mmmTALK FORUMS August Contest!

Alright here is information on how the contest for August is going to work. This was put together with the help of a fellow mmmTalk user.
The contest will go like this. We (Stratz of mmmTalk’s Admin) want everyone to help promote mmmTalk forum. So we have devised a point system for helping us advertise. [...]

So you want to be a famous Agilist? Here’s Your Chance.

The Details….
Create an advertisement or other short video – your Advert – that has something to do with Agile Development.  The shorter the better, with ~30 seconds being optimal.  The subject matter can be anything – so your Advert can be funny, serious, ridiculous, whatever.  Have fun.
How it works:

Create your Agile Advert video
Upload [...]

Suggest The Best Wordpress Theme and Win!

Cornerscribe is having some serious difficulty choosing a new Wordpress theme, so they are throwing a contest for the best theme. And no, you don’t have to create a theme to enter. If you are still wondering what Wordpress theme is all about, you might want to visit this anatomy of a Wordpresss Theme.
All suggested [...]

I want your picture on my book!

(Tom Bukowski, Tom Boellstorff irl) am holding a contest to select a picture to appear on the cover of my book Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human, which will be published in April 2008 by Princeton University Press. This book is an anthropological study of [...]

BBC suspends all phone-in contests

LONDON - The British Broadcasting Corp. said Wednesday it was suspending all phone-in contests and interactive quizzes after an investigation exposed several rigged competitions.
The BBC, which has been battered by revelations about bogus contests and doctored footage, said an internal inquiry found that “a small number of production staff … have passed themselves off [...]

Dream of retirement and win RM10,000

To show it appreciates your thoughts, AXA AFFIN Life Insurance is giving away not a penny, but RM50,000! The money will be shared equally among five readers of theSun who share their retirement dreams, insightfully and creatively, in a new contest themed “Freedom at 50″.
Organised by the insurance company, the contest is being held in [...]

Phone-in scam - BBC Got Fined!

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s BBC was ordered to pay an unprecedented 50,000 pound ($100,000) fine on Monday over a faked phone-in contest on its flagship children’s TV show.
The BBC was guilty of serious breaches of the broadcasting code by allowing a young studio guest to pose as a fake competition winner on the programme [...]