I don’t know about his one, but Google sociable. Sociable is a plugin which adds allthat but with icons.

I just know that every “drawing” that I have seen where the most popular person won, even if I had trusted the contest blogger before it gives me that sketchy feeling and then I question the motives whenever I read it again, if I go back.

I think video is a decent method and can also be good to get a bit more viral chatter about results as well. I mean as corny as some of the result videos we have seen on the chow have been, it’s still a bit entertaining and more believable than some random post.

Regardless though, none of that has anything to do with this specific contest and it’s definitely a great prize. Good luck to everyone!

What social bookmarking plugin do you use at the end of your posts?

It is general feeling across the blogosphere. The luckier big guns get lucky every day. Others just go home.

Neil has also gone for the better option. But I think Randomizer is also screwed (for eg. you can never get an one digit number as a random number).

The good old method of printing out the numbers and getting someone to draw the lot (and video-graphing it) is better option. You can cheat here too.

Just make sure you don’t cheat, even if others would. (I will not, on December 18 morning).

When it comes down to it, “drawing” a big name as the winner is good for business because odds are they will blog about winning your comp and you get more exposure for your investment. But sucks for those that actually think they have a chance for a “random” drawing.

*not saying this is one of those at all, just that I have seen it a bit too often to get excited about these things anymore.