Just in time for Christmas

As promised, we're still giving away $50 each Friday through December to a randomly-selected member of our MyBlogLog Community. This week's winner is DemoGirl, a prolific creator of screencasts that put you behind the wheel of the latest Web applications. Best of all, she puts them together for free!

Maybe you'll put this towards a little Christmas present for yourself...

There's just one Friday left in December, so for everyone else, this is your last chance to get in on the action!

It's Friday again

Yep, another week has meandered by. Depending on what you accomplished this week, that might be a good thing or a bad one. But it's definitely good for phoenixrising, who is the second randomly drawn winner of our MyBlogLog giveaway.

To celebrate, a haiku:

MyBlogLog members,
einternet community,
a sudden windfall.

Congratulations, phoenixrising! Buy yourself something nice.

The first winner is...

The first member of our MyBlogLog community to win the giveaway that Alan announced earlier, randomly drawn from a hat (okay, it was an Excel spreadsheet), is... DJAzido.

He'll receive a fine intaglio portrait of Hiram Ulysses Grant by the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing, otherwise known as 50 bucks. 'Tis the season for giving, so we'll be doing this every Friday through December.

Everyone who's a member of our MyBlogLog community is eligible for these drawings—all you have to do is sign up!

DJAzido, enjoy the winnings!

Win $$$ w/ CWS and MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog.com continues to amaze me. You know they're hot when rumors about being aquired by Yahoo start after only a couple of months. Our community has grown from a handful of people to over 50 in a matter of a few weeks. I have even been the "Featured Member" on the members page for a couple weeks now. Thanks to the staff at MyBlogLog for doing this, especially Scott Rafer.

We've had so much success with MyBlogLog that we decided to reward our new members. We thought long and hard about what we could do to "give back" to the people who had put faith in our blog. And then we decided to have a contest! Yes... a contest to give stuff away. Everyone loves free stuff, right?

To show our appreciation, we're going to randomly give away $50 to a member of our community EVERY Friday (through January 1st). All you have to do to be eligible to win is be a member of our blog community. We'll randonly pick a new winner each week and let everyone know you're the big winner. It's really easy, fun, and only takes a few seconds to sign up. As an added bonus, you'll probably meet lots of other cool people from all over the world too! Check it out today.

MyBlogLog.com Increased Our Subscribers by 34%

You may have noticed that our blog has started to display the popularity of various links. In addition, we've added pictures of the most recent "registered" visitors to the right sidebar. This has all been made possible by a new blog tracking website, www.mybloglog.com.

I first noticed the link tagging on Emily Chang's eHub Blog a few days before we implemented it here. If you're a blogger, you should become familiar with their service as soon as possible. Even popular blog sites like TechCrunch have gotten on board, so you know they might be on to something.

MyBlogLog started out as a service to track where your visitors were coming from, which posts they were reading, and which links they were most interested in. All handy things to know if you're a blogger.

But it quickly evolved into a new blogging community and it's taking the net by storm. Thus far, I am very impressed with the service they offer and I think they will continue to prosper. For too long, blogs have been one-sided with very little feedback from visitors. This new service helps solve that by connecting bloggers with their readers in a community environment.

If you have a new blog, getting involved in the MyBlogLog community could increase your readership substancially. Within a few days of joining the community, we've become one of the "Top 50" blogs in the "E" directory. OK, I understand that there are 26 letters in the alphabet, but it's nice to feel loved. :) If you'd like to join the Everything Internet community you can do so here.