The day before yesterday, Meteor Blades e-mailed me. "Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse says you volunteered to write a subscription diary."
"Yeah," I wrote back. "But first you gotta watch this video. This is what my husband does at 4:30 in the morning."
Okay, I didn't really say that. Nobody sends MB juggling videos. I just wanted to get your attention.
Now its on to the important stuff: Subscriptions.
Last night I came home, loaded up Daily Kos to look at OPOL's amazing diary (more on that later) and noticed something strange. Something was missing. At first I couldn't place it. Then I realized...
The ads! No more obnoxious Exxon ads!
An anonymous benefactor bought me a lifetime subscription to Daily Kos! Now the absence of ads is nice, but realizing some unknown person out there actually thought of me and bought me a subscription is even nicer. I am the type of person that always buys kids' lottery tickets for everything under the sun and never, ever wins. When I was a kid, I was the last person picked for every softball team. So I was thrilled that an anonymous benefactor thought of me.
Thank you anonymous benefactor! I intend to return the favor by anonymously benefacting someone else tomorrow cause that's when I get paid. And maybe one more time in two weeks.
I hope you all can do the same. Here's what you or your friend get when you subscribe:
* An ad-free experience of the site. Faster loading, no annoying
ads. Ideal for a friend on dial-up.
* Three download e-books will be rolled out this month. Both giver
and receiver of subscriptions will have access to these e-books.
* Unlimited access to upcoming photo organizer -- allowing diarists
to upload photos onto Daily Kos itself, as well as have access to
the Daily Kos editorial team's news photo library. Expected launch
by first quarter 2012.
Now kos won't be selling lifetime subscriptions after December 31, 2011. So this month is an historic opportunity. If you don't pop for one now, you never will. They cost $100 compared to an annual subscription of $40 which must be renewed each year. And the money is being used to hire great bloggers like Mr. Blades to do stuff he likes even better than site moderation! For starters, Mr. Blades will be managing your subscription. If that's not a great reason to subscribe, I don't know what is!
You can subscribe by clicking the link. Or, if you have problems with Paypal as Nurse Kelley diaried so eloquently last night, you can ask for help here.
Monthly subscriptions will no longer be offered although existing ones will be maintained until the end of the month.
You can buy a subscription for yourself or a friend on our
subscription page. If you would like to make a donation to the site,
you can do so on our donations page.
Now, back to OPOL's diary. While you are buying a subscription, there is something else you can do. You can help me increase diversity at Netroots Nation next year by voting two times (once by internet and once by text) for my Pepsi Challenge grant. We are behind the eight ball so we need every single person to vote every single day in December.
Here's what Raven Brooks had to say:
"The key to winning the Pepsi Refresh grant is accumulating daily voters. Netroots Nation has agreed to help us organize to win this grant. Sign up at this link to receive an email once a day providing you links to vote. Once the contest is over, win or lose, the email list will be deleted and your email won't be shared with anyone. So please help us recruit all the daily voters you can, and we can do this."
Many amazing diarists including One Pissed Off Liberal, navajo, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse, Sandy on Signal, eclectablog, Betson08, Denise Oliver Velez, Raven Brooks (NN CEO) and teacherken are helping me to get the word out.
So buy a lifetime subscription to Daily Kos. And while you're at it, subscribe to the Netroots Nation listserve so they can send you links every day to help you vote for our grant.
Just one more silly family video before I go. It's my son playing trombone for the Los Alamos High School Marching Band on a dark, snowy night in the Los Alamos electric light parade. He's the green trombone. He sort of whizzes by.