The other two already announced contests are:

1. The Easiest $42 You’ll Ever Make

This contest is super easy. All you have to do is comment on the linked post (remember to leave your e-mail so we can contact you if you win – no spam, ever, we promise). That’s it. No linking, tweeting or any other -ing required. Just write a simple comment on that post and you’re automatically entered to win $42, sent via paypal. The contest ends on April 8th at noon (EST) so hurry up and write a comment!

2. Win a Pair of Boston Celtics Playoff Tickets

As The 42nd Estate is based in Boston, Massachusetts, we’re obviously big fans of the Boston sports teams (heck, we even have a sports blog focused on Boston sports). Two of our members are also season ticket holders for the world champion Boston Celtics and we decided to giveaway our first pair of playoff tickets!

To enter, become our fan on The 42nd Estate’s facebook® page. As soon as the playoff scenario for the Celtics is set in stone, we’ll pick one fan at random and award them a pair of playoff tickets to either the first or second home playoff game.

There you have it, two super easy to enter contests and another prize to come that will be given out via twitter.

EDIT: The Twitter contest is now live. A free portable iPhone charger! Retweet this tweet to enter. Contest ends Monday, April 6, 2009 at 5PM.

Last month I wrote about a huge contest giving out tons of awesome wordpress themes at Blog Oh Blog. Well, I was one of the lucky winners and have chosen the uber-popular and nice Thesis theme. I’m quite pumped as I’d considered purchasing Thesis in the past as it’s a very nice and flexible theme. I’ll let you all know what I think of the theme soon.

The premium theme prizes:

• Arthemia Premium Theme from Colorlabsproject.com – $70
• Chimera Premium Theme from Themespinner.com – $59
• WPRemix 2 from Wpremix.com – $75
• Thesis Premium Theme from Diythemes.com – $87
• Revolution – Real Estate from Revolutiontheme.com - $59.95
• Fresh Folio from Woothemes.com – $70
• On Demand Premium Theme from Press75.com – $75
• Braincast Premium Theme from Storelicious.com – $79.90
• Jobpress Premium Theme from Dailywp.com – $59
• Fresh News Premium Theme from Woothemes.com – $70
• WpShowcase from Gabfire.com – $59

Adding up the regular price of each of these premium wordpress themes, the contest is worth over $700! Granted, each winner only receives one theme but that makes it even better deal as everyne has a great chance at winning.

Entering is easy and requires two steps.

1. Sign up for Blog Oh Blog’s RSS feed.
2. Write about the contest (with a link to the contest, of course).

That’s it! Pretty easy, eh?

So head over to Blog Oh Blog and join the contest (or don’t the less competition the better).

Pax.

Personally, I’ve donated 3 months of free 125 x 125 ads on this blog to the contest AND The 42nd Estate has donated $42 in cold, hard, cash (in U.S. dollars).

Here’s the full list of sponsors and prizes:

Platinum Sponsor

• Jay Green & The Balesio Team (http://www.balesio.com) donating:

1. 1 Copy Of “ALLCapture Enterprise 3.0″ Screen Recording Suite – $344 USD Value
2. 2 Copies Of “ALLCapture” Screen Recorder – $466 USD (combined) Value
3. 8 Copies Of “PPTMinimizer” Powerpoint Compression (up to 98%) – $331 USD (Combined) Value

Gold Sponsors

• Fresh Never Frozen Web Design (http://freshneverfrozendesign.com) donating:

1. 2 Custom Blog Designs – $300 USD (combined) Value
2. 1 Hour Blog/Website Design Session Consultation – $49 USD Value

• Carlocab (http://carlocab.com) donating:

1. 5 Copies of Direct Response Templates for Minisite Design – $185 USD Value

• Logo Design Team (www.LogoDesignTeam.com) donating:

1. A Best Seller – Logo Design Package – $149 USD Value

• Scot (http://www.revvenue.com) donating:

1. 1 Hour “Adsense Tutoring” Session – $39 USD Value
2. $30 Gift Certificate to Starbucks – $30 USD Value

• Corey Freeman (http://www.deadlyclever.com) donating:

1. A Logo Design Package From Deadly Cleaver – $99 USD Value
2. Blogroll Link on Diligent Design – $5 USD Value

• Adam Pieniazek (http://adamp.com) donating:

1. 3 Months of 125×125 Advertising On His Sidebar – $20 USD Value
2. $42 Cash Prize from the42ndEstate.com

• David Leonhardt (http://SEO-writer.com) donating:

1. Copy Of “Don’t Get Banned By The Search Engines” Ebook – $40 USD Value
2. Top 52 S.E.O. Tips Sheet – $10 USD Value

• Peter Lee (http://www.peterleehc.com) donating:

1. Copy Of “Quit Being a Wage Slave in 10 Easy Steps” Ebook – $49 USD Value

• Blogupp Team (http://www.blogupp.com/) donating:

1. 50 000 BlogUpp Impressions – N/A Value

• Hugo Santos (http://bloggervenue.com) donating:

1. 3 125×125 ads on his sidebar (1 month) – $20 USD (combined) Value
2. 3 Text Link Ads – $19 USD (combined) Value

• Dan And Marsh (http://www.giveawaycity.blogspot.com) donating:

1. 2GB Kingston Data Traveler (USB Storage Drive) – $29 USD Value

• Pam Hawk (http://www.passitonplates.com) donating:

1. A “Pass It On Plate Lite” Edition (See This For More Details) – $29 USD Value

Silver Sponsors

• AnotherMMOBlog (http://www.anothermmoblog.com/) donating:

1. 2 x 1 Month Text Link Ad
2. 1 Month 125×125 Sidebar Ad

• Lhurey (http://www.phblogger.net) donating:

1. 2500 Entrecard Credits

• Tim Johnson (http://www.yimto.com) donating:

1. 2000 Entrecard Credits

• Yan (http://thoushallblog.com) donating:

1. 1000 Entrecard Credits from Wpbeginners.com
2. 1 Month Text Link Ad on his blog – Thoushallblog.com

• Hussein (http://www.niessuh.com) donating:

1. 125×125 Ad On His Sidebar For 2 Months

• Marvie Pons (http://underscore30.blogspot.com) donating:

1. 125×125 Ad On His Sidebar For A Month

• Indo Contest (http://www.indocontest.com/) donating:

1. 468×60 Ad On His Header For A Month

• Multiply Themes (http://marviepons.blogspot.com/) donating:

1. 1000 Entrecard Credits

• Charles (http://piggybankpie.com/) donating:

1. 1000 Entrecard Credits

• NHC (http://themelib.com) donating:

1. 1 Month Text Link Ad

• Rajaie AlKorani (http://RajaieTalks.com) donating:

1. 1 Month Text Link Ad

• Sharon Hart (http://sharonahart.blogspot.com) donating:

1. 1 Month Text Link Ad

Wow, that’s a TON of prizes!

I’m now using CommentLuv on this blog, and we also use it at The 42nd Estate and are planning on installing it at We Demand Videos! and at the freshly launched OTIBR. I know several of my readers also use CommentLuv and I want to make sure everyone knows of a contest going on at WPMU.org to choose the best wordpress plugin. If you use and love CommentLuv as much as I do, please head on over to WPMU.org and vote (once!) for CommentLuv as your favorite plugin.

Oh, and if you don’t like CommentLuv, well then your vote’s not welcome! Just kidding, but seriously, what’s not to luv?

Also, while evaluating Sezwho, I’ve also decided to keep the Entrecard system up for now. Entrecard will now be rewarding users for thoughtful comments (based on the comments’ rating) with Entrecard credits, which I think is a much better system than clicking drop on other people’s cards. If you’re subscribed via the RSS feed [and if you're not subscribed, sign up today!] then the new comment rating system should not affect your feed viewing. Remember, using the Sezwho ratings is completely voluntary but if you have any issues with it, please let me know!

So, if you’d like to help me, please subscribe to this blog. You can subscribe via e-mail or RSS/Atom. My promise to you is to write the best articles I can over the next 30 days and beyond. I am also considering having a contest of my own exclusively for my subscribers so sign up now to make sure you don’t miss out!

So the big grand prize winner is…

Sherry from sherry rambling! Congratulations!

Unfortunately, my screen capture of the the results from random.org glitched out on me and did not save so I cannot correctly award the runner up prizes, which were shout-outs to the contestants blogs via a link from this blog. As such, here are all of the contestants blogs:

• Blog2u Philippines
• The Nonsense Blog
• LiveWire News
• Google Adsense Videos
• TLE Travels the World
• Entrecard Contest

I will also be sending each of the above blogs a small sum (10-20) of Entrecard credits to make up for the error. Hopefully that is a good consolation prize!

Thanks to everyone for participating!

Also, Graham Langdon, the founder of Entrecard, dropped by the other day and hinted at a big announcement on the Entrecard front so I might stay with the Entrecard community depending on the announcement. In either case, the contest will go on. Good luck to everyone involved and thanks to everyone for the great turnout so far!

If you haven’t yet, make sure to drop a comment on the Entrecard contest post for a chance to win all my EC credits. If you write a blog post about the contest you get ten times as many chances to win (make sure to let me know about your post via e-mail or comment)!

Right now I have 912 953 1,000 Entrecard credits in my account and will let the remaining ads run out before closing my account. There are two ways to enter this Entrecard credits contest. First, simply leave a comment below (make sure to fill in your e-mail address) and you will get one entry into the contest. Second, if you write a blog post about this contest with a link back to this post you will get ten entries (make sure to send me an e-mail or leave a comment pointing me to your blog post). The contest will run for one week, ending on July 2nd, 2008 at 11:59PM Boston, MA time.

At that time I will randomly choose one person to win all of my Entrecard credits! You, along with two runner ups, will also be mentioned in a winner’s blog post and receive a link back to your blogs.

Good luck to everyone!