and going -- we're that damn Web 2.0.

Think of it as another chance to interact with your fellow redditors in an ultra realistic environment known as real life. Besides, we'd like to meet you (and reunite with the rest of you) and send you all off trick-or-treating with a nice buzz.

Plus, I think I'll have completed my paper mâché reddit alien costume by then...

posted by alexis [kn0thing]

draw the alien, get 24hrs of quasi-fame

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Inspired by a 4-year-old's drawing of the reddit alien, I'd like to let you draw this coming week's reddit logos.

I'd initially said we'd publish the first 5 we got, but then realized it'd only encourage haste and not cool design. So keep the submissions coming, the four of us on team reddit will be choosing the logos for the 22nd to the 26th. We've already gotten some pretty wild submissions.

Oh, and don't hesitate to doodle if you don't think you have the "skillz," the alien is just a bunch of ellipses anyway. Besides, a 4-year-old can do it.

Once you've got these basic requests met, send me your logo:

120x40px .png file
the word "reddit" should be visible
creature vaguely resembling the reddit alien
brief description for me to post along with your personal shout-outs and/or self-promotion (this could be a good way to pimp your startup)

Happy doodling!

posted by alexis [kn0thing]

reddit status update, part II

Thursday, October 18, 2007

With the rewrite, we were hoping to include an upgraded search, which, unlike the last version, was actually useful and helped you find what you were looking for. Unfortunately, the version we settled on didn't quite load test as nicely as we would have liked (<cough>memory leak</cough>), and has been down for most of the week. A new version should be ready in a few days.

Also, for those of you who are "load comments" anti-fans, we promise we aren't ignoring you. We're working on some upgrades and new layouts for comments that, no doubt, will make some other group of our users completely and unabashedly unhappy.

Thanks for bearing with us for the last week, and, as always, keep the bug reports and constructive criticism coming.

posted by Chris [KeyserSosa]