Free Drinks at the Irish Blog Awards
Final Results for Round 2 of this challenge are now here.
In a recent challenge , Ken McGuire crushed all opposition by reaching 100 subscribers on Feedburner before anybody else could roll out a shameless self publicity campaign.
So , to give everybody a chance, we’re going for another round. You can join in at any point (leave a comment below to get included).
The rules are simple : The person who gets the biggest % increase in FeedBurner subscribers (that’s the number on the top right of the blog) between now and the Irish Blog Awards wins. Prize is a pint. And yes, all is fair in Love, War and trying to up your Blog numbers.
To subscribe to this blog (we really can’t afford to lose twice in a row, the price of drink in Dublin being so high), click on the Orange XML icon on the top right of this page. If you’re not automatically asked to subscribe , you may want to sign up to a service such as Bloglines. Subscribing means that you’ll automatically be updated on who is in the lead.
Due to popular demand (and the fact Damien will have 17 Squintillion subscribers before next Tuesday) we’ll probably have a round 3 after this one. If you want in , leave a comment. Remember, it’s all about the percent increase, so it’s an advantage to start small.
And the Contenders are …
| Blog | Start | Current |
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Ken McGuire Creative Imaginations | 103 | |
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Conor O’Neill- Louder Voice |
44 | |
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Aidan Finn AidanF.net | 84 | |
| James Corbett – Eirepreneur | 480 | ||
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Robin Blandford – ByteSurgery | 42 | |
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Tom Raftery – IT views | 751 | |
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Paul Browne – Technology in Plain English | 96 | |
| Richard Hearne – Red Cardinal | 85 | ||
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Thomas Holmes – YClickIt | 113 | |
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Eoghan McCage – Naive by Design | 35 | |
| Damien Mulley – Blog AwardsHonorary Lifetime Member - 1200% increase in first 24 hours |
6 | ||
| Damian O’Broin- Ask Direct | 23 |
4) In a shock last minute move:
Damien Mulley forgoes his 400+ base and opts to start again with the Irish Blog Awards feed (6 readers). Rumour has it that we may as well buy the man a pint now, while the rest of us scrap it out for second place (prize – diet coke with ice). We did say almost anything was fair game … 
5) In another shock first day wipeout: Damien Mulley has increased his total by 1200% using a little known site called the Irish Blog Awards. I’ll check the small change down the back of the sofa , buy Damien the pint, and the rest of us mere mortals can continue on to see who gets pint number 3.
Glad to see almost everybody’s numbers are up. I have a plan for this. After all, we’re not really in this for the pint (shock ! horror!).
@Thomas – I’m trying to keep the number really simple, yet fair. Maybe next time we can do ‘bigest spike in google visitors’ , although we’ll have to trust each other on that one.
@Phil – I’ll include you in the next round.
Hmmm. 50% increase on Friday and now a 30% drop. This is going to be interesting…
6 Days gone … and most people’s feeds are *down* on last week. Ok, it’s Monday so things will pick up. We’ll wrap up this round tomorrow (as Damien pretty much has it in the bag)
There is an alternative to Beer on offer for Round 3. Any suggestions on how to award the (to be revealed) prize to be fair to everyone? Thomas has suggested %age *and* absolute increase. I’m thinking of ‘craziest offer to increase stats ‘(e.g. Richard and Eoghan). What do people think?
Will probably kick round 3 off towards the end of the week.
Everyone can expect a fairly big jump in their numbers over the weekend. Google will now provide feeder numbers for both Google Reader and Google Homepage subscribers.
Previously this only showed up as a single aggregate reader. You will now see the total figure