Contagious Media Showdown competition

Showdown contagius media showdown is sortof a viral award, except it doesn't suck. Entries may not be paid work, like those virals advertising a commercial product, or promoted with bots, text ads or seeded at seeding places, like Kontraband. The work has to spread on merit alone, and on the Showdown Ranking page you can see what is rising to the top.

Webhead injokes like the magazine Blogebrity is neck to neck with the apple + blogger switch AutoBlogger.net. AutoBlogger integrates seamlessly into your journaling software, allowing a busy writer to do things that other internet nerds only dream about. Go out on dates. Take an extended vacation. Turn off your computer for a few hours and spend a lazy weekend just sipping lemonade in your back yard. Followed by Crying While Eating

What he's eating:
Double-chocolate milano cookies

What he's crying about:
Sex will never be that good again

Go down the list, you're bound to find something that amuses you. Or not. The Grand Prize in this competition is 2000 US Dollars.

YesButNoButYes has also written about this and taken the time to review a few more entries, among them the Ringtone Dancer which imho would have been funnier had he been summoned by more than one inane ringtone-tune. YesButNoButYes even go so far as to have continuing coverage of the competition and will gossip about entries going up and down the the score board as the game evolves. As YBNBY points out, the most amusing thing about this game so far is that several 'media outlets' (read: other blogs) have fallen for the games as if they were the real deal. Suckers. Or perhaps they're just in on the joke? Hard to tell these days. Adrants: OMG! New Blog Magazine to Launch!, Adrants: Paris Hilton promotes Jeff bridges.