Carlocab.com is having a blog contest called Blogging Olympics 2008 wherein you could win cash and goodies

The official Blogging Olympics sponsors

• $25 CASH!
  Sponsored by Home Business Blog.
• $35 CASH!
  Sponsored by E-ContentSolutions.
• $35 CASH!
  Sponsored by PLRrewriting.com.
• $50 CASH!
  Sponsored by Scott Jones.
• $35 CASH!
  Sponsored by Tom Tessier.
• 10 advanced web hosting accounts for a year worth $36 each
  Sponsored by O2Host.
• Five copies of an introductory presentation to Neuro-Linguistic Programming (Physical if in the US) worth $100 each
  Sponsored by Life, Love & Learning.
• Three copies of Terry Dean’s “Email Marketing Mastery Course” (Free Shipping) worth $97 each
  Sponsored by My Email Mastery.
• Five copies of “Unstoppable Peak Performance Guide” worth $97 each
  Sponsored by Unstoppable Action.
• One three month membership to Jack Humphrey’s “Social Power Linking” worth $90
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• 3000 Entrecard credits
  Three fast passes to cut to the front of the Entrecard line
  Three featured statuses to give you the coveted gold border around your listing
  One homepage slot to give your Entrecard placement on Entrecard’s homepage
  Sponsored by Entrecard.
• 1000 Entrecard credits
  Sponored by Kiwi Pulse.
• 1000 Entrecard credits
  Sponsored by Ejobtips.
• One copy of “The Dip” by Seth Godin worth $16
  Sponsored by Money Relations.

The grand prizes

• One link bait post (500 words). This will be written, fine-tuned and then widely promoted. If done correctly, this could mean tens of thousands of visitors, new RSS subscribers, links, and more worth $150
  Sponsored by Splashpress Media.

• One blog design worth $1000
  Sponsored by Another Blog.

How to join:

• Tell me who these flag bearers are and the country they are representing - 7 tickets

• Make a blog post about this contest - 7 tickets
• Include the prize list in the blog post - 10 tickets
• Stumble this post and save it on Del.icio.us - 5 tickets
• REQUIRED Find at least one, Beijing Olympics token on my blog. You can find these tokens on other posts (Example) right after the article - 3 tickets per token found.

After doing any of the above, send an email to carl@carlocab.com (Subject “Blogging Olympics 2008?) with all the stuff you’ve done and you’re good to go!

I am totally swept away by the WP-Magazine Theme. It has stayed away from the usual or typical wordpress themes. Only a few and the wp-magazine theme has out beaten any other magazine themes in terms of properly laying out all the links without sacrificing the design. It gives the user an ease of navigation. Every elements of the design is well though of. Starting from the pages, categories. Both has drop down boxes to accommodate the subcategories and subpages. View it on Solostream theme page.

Content Layout
What more could I say, the content layout are properly laid down. The featured articles, which glides in a certain duration(by you, yes you!) is awesome. It will give so much reason for your visitors to stay on your site. There would be a lot of interesting articles from you to showcase. Plus, the recent articles layout is very much interesting and an eye catching. The interchanging colors and the images is very well designed. If I am the reader, I would surely be interested on reading those articles judging by the design.

Colors
The colors looks professional and fits any blogs of different niches. I could see a money making, sports, gaming, technology sites using this wordpress design.

Advertising
The advertisements are properly layed down and does not clutter the content at all. It properly blends in the sidenar.There are built in spaces for ads with certain sizes and you could even add more on the extra space in the sidebar.

Other Cool Features
You could activate your profile/gravatar
In the demo site, there are wonderful tutorials starting from how to add a 125x125 ads to your sidebar and adding activating your profile/gravatar
Create a SiteMap page (coolest)
There are 5 homepage options to choose from (Where could you find this?! 5 lovely layouts to choose from)
Other homepage options:

• Home page option 2
  
• Home page option 3
  
• Home page option 4
  
• Home page option 5
  

There are 4 archive pages to choose from

• Archive page option 1
  
• Archive page option 2
  
• Archive page option 3
  
• Archive page option 4
  

2 single page options to choose from
2-column version of the single post page
3-column version of the single post page



How I wish I would win this wp theme. The design is neat, simple and slick. I have another blog that totally needs a makeover right now. Having this wp theme on my other blogs would give it a professional design and I could out stand other bloggers with the same niche as mine. I would certainly recommend this

Prodinterios Birthday Bash Contest!! is having a contest to celebrate his birthday this August 15, 2008.

Prizes:

1st Place

- 1750EC by Whatever I Feel Like Blogging About
- a 2 week 125×125 Image Ad Spot by Travels in the 10/40 Window
- A One month 125×125 Image Ad Spot on My Blog
- 1000EC from Your Hand In Mine
- 1000EC from Abhishek Deshpande
- A One Month 100×100 Image Ad spot by WebbieStuffs
- A Site review from Earn More Moola

2nd Place

- 1000EC from Regretful Morning
- a One month 125×125 Image Ad Spot by Better Interpersonal Communication
- a One month 125×124 Image Ad Spot on My Blog
- A Link for one month on WebbieStuffs
- 500EC from WebbieStuffs
- A One month link at Please Entre
- 500EC from Rumbling Lankan
- 512EC from Foolsville 2.0

3rd Place

- 500EC by Travels in the 10/40 Window
- A One month link On My Blog
- 512EC from Foolsville 2.0
- 200EC from http://japanshigoto.blogspot.com/

4th Place

- 250EC by Chetan Gole
- 300EC from Coffee Tickle

How to join:

1. Comment (Required) - 1 Raffle Entry
2. Fave my blog on Technorati(Leave Username) - 3 Raffle Entries
3. Blog about this contest (Leave link with the comment) - 5Entries
4. Subscribe ( Leave Email ) - 2 Raffle Entries