Entrecard Outage Giveaway Bash!
Written on October 11th, 2008 by Graham
Guess what folks? Entrecard has gotten more popular than ever, and now on a good day we cripple a few servers like we did way back before we had thousands of members on the toolbar and before we ajaxed the dashboard to let you approve/deny advertisers on a single page!
To celebrate this milestone, and to help ease the pain with the outage, we’re holding an Entrecard Outage Giveaway Bash and giving out 100,000 Credits!
To enter the contest:
Just write a review of your favorite Entrecard blogger, and publish it on your blog! Link back to it here, in the comments, and the entries will receive:
1 Grand Prize: 30,000 credits!
2 Mid Prizes: 20,000 credits!
3 runner up prizes: 10,000 credits!
Entries will be judged on creativity, quality of review, quality of constructive feedback, with a little of the overall quality of the blog entering factoring in. Winners will be awarded Tuesday so don’t wait!
Get ready! Get set! Blog!
(oh and please forgive our Critical Load outage, scheduled to occur tonight 10/11 @ around 8:50 PM PST)
October 11th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Ohhh…am I the first?
My blog review is up. I reviewed Untreatable’s Blog. The post URL is http://maritzia.consecrated-life.org/wp-admin/post-new.php?posted=180
October 11th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
If the servers are taking abuse, why not boost the criteria to something like one post per month? Any spam site can put up 4 posts per year and any active blog should be posting at least once per month anyhow.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
We’ll get the spam blogs anyway, whether or not they’re making 4 posts per year.
We can’t boost it to once a month. Sometimes, priorities in life shift, and you can’t get to your blog for a month or two. It’s ok, and we don’t feel like that’s a good reason to tell people they’re not allowed to belong to Entrecard.
October 11th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Maritzia,
The link you posted is wrong. It is actually http://maritzia.consecrated-life.org/2008/10/11/untreatables-blog-a-review/
October 11th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Hey Graham
Good to see good things happen to go people
I’m going to append a post I just made on
http://potpolitics.com/2008/10/11/web-30-is-in-effect-get-on-board/
It’s going to mention the contest and that I met one of my best blogging buddies right on here a few months back,his name is Tony Cathey and his blog is http://imablogger.net. I have seen never a blogger work as hard and take a blogs stats by storm. So that is just another one of the many ways I have benefited from being a member her for almost a year.
Hey give my credits to Tony so he can get a new entrecard ad I told him that one was ugly but he don’t listen
Thanks for everything
Peace
PS My post will be modified in 5 mins Thanks
October 12th, 2008 at 11:13 am
What if I am my favourite EntreCard blogger? Can I review myself?
October 12th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Finally a contest that I could enter. Here is my submission:
http://connectwithyourteens.blogspot.com/2008/10/media-morgue-great-site-for-movie.html
October 12th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Hi Graham,
Thanks for running this contest. You really work hard, don’t you!!!
Here’s my entry:
http://greenerpastures.responsiblepersonalfinance.com/2008/10/12/church-of-blog-october-12th-2008/
After reading the above comments: I still think you should only allow blogs that post regularly. I would up it to a minimum of once per week if it were me.
Best,
Lisa
October 12th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I just posted about a fellow designer and fellow entrecarder that I think has a great site and great design talent.
October 12th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Of course you cannot review yourself! That would be in poor taste! Common guy!
October 12th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I did a post on monkey fables and tales.
http://adsforblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/monkey-fables-and-tales.html
October 13th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Are we allowed to have people recommend themselves to us? If someone were to mail me, I’d write about them.
October 13th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Sure, people can recommend themselves
October 13th, 2008 at 11:53 am
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October 13th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Blog about my favourite Entrecard blogger -> here.
October 13th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Looking forward to hearing who the winners are…
…and then hitting them up for some entrecredits.
Seriously though, good luck to everyone who entered.
October 13th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Well, here goes, my first entry in a contest.
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6874977818835407477&postID=7607800484846819962
That’s the link to my post.
October 13th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Well there is my entry about http://www.thedirtyt.com blog! Good Luck everyone who entered!
October 13th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
http://senoload.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-many-choicesbut-there-is-one.html is where I posted about this topic and my favorite EC blogger.
October 13th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Thanks, ImpNerd. Some days the fibromyalgia hits just right and I don’t get a clear thought through my head all day. I appreciate you posting the correct link for me!
October 13th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Wow, looks like you just had to enter to win.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I just found out about the contest, so I wrote a quick post about my favorite blog… CelebrityWorld.
You can read it at:
http://theresasez.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-review-celebrityworld-covers-your.html
October 14th, 2008 at 4:01 am
I hope I am not to late for the contest, whatever it was fun writing it anyway. The Blog I have chosen is “A Postcard a Day.”
My entry can be found here:
http://www.my-thai-friend.com/2008/10/favourite-entrecard-blog.html
October 14th, 2008 at 4:31 am
I did a review on “How Is Bradley?. Please find it here.
http://gotakeittothelimit.blogspot.com/2008/10/lesson-from-bradley.html
Thanks
October 14th, 2008 at 6:30 am
Thank you to EC. Since I’m blogging about 1 year, I know many blogger friends and most of them from the dropping. EC really GREAT.
My favorite EC blogger Bonoriau.com
October 14th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Please find my review of one of my favorite blogs on EC on thefollowing address:
http://gotakeittothelimit.blogspot.com/2008/10/lesson-from-bradley.html
Thank you
October 14th, 2008 at 10:52 am
I just wrote a review of what has quickly become my favorite blog… Blogging MoRe.
Please check out my review at:http://terrymarshworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-review-blogging-more-combines.html
October 14th, 2008 at 10:54 am
I just wrote a review of what has quickly become my favorite blog… Blogging MoRe.
Please check out my review at:
http://terrymarshworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-review-blogging-more-combines.html
October 14th, 2008 at 10:58 am
here is the review, sincerely hope you guys like it and will check the blog out
http://headforabetterworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/my-favorite-blog.html
October 14th, 2008 at 11:27 am
I posted a comment earlier but it never showed up, and comments written after mine have so I thought I would try again.
My review is of Daisy the Curly Cat’s blog. You can view it here:
http://blog.leisawatkins.com/daisy-the-curly-cat-always-makes-my-day/
~ Leisa
October 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I did my review for Claire, A Little Piece of Me. http://www.thegrrl.com/2008/10/claire-tribute.html
October 14th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
forget the giveaway,that is nothing but a bribe. I want to know that there is something being done to provent further outages.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Sure, we can prevent future outages easily enough, we’ll just have to charge everyone $10 a month.
Keep in mind this is a free service.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Here’s a review of one of my favorite blogs by a blogger who has actually published a book. Here’s the link.
http://redpinemountain.blogspot.com/2008/10/spotlight-on-my-funny-dad-harry.html
October 14th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
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October 15th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Yeah, what Graham said. It’s easy to forget we get all this for free. I get as frustrated as anyone with the server issues, but it certainly can’t be cheap to keep all this running without a stream of money coming in from subscriptions or investors, as other sites may have.
Grats to all the winners above, by the way.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
It looks like there has been a smooth increase in Entrecard usage over time. The phenomenon is quite appealing because it applies to many different types of individuals that would want to bring viewership to their site.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
It too has brought be a general, over all, increase in traffic.
But the increase from people who just drop & run is the highest.
October 18th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
slick. that unique visitors graph looks promising.