Thanks to everyone who has particiapted in this week’s Group Writing Project.
It is now officially closed for submissions (I’ve been waiting for parts of the Pacific to get to the end of Thursday). Below are the final 63 submissions which brings the total number of participants this week to 301!
It’s amazing what offering prizes will do (although I think it’s also about this week’s project being a bit more accessible than previous ones in terms of topic).
Speaking of prizes – our wonderful sponsors of this week’s project (The Gold Pages Directory, The Umdum.com Web Directory, URLTrends , Blake Schwendiman and Earners Forum) have each donated a gift (see below for details). Now that the week is complete I’m going to draw the prizes. This will take me an hour to do so look out for a post shortly with this week’s winners.
In the mean time – here are the last round of reader submissions (the full list of all 301 submissions are here):
- The Five Questions You Should Never Ask by Tooz
- 5 Things to do when in Cebu by Marien
- NY Times my arse… Here is where I get my news by Jay
- Q&A: Low vs. High pathogenic Avian Influenza by Grace
- 5 links to calorie-conscious fitness by Fitness Mantra
- 3 Problems Business Bloggers Face by Ahmed
- Sixteen Scintillating Short Story Starters by Trevor
- 7 Usability WordPress Plugins by Thomas
- Top 10 Reasons To Find an Event Planner for your Next Party by Kia
- List of Hello Kitty Vehicles by Lina
- Four Kinds of Money Making Websites You can Start By Yourself by Peter
- 101 Questions… Consumer, Political, Humorous and Starbucks by Doug
- Buying a Car the Right Way by Matt
- ‘Move your bowels’ and other sage travel (writing) tips by MaxPower
- Using Insect Repellent on Children | 10 Safety Tips by Repellent Review
- She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not? by Kloudiia
- Seven signs that you should move to France – or stay at home by Britt
- 5 Ways of Marketing Salvation by Richard
- Non-Profit Websites by Darren
- Best of Small Biz Survival by Becky
- Top 12 Cameras of All Time: A Photo Enthusiast’s Perspctive [2006] by The Other Martin Taylor
- Seven Things Not to Do on a Plane by Andy
- Wedding songs for the despair Generation by Jill
- 5 Ways to Use MySpace to Reach Your Readers by Dee
- My Top 10 Favorite Firefox Extensions by John
- How to Gain weight without really trying (and the antitheses) by Sally
- 31 Emoticons to woo your online loves by Kelly
- 5 games industry job interview tips by Rick
- The 11 New Fall Shows I can’t Wait to See by Adam
- Four most Influential British Prime Ministers by Paul
- List of Mouse Games by Indrax
- You Must be an Artist If… by Marion
- Post 9/11 Neologies by Andy
- A few handy EPL team facts by Bill
- Best Current Deals, Promotions, and Sign Up Bonuses by Jason
- Top Ten Reasons to Love Digital Gold by Jim
- Five reasons why you should always buy in lots by Danielle
- 5 Ways to Improve your Affiliate Sales by Chris
- You Know That Blogging is Taking Over Your Life When… by Kailani
- Pillar Articles to Write about the Art of Creating a Joyful Life by Linda
- She Lists a Bit off Center by Carol
- Where is my Ovary? by Baggage
- 10 Essential Ways to Improve Your Profile as a Blogger by Susan
- Five Reasons Why Mornings Rock by Health Hacker
- 4 Ways to More Romance by jldude
- 10 Blogs You Should be Reading by SB
- Making a Site Inaccessible – Things I used to Do by Phil
- Graphical Visualization – Making Sense Out of Data by Jim
- 5 Reasons to Put Off Living With Your Girlfriend by Joseph
- Things You Learn from Anime by Alan
- 10 Ways to Have a Horrible Seminar by Sue
- The 10 Things We did to Erase almost $9,000 in Credit Card Debt in Less than 6 Months by Tricia
- Nine of My Favorite WordPress Plugins by Sarah
- 10 Indispensable (and Free) Web Resources for Students by Jamie
- Keeping Sociable on Long Trips by Dana
- 10 Easy Ways to Save Money in Restaurants by Anthony
- The A-Z of RSS by Scott
- What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting It by Molly
- Ten Ways to Spot a Scam by The Wandering Author
- Yazarken Dikkat Ettiğim Kurallar by Utku Tönel
- 7 Personal Finance Tips by Tim
- Top 13 Black Comedies by andi
- 5 Books That Made Me an Optimistic Environmentalist by Steve
Prizes:
- URLTrends have kindly donated a Premium upgraded account worth $90 that will help them track their search engine ranking over time. Thanks to Joel Strellner for this donation.
- The Umdum.com Web Directory have donated a Sinic Eye and Brain Massager (just what every ProBlogger needs). They’ve also kindly offered every participant in this week’s group writing project a free listing in their directory. Thanks to Loren Baker for this donation.
- Blake Schwendiman has donated a $100 gift voucher from Amazon to be used in any way that they see fit. Thanks Blake!
- Earners Forum have kindly donated a new Dell PC and LCD monitor – to the value of $500. Earners Forum is a great place for discussions around all kinds of topics of earning money online. Thanks to Lee Dodd for this donation.
- The Gold Pages Directory has donated $500 in digital cash that can be spent on products and services or withdrawn to a prepaid ATM card and used as cash. The Gold Pages Directoryis the largest online currency/digital gold directory on the web and is now three years old. Thanks to Mark Herpel for this donation.
Some of todays lists are amazing, I love the “you know blogging is taking over your life..” article.
Great work everyone! Very entertaining.
Awesome contest Darren, out of the last round I thought the “7 personal finance tips” was a good one. http://www.mymoneyforest.com/7-personal-finance-tips/ I hope we do another one of these really soon. Have a good weekend everyone.
Another interesting mix of different lists and ideas…. Can’t wait to see what’s in these!!
http://joshmaher.wordpress.com/2006/08/14/top-ten-reasons-you-should-not-blog/
301 entries, holy crap, Darren. Tell me: what did you realistically expect to receive?
No matter who wins the prizes, at the end of the day we all win if different ways – lots of link love and commeting going on. Lots of new blogs I’ve found and added to my rss reader.
Darren, you hit a massive home run with this one – great stuff, mate.
The link to 5 Ways to Use MySpace to Reach Your Readers by Dee
is pointing to the article below it (My Top 10 Favorite Firefox Extensions by John). So, John has a link to his article that is correct and another one from Dee’s article. And Dee has no links.
Man it must be early. I can’t tell if that makes sense or not. Let me know if I’m not making sense.
Wow, over 300 submissions! What an incredible response. I spent hours this morning sorting through these again. I’m glad this go round is done….I have work to get done! Here is my last list of lists that caught my attention…
http://survivingnj.blogspot.com/2006/08/last-list-of-lists-that-caught-my.html
Is there any better, or easier blog software out there than this? i need something php based that doesnt kill MySQL. Any techie types on this thread that can point me in the right direction?