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Contest: WordPress.com “Golden Ticket” invite

October 10, 2005 by in Contest with 9 Comments

WordPress.com. Have you heard about the service? It’s a fully hosted weblogging service powered by WordPress. It’s only like the hottest thing on the weblogging scene! It’s like, invite only. And it’s super elite. And it’s going to blow the likes of LiveJournal, TypePad, and Blogger out of the water.

Whoever receives this sacred invite will get all the blogging goodness offered by WordPress, without the hassle of having to setup your own domain & hosting. You get a snazzy http://username.wordpress.com URL, posts, trackbacks, comments, a WYSIWYG editor, and blogging street cred!

Here’s the catch: Due to the fact that these invites are scarce, I’m not going to pass this out willy-nilly to anyone. You have to have profound / serious intentions of using the service as it was meant to be used. That means no spam blogs or the like. My eyes water just thinking about this invite going to waste. You’ll probably want to make sure that the content you plan on posting is appropriate. I’ve learned that inappropriate content equals account closure.

This “contest” requires that you submit one sample post in the comments. Pretend the invite is already yours and you’re creating your first WordPress.com post. It can be about anything. Personal interests, your day, your problems, pet peeves, your ex, ect. The most intriguing post wins. Quality people. I expect perfection… Ergh, you get my drift. Sound fair? I think so.

The contest closes on Oct. 24th. I don’t want this invite going stale.

Update 9/16/05: Congrats to Carlos… a new member of the WordPress.com family.


  • d

    Well then, worth a shot.
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    Hello everybody, this is going to be a start of something big! Well, yeah big – the normal guy is blogging his normal life. Genius! So, my day; not much happened, usuall dogs fighting, dogs peeing, me eating, me working, me scratching. Blah Blah. Off to Ikea tommorow, gonna get me a new desk for the ‘pooter, perhaps it will increase my work load – pfft yeah, likely. I really use commas too often. Untill tommorow, goodbye! Oh, by the way thanks to the guys at uneasysilence.com for the invite – i’ve been a reader for a while, and will continue to do so.

    toodles.

  • chad

    I still don’t see the attraction of the blog

  • http://uneasysilence.com Derek Punsalan

    Well I think the idea of having a fully hosted (ad-free) WordPress weblog only appeals to those who are looking for it.

  • johnny

    Man. School season has begun once again. Another summer come and gone. With the addition of 500 new freshmen to hassle and tourment, they stopped serving Alfy’s pizza and moved the pop machines upstairs. Now I have to work to get my sugar beverage. What gives? pffft. On the first day of class I used my remote control watch and was turning the TV on and blasting the static noise while the teacher was introducing himself. I passed it around to all my friends and the teacher just couldnt figure it out, well, until he unplugged the TV, that intelligent bastard.

    We went to Seattle yesterday to go skateboarding at the famous Garfield High (Seattle) handrails and my friend got mugged by some huge black guy and left $105 short handed. The dude had a gun and everything. hey. if you are reading this you mugger: suck it fool. Ok, well I have to go take a monster dump now. I had mad Taco bell today. THANK YOU DETROIT!!!

    -jjjjjjj…….

  • http://spaces.msn.com/members/cheazles/ Chi

    Something like this would be my first post:
    So…I’ve been highly intrigued by WordPress for a good few months now. Loads of people from neowin.net use it and they’re blogs always look so damn good compared to mine. Quite frankly, MySpace is crap and ads annoy the hell out of me so I’ve been hunting around looking for clues on how to get started with WordPress. Unfortunately it was a little more complicated than I would have liked. First time I downloaded it – “Eh? PHP? MySql?” so rather promptly deleted it. Then I saw more blogs powered by WordPress so I downloaded it again – “Oh, so I need a webhost that supports PHP and MySQL thingies then I’m good to go”. While my understanding increased a little, it didn’t make sense for me to part with my hard earned cash for a webhost. This is primarily because I don’t have a portfolio of photoshopped designs and other assorted things to share. If I was a design genius, I would certainly pay to display my work. So I deleted the files again.

    I then stumbled across WordPress.com. The solution to my blogging woes! It’s something like eblogger and MySpace but it’s powered by WordPress! Unfortunately it was invite only. The power of Google then led me to a site called uneasysilence.com whose owner was giving an invitation away to the worthiest of first posts of blogs.

    So here, feast your eyes on my good looking blog. I’ve been laying MySpace to waste so hopefully now that I’ve got something more interesting to look at and with the increased powers of customisation (courtesy of WordPress) I’ll update more regularly.

  • Carlos

    A bit humorous first post:

    Well, I’ve been 19 for 2 weeks now, and I must say, I’m not enjoying it. There are many reasons why 19 and several other ages suck. Let me begin.

    The first age that completely sucks is 17. Your last year as a juvenile. You now get to wait a year to become 18, finally legal, meaning you can be tried as an adult for crimes. Not good. Get your illegal stuff out of the way now.

    Once you hit 18, you’re free to buy all the cigarettes and porn that you like. Nothing too major.

    Now, 19. 19 sucks a big one because I have gained ZERO new rights. Not only that, it is the last of the teen years. A full year of waiting to hit 20 so I can start feeling old.

    Once you’ve reached 20, you now have the privilege of waiting another year to turn 21, to finally earn the last of your rights.

    At 21, you then go nuts and get drunk legally. Fun.

    After that mess, we’ve got 17 years until we get to turn 39. At 39, one must suffer the hell of preparing to turn 40. Women do not take 39 well.

    When you’ve finally hit 40, you have a good 9 years to relax until you near 50. At 50, the hell of being “half-a-century” old starts to creep in and does no one any good. Can you imagine your friends giving you crap for being “half-a-century” old? “You’re half-way to a hundred man!” Not cool!

  • http://sfong15.blogspot.com Stanley

    I like your header image, it’s not easy to keep silence.

    What I will do is to move 3 blogs I have current with blogspot. They are OK but standstill even with the amount of cash Google got from IPO, what a shame. WordPress is different, you can see lots of people contributing, improving it and that’s all the fun apart from expressing myself loud in the blogosphere.

    Here I’m in this first post at wp.com, I’ll start moving houses, stay tuned.

  • http://www.1-in-car-seat-covers.com Car Seat Cover

    This is a good looking site!

  • http://afab.nl/index.phtml lenen

    I like what you did with the design of your blog! Compliments. Regards, Albert.

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