Randomn3ss

On January 9th Randomn3ss celebrated one year of being online. To help celebrate, a contest was formed based on leaving a comment at your best guess when the 15,000 spam comment would be caught by the anti-spam police. At the time, there were just under 13,000 total spam comments. The prize was a $25 iTunes gift card, given to the person guessing the closest date and time without going over.

At 3:57pm EST, January 31st, the 15,000 spam comment was caught by the software. The closest was Scott, who guessed February 20th, 2:00am. Off by 20 days, he was the closest person, and while he did go over, no one else was anywhere near close nor made a guess in January. I don’t want to drag this contest out any longer so I hope no one is offended.

More contests will come in the future, if you have an idea of how you’d like the next one to be run or would like to sponsor a contest with a prize or service, please use the contact form to get in touch with me.

From one blog linking to another, I found a contest run by Money Blogger where he is giving away a 3rd generation iPod Nano that he reviewed last year.  In order to be entered in the contest I, as a blogger need to write and publish an article, what I am doing now, telling you about his site, already done, and linking you, the reader, to his article announcing the contest where someone can Win an iPod Nano.

If you run a blog, feel free to enter, the rules are pretty simple and Dom will be picking a winner at random on February 8th.  As I’ve done before in similar situations where I’ve entered contests to win stuff, should I win, I will in-turn run a contest here on Randomn3ss to re-gift the Nano to one of my readers.  So wish me luck so that I can hopefully give this away to someone here.

Quick update to the $25 iTunes gift card giveaway that is still going on in celebration of the Randomn3ss 1 year anniversary.

Currently Akismet has captured 14,644 spam comments.  That’s a lot of spam comments in the little more than one year we’ve been writing articles.  The person who guesses closest without going over the date and time that the 15,000 spam comment is left will win the $25 iTunes gift card.  You must read all directions and leave your comment here.

This contest will be over in the next 5-15 days or so, so get a guess in, leave a comment and maybe you win.

Randomn3ss is one year old today, I’m amazed it went by so fast. Big shout-outs go to the fellow staff for contributing so many amazing articles, those who left comments and everyone who reads this on a daily basis.

In honor of this great day, I think a contest is in order and the prize will be a $25 iTunes gift card. Over the last year, Randomn3ss has received 12,980 spam comments to it and counting. I know this because of a plug-in that helps to trap spam comments and keeps a running counter. The monthly average continues to increase as more people read the site and it becomes more popular. This has almost no effect on anything, I just think it is an amazing number. Of those 12k+ spam messages, some of the things I’ve learned are,

• She wants me to be thicker
• In 60 days I could lose 40 pounds
• For $20 I could last 4 hours
• My credit score is amazing
• My help is needed to somewhere for something
• I’m awesome

And those are just the work safe versions of some of the crap people try to peddle in comments. I now would like to introduce you to the non-spam comment contest. The rules:

• Leave a comment on this article with the month, day and time (don’t forget AM or PM) of when you think the 15,000 spam comment will be left.

• One entry per person (IP address will be used to verify).

• Valid email address is needed and will not be published, sold or otherwise given to anyone.

• Must live in the United States - sorry to everyone else. The US dollar blows against your much stronger currency and it could cost a small fortune to mail it anywhere.

• The person who guesses the closest date and time without going over will win the $25 iTunes gift card.

Let the guessing games begin!

Bradly!  Congratulations on winning the Nalgene Refill Not Landfill reusable, refillable bottle.

Thanks to everyone for participating in the contest! Keep tuned for another contest coming up very shortly!

The last time I gave out OiNK invites, it went pretty well, but many of you kept contacting me long after the contest had ended. I gave out the four I had mentioned in the post plus an extra one that I had earned during the time of the contest. This time around, it will be much easier to get one, but I only have one to give out. The early bird gets the OiNK invite this time.

First person to leave a comment on the Win a Nalgene Refill Not Landfill bottle post and this one gets the invite. Make sure you use a valid email address so I can contact you.

Disclaimer, if you don’t know what OiNK is, or how to keep a good seed ratio, don’t bother asking or entering this contest.

Friend and fellow photographer Andrea is giving away a matted and signed nature print of your choosing from her amazing collection of photography as part of raising awareness for Blog Action Day. The contest is super simple to enter, just subscribe to her email newsletter and she will pick someone at random on October 15th. Full details on the contest are here.

If you are in need of a photographer in the Philadelphia area and would like to hire Andrea or to purchase prints of other sizes, please contact her here.

Don’t forget to enter to Win a Nalgene Refill Not Landfill bottle from Randomn3ss!

Randomn3ss is taking part in Blog Action Day, a day where bloggers unite to bring awareness to the environment. In the spirit of the day and the environment, I am giving away a 32oz Nalgene Refill Not Landfill wide mouth bottle, buying that bottle gets a portion of the profits donated to NativeEnergy. “NativeEnergy helps you help build Native American, farmer-owned, community based renewable energy projects that create social, economic, and environmental benefits”

Some more info on the bottle:

Made of super-tough Polycarbonate, with an attached loop-top cap that won’t come loose. The large opening easily accommodates ice cubes, fits most water purifiers and filters, and makes hand-washing a breeze. Dishwasher safe (top rack, please make sure it does not come in contact with heating element).

Made with Polycarbonate. 32 Ounces.

• Extremely durable
• Resistant to staining
• Resistant to retaining odors
• Recommended for “extreme” adventures
• Dishwasher Safe (top rack only)
• Withstands temperatures from -135ºC (-211ºF) to 135ºC (275ºF)
• 32 ounces

How to enter the contest & rules:

Contest runs from now until 12:00pm (noon) EST October 15, 2007. You must be in the lower 48 states in order to receive this prize. You can earn up to four entries for this contest:

1. Subscribe to the email newsletter (on the right side). Simply enter your valid email address, a pop-up box opens and will ask you to enter a random number to verify you are a real person and then a verification is sent to your email. You must open that email and click the link to activate your email subscription. Everyone already subscribed is already entered! This is worth one entry. Email address are associated with IP address, don’t use more than one, it is trackable and you will not only get more entries, you will be disqualified from the contest. This will get you one entry.
2. Make a comment to this thread about how badly you want the bottle, why they have become so popular, or how much you like the site. This is the simplest way to enter and will get you one entry. Be sure to use a valid email address (never visible).
3. Make a post on your own blog, MySpace, LiveJournal, Facebook, Vox or other social network blog that links to this article and a little about Randomn3ss if you like. You can also link to the homepage of Randomn3ss.com, but it must at least link to this article directly. You must have an article on its own, it may not be part of another article. When you have published your article, use the Contact page to send the link, again with your real email address. Please put in the subject line I want a Nalgene bottle. This will get you two entries.

This will give you up to four chances to win the bottle. Around noon on October 15th I will associate all the entries with a number and choose one randomly. The winner will be contacted via email and will have 24 hours to reply with their shipping address. If you do not reply, I will move onto the next random number, in the last contest it was hard to give free stuff away, so be sure to check your email! If you can’t wait for the contest to end, you can purchase one here.

Just like yesterday�s article about winning and giving away an 80gb hard drive, today I am writing this article to enter a contest to try to win a Canon digital camera that I will in turn give away here on Randomn3ss in a contest of some sort.

This contest is being done by the stay at home dad, geek style, a blog about, well a stay at home dad who does geeky things. Never hearing of the site, I took a few minutes to get familiar with it. Most of the articles have to do with geeky things Mike does at home while raising his daughter, no big surprise. What�s nice and refreshing is that the site is actually well put together and an easy read. Not being a parent, I can�t associate too much with all of the content, but his writing is above average and more importantly, tells his story.

The stay at home dad digital give-away is a Canon SD750 digital camera, 7.1mp of digital goodness. Not a slouch of a prize, retail is around $260 on this thing. Additionally, the winner will receive a SmugMug Pro Account that has a value of $150 and a $30 credit with them. 15 runners up will receive a SmugMug Power User Account valued at $60 and a $10 credit with them. Should I win the grand prize or be one of the 15 runners up, I will be giving the prize away to one of the readers of Ramdon3ss, so please wish me, and you luck.

So here�s the deal.� I read a lot of blogs daily, more than I probably should.� Some of them give away prizes, oooo we like prizes.� This is usually done so that the owner of the blog can get more traffic to their site and / or because they have a sponsor to plug that is paying for the prize.

Today I ran across Geeky Speaky, a blog about, and well geeky things.� They are giving away a 80gb portable hard drive & a DVD, see the details here.

What does this have to do with any of the readers here?� By me writing this post, I�ve been entered into the contest.� If I�m lucky enough to win either of the prizes, I will be in turn doing a contest here, with [hopefully] the 80gb portable hard drive as the giveaway.� Evil huh?

The contest is running until the end of August over at Geeky Speaky, I�ll update this should I happen to win and come up with some crazy way to give it away to the readers here.� Wish me, and you, luck.

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