Michael Kwan is running a contest on his blog, with the prize being a bag full of swag he picked up at two recent conferences. He decided to add a creativity component this time, and came up with a challenge to photoshop John Chow.

Luckily, he isn’t judging this based on skill; but rather on making him laugh.  To this end I put together something during my lunch hour at work that is pretty much a hack job, but will do as my entry.

For those of you not familiar with John Chow, he is a local blogger who decided to moniterize his blog as an experiment and is now one of the experts in the “Make Money Online” realm.  Last month his blog earned $40,125.99.

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Well after winning a few contests, I have to unfortunately say that I did not win the Nintendo Wii being offered by Tanya in celebration of her 10th year of blogging.

I was one of the 20 finalists, and was more than surprised at the number of votes I managed to get, even though I didn’t have time to campaign until it was nearly over.  A big thank you to all of those that took the time to go vote for me.

Congratulations to the winner, Tod Maffin. If that name sounds familiar, he is the National Technology Columnist for the CBC. As part of his campaign, Tod promised that he would attempt to go into a Future Shop and convince them to let him lick a Wii in the store; recording it for us to all see.   I’ll be watching for the results!

I found out that I’m a finalist in a contest to win a Wii!

Problem is, the voting for the winner ends tonight.

And I’m up against much more famous bloggers.

Now I know why I needed to build up my blog readership!

But I do have the support of the people at the Playa.info forum!  In a few hours they’ve managed to boost my votes up from the pathetic 3 I had before I realized I was in this contest!

So if you’d like to help out, please head over to Netchick.ca and vote for me.  The voting is in her right hand side column, and I am #3 Gregg.  I may not win it, but not being at the bottom of the heap will be nice.

And who knows… maybe I can somehow pull it off with everyone’s help….

As an example of a blog contest that requires a post, I’m presenting the newest contest I have come across. Why the newest, and not one from my backlog? Because this contest is being run in celebration of a milestone that deserves a post even if there was no contest involved.

Netchick, aka Tanya, is celebrating her 10 year anniversary of blogging next month!

That’s right, 10 years! When I reached the 10 year mark of just being connected to the internet, that made me an uber-geek. To have actually been blogging for that length of time is truly something special.

To celebrate, Tanya is holding a contest to give away a Nintendo Wii. You can enter one of two ways, the first being to post the above banner on your blog from now until the anniversary date of September 30^th; the other is to make a comment on her contest post that meets certain criteria. As always, visit the blog itself for the exact rules; you can click on the banner above to get to her contest details.

I doubt that Tanya even knows I am a reader of her site; but she holds a spot in my Local Blogs folder in Google Reader, one of the few folders I regularly check out even when life is too busy and I shouldn’t be. As I’ve mentioned before, if I am aware of a Vancouver area blog, I will be checking it out; but it has to be a good local blog to keep me reading. Tanya’s content is a well written collection of local events, personal events and dating stories. What sets her apart from other personal blogs is that even when she is complaining about life events or being single, she manages to come across as a happy person. Hopefully my impression is correct.

So pop on over to enter her blog contest, but do return to read what is going on in this net chick’s life.

Oh, and this would also be a Rebuilding My Blogroll post.

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