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Al "The Computer Dude" Jordan created a contest at his ElwoodIndiana.org site that I thought was worth a mention. He's giving away $50 to a member of the site. The winner (with the best decorated house in the small city of 5,000 households) will be voted on by the members of the site. I'm not sure how he's going to handle the voting yet, but it's a great idea and I wish him the best of luck. I should be doing something similar on AFP, but I've switched gears for a while to earn some cash. (Not as bad as I was last year, pre-print, but I'm still working "on the side" a lot to keep things going. Things are going good, though. We spiked at over 5,000 visits the day after the election. Not all local, but it was interesting to see. Anyway, go check out EIO and the contest. I'll try to update when he has entries posted.

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That's Kris Ockomon, Mayor of Anderson, Indiana in Madison County.

I've been super busy of late, but I wanted to mention the success my friend Al Jordan is having over at ElwoodIndiana.org. He recently asked for help and had a couple trustworthy and hardworking citizens step forward to moderate anonymous comments. His site's really taken off since earlier this year.

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Wow. What a day. I went out a little before noon to cover the 10th annuel Character Counts celebration in downtown, Anderson. About three or four hours after returning from the event (with photos, video and information...) here's look at The Herald Bulletin's homepage and the Anderson Free Press homepage. Keep in mind that I'm one person and they have a lot of resources at their disposal.

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