The Contagious Media Showdown offers cash prizes ($1k-$2k) for publishing something on the web that, basically, gets a lot of people to link to you. The competition includes categories for sites with CC licensing (attribution-sharealike), most links from blogs, and more.
So, yeah, it's basically a popularity contest. But it's interesting from a rhetorical standpoint. Unfortunately, my rhetorical audience strategies (as I told my dissertation director when the audience question came up after Stuart Selber asked it) has always been largely limited to "People just like me but who know a little bit less." This strategy has consistently made me popular with four random and always shifting grad students and my dad.
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Posted by johndan at May 7, 2005 11:46 PM | TrackBack