Everyday Hogwash Seeks Blogged Customer Gripes

Posted on January 13, 2006

Everyday Hogwash is a contest presented by Sun Rocket that seeks humorous rants about people's bad experiences with companies. The Hogwash site mentions things like "Hidden fees. really tiny fine print. overbooked airplanes. hypnotic hold music." To enter the contest people need to blog their gripes about a miserable experience with company X and then submit it through the online form. Podcasts and photographs are also accepted as submissions.

How do you jump into the therapeutic fun with the rest of the Everday Hogwash crew? Dig deep into your memories for humorous stories about the way we get treated not-so-nice by companies and then just blog about it (or post about it to your website or whatever other creative outlet you prefer.) Everyday Hogwash doesn't write itself -- we just link together the submissions from all of you.

The contest has daily ($200) and weekly ($1000) winners through March 31, 2006. There will also be a grand prize of $5,000 voted on by the panel of judges. The judges include Busy Mom, Ze Frank, David Lawrence, Eric Olsen, Brian Sack, Chris Pirillo and Dori Smith.

Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion.com was a judge but has decided to back out. Rubel says, "The Everyday Hogwash contest plays into 'online lynch mob' meme that I have been trying to refute. I am going to back out as a judge. It's simply not consistent with how I feel about the overall balance of the blogosphere."