[videoblogging] Re: Video contest: $25,000 top prize! Enough for you and your favourite charity.

2008-05-05 Thread ruperthowe
Re: my/Irina's point about avoiding gaming in an online contest... The number of views/votes can help point the way to good videos, but are not the right way to choose a winner in a competition. I think Nokia have set up their competition right, and that you guys at Microsoft should change

[videoblogging] Re: Video contest: $25,000 top prize! Enough for you and your favourite charity.

2008-05-05 Thread Bill Cammack
Entertaining. http://www.microsoft.com/canada/home/contests/shareyourpassion/viewallsubmissions.aspx?vidId=d038ef22-1ff7-4e66-9c3c-acdb0cbdb750 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ruperthowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hah! :D Thanks, Irina. But it should have been so much better. The

[videoblogging] Re: Video contest: $25,000 top prize! Enough for you and your favourite charity.

2008-05-04 Thread ruperthowe
Hah! :D Thanks, Irina. But it should have been so much better. The deadline was 5am GMT last Monday morning and I remembered at 1am, just as I was finising packing up to emigrate. So I shot it at 2am in my empty house and went back to my mother-in-law's house to cut it on her PC at 4am, then ran